Elaine Munch, president of the Metroplex Animal Coalition, has been active in various animal welfare organizations since the early 1970's. Her current affiliations include the Humane Society of Greater Dallas(HSGD), the Humane Society of Dallas County, and she is a member of the Humane Society of the United States, Operation Kindness, and the S.P.C.A of Texas.

She is a former board member of the Garland Humane Society (now HSGD), the Irving Humane Society (now DFW Humane Society) and Weimaraner Rescue of North Texas.

She has lent her advertising and marketing expertise to the animal welfare groups needing logo design, fund raising events and newsletters.

She counts her greatest accomplishment to date as helping to secure the city ordinance requiring humane euthanasia by sodium pentobarbital at the City of Dallas Animal Shelters in 1974. This was a landmark ordinance which allowed HSUS, in cooperation with other local groups, to campaign in major cities to follow the Dallas example.