COFFEE AND THE CATS
Running a small local business has always required creativity, flexibility and heart.
Right now, like many independent businesses, we’re navigating higher operating costs, changing customer spending and the challenge of making every dollar work harder.
We’re making changes on our side, too — tightening expenses, adjusting operations and focusing on the parts of Coffee & the Cats that can keep this little place strong for the long haul.
For nine days, we’re inviting our community to be part of that next chapter.
🐾 OUR GOAL: $4,000 BY OCTOBER 8
And rather than simply asking for help, we’ve created several ways to participate — all of which give you something back.
BUY A GIFT CARD
Planning to visit us again anyway?
Purchase a Coffee & the Cats gift card now and use it later for coffee, food, Kitty Cove visits and more.
You help us today. You enjoy it later.
JOIN THE NINE LIVES MEMBERSHIP PROGRAM
Become part of our new limited Nine Lives Membership Program and receive special benefits while helping us build more predictable support for the future.
Membership quantities are limited.
VISIT, PLAY OR COME TO AN EVENT
One of the easiest ways to support Coffee & the Cats is simply to enjoy it.
Visit Kitty Cove, stop in for coffee or lunch, or register for one of our upcoming classes and events.
BECOME A NINE LIVES COMMUNITY PARTNER
Local businesses, organizations, families and individuals can become Nine Lives Community Partners and help support one of Rapid City’s most unusual little gathering places.
Community Partners will receive special recognition as part of the campaign.
CONTRIBUTE DIRECTLY
If Coffee & the Cats has meant something special to you and you’d simply like to contribute to the campaign, you can do that here too.
Every amount helps.
WHY IT MATTERS
We've created NINE LIVES • NINE DAYS — nine days of ways to support Coffee & the Cats while getting something back, too.
☕ Purchase a Coffee & the Cats gift card to use later
🐱 Join our new limited Nine Lives membership program
🎟️ Visit Kitty Cove or register for an upcoming event
🐾 Become a Nine Lives Community Partner
❤️ Or, if Coffee & the Cats has meant something special to you, you can simply contribute to the campaign
Every purchase, visit, membership and contribution during these nine days helps.
And this place has always been about so much more than coffee.
It’s where more than 240 cats have found homes.
It’s where people have celebrated birthdays, taken classes, discovered new food and drinks, attended strange little shows, met friends, curled up with a cup of coffee and spent half an hour with a cat who might have needed them just as much as they needed the cat.
Over time, you’ve helped turn Coffee & the Cats into a pretty unusual little corner of Rapid City.
Now we’re asking our community to help give us a strong start to the next chapter.
🐾 THE NINE-DAY GOAL: $4,000 BY OCTOBER 8
We’ll share our progress along the way — and hopefully have a little fun seeing just how much nine days can accomplish.
If you’ve ever thought, “I really want this place to stick around,” this is a wonderful week to stop in, buy ahead, join us for an event, become a member, or simply share this post with someone who hasn’t discovered us yet.
No single person has to do everything
A whole lot of people doing one small thing can change everything
🐾 Nine Lives. Nine Days.
☕ Let’s keep the coffee pouring, the cats purring and this little place moving forward. ❤️