Up until a few weeks ago, Kelly Burley was program director at KOSU, an NPR affiliate radio station.  Upon his retirement after 26 years of that profession, he finds himself heading up a new non-profit, Save Lives-Unite Oklahoma, started and primarily funded by the Kirkpatrick Foundation.  Its goal is to combine efforts of No-Kill animal shelters across the Metro in an attempt to increase the adoption rate of shelter/rescue pets to 90% by 2025.  The new program, Save Lives, Unite Oklahoma, (SLUO) will collaborate efforts of dozens of animal shelters and using the resources of the Kirkpatrick Foundation and the efforts of Kelley's newly developing team to explore methods of increasing awareness of neuter-spay programs, vaccination before sale or adoption of any pet, more regulation of puppy-mills, and any method needed to unit rescue animals with permanent families, including more social networking, advertising, etc.  Note, The Goal of 90% or below is effectively the entire population of healthy "adoptable" animals.

Note: Unfortunately due to gross abuse, neglect and accidents there will continue to be a portion of the animal population that cannot be saved, the shelters in many cases can only make the animal as comfortable as possible.  This is the last thing No-Kill humane shelters want to be, but is unavoidable.