Principal® Volunteers: Meet Holly, Product Manager

Aug 18, 2025 9:15 AM ET

Holly, product manager

  • Work passion: Boosting confidence that retirement savings will last
  • Volunteer passion: Giving cats good homes
  • Helping cats and kittens thrive

As a volunteer for the Animal Rescue League of Iowa and a founder of the nonprofit Cat Care Network, I foster kittens, trap community cats for spay/neuter, and provide food, supplies, education, and crisis support to help low-income owners keep their cats.

Connecting through a love of animals

Our shared love of pets can span across language barriers and political, class, race, age, and religious differences. My passion for cats has been an entry point to connecting with many incredible people. And, of course, so many pets need help, especially now as shelters are overflowing and struggling for funding.

Doubling my impact

I deeply appreciate Principal and the Principal Foundation supporting so many ways to help our local, national, and global communities. Their generous board match was a great incentive to create my own nonprofit. The Dollars for Doers program offered by the Principal Foundation has helped finance hundreds of spay/neuter surgeries. And the generous donor match helps further support causes important to me.

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