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3 Ways Your Shelter Can Help Wildlife
Thursday’s here again—time to roll out another edition of our Innovation Bank. These short, pre-recorded webinars feature successful, model programs from your colleagues in the field. Today, Barb Haney of the SPCA...
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Best Practices: What’s Your Veterinary Decision-Making Process?
When making veterinary decisions, how do you balance the needs of the individual animal, the shelter population, the community, and your organization’s resources? Dr. Graham Brayshaw, Director of Animal Services at Animal...
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5 Do’s & Don’ts of Guinea Pig Care in the Shelter
Thursday’s here again—time to roll out another program featured in our Innovation Bank. These short, pre-recorded webinars feature successful, replicable programs from your colleagues in the field. Today, Saskia Chiesa of Los...
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Volunteer Training #inspo: COVID-19 Protocol Videos
Whether you’re just starting to bring back your volunteers or are fortunate enough to have done so already, you’ve had to put new protocols in place to keep everyone safe...
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DEI Roundtable: 4 Top Takeaways
Last Thursday, animal services and TNR leaders who are guiding their cities through difficult climates sat down to share challenges and insights. The Roundtable on Community Relations During a Time of...
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Are You Doing These 3 Things To Help Keep People & Pets Together?
It’s Thursday, so that means we’re sharing another brilliant idea from our Innovation Bank. These short, pre-recorded webinars feature successful, replicable programs from your colleagues in the field, and today it’s Kentucky Humane...
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Member Spotlight: Get To Know Kathleen M. Olson, CAWA
The first shelter Kathleen M. Olson worked at reached 90% positive outcomes for dogs within 3 years under her leadership. As ED of Purrfect Pals Cat Sanctuary and Adoption Center, she...
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Needed Now: Street Medicine Teams to Help Pets of the Indigent
It’s Thursday, so that means we’re rolling out another brilliant idea in our Innovation Bank of short, pre-recorded webinars. Today we’re highlighting the incredible work of Jon Geller, DVM, DABVP emeritus, and The Street...
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The Forgotten Pets of Domestic Violence: 3 Things to Think About
It’s Thursday, and that means we’re rolling out another brilliant idea in our Innovation Bank of short, pre-recorded webinars. Today we’re looking at an especially important, unfortunately overlooked topic—the animal victims of...
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4 Questions with Dr. Michael J. Blackwell
The animal welfare field is lucky to have forward thinkers, those who are ahead of the curve on recognizing challenges and identifying innovative solutions. One such forward thinker is Dr....
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How to Rock Your Next Virtual Meeting
How has the pandemic changed the way your organization communicates internally? We’re betting one change is virtual meetings—and lots of them. How are these meetings conducted—and what’s successful/not-so-successful about them?...
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Creating Dog-Friendly Rental Communities: 3 Things You Need to Know
In 2016, nearly 20% of the dogs taken in by Pet Alliance of Greater Orlando were surrendered because of landlord and housing issues. In order to keep more pets (read:...
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