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COVID-19 Comms: Graphics and Flyers for Messaging Your Community & Staff
Sharing the most up-to-date information with your community and staff is of utmost importance right now. Your supporters and teams are looking to you for clear, direct communications—and to that...
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COVID-19 Leadership Lessons: Nonprofit & Government Shelter Collaboration
If there’s one thing that’s emerged from the animal sheltering community during this pandemic, it’s that collaboration is key. The HSUS’ Kim Alboum and The Association’s Katherine Shenar sat down...
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COVID-19 Safety Net Idea: Pet Food Delivery
Based on the response to this Facebook post back in January, we know that many of you already have Ani-meals-type programs, delivering pet food and supplies to the elderly, homebound, and...
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Keeping Up With COVID-19: 5 Leadership Lessons from Sharon Harvey
On the adoptions floor, at the front desk, doing a daily walk-through … that’s usually where you’d find Sharon Harvey, Cleveland APL’s dynamic President & CEO and the epitome of...
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Important NACA Protocol: Removing Pets From COVID-19 Homes
We have 3 officers for a large county with a population of over 100,000. Even though we are taking precautions, we still have to work. It’s a scary time. We’re...
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New COVID-19 Protocol: Sheltering Exposed Pets
Following yesterday’s publication of “Interim recommendations for intake of companion animals from households where humans with COVID-19 are present,” the University of Wisconsin-Madison Shelter Medicine Program has made available a...
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Keeping Up with COVID-19: 5 Leadership Lessons from Lisa LaFontaine
The Association’s Katherine Shenar and HSUS’ Kim Alboum recently checked in with Lisa LaFontaine, CEO of the Humane Rescue Alliance, on leadership in the time of COVID-19. “All of the...
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Keeping Up with COVID-19, 3/25: Update of Federal Actions Impacting Animals
Thank you to Nancy Perry and Michele McMahon of The ASPCA’s Government Relations team for compiling this list of federal actions impacting animals, as well as links to other helpful...
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VIDEO: Urgent Recommendations Regarding S/N During COVID-19
We know that many organizations are struggling with the urgent recommendation to suspend spay/neuter surgeries at this time. The Association’s Katherine Shenar and Kim Alboum of HSUS recently checked in...
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Keeping Up with COVID-19, 3/23: 10 Essential Online Learning Opportunities
Are you or your team working from home? This short list of online learning opportunities will give you ideas and inspiration on how to handle a variety of personal and...
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Keeping Up with COVID-19, 3/22: Drive-Thru & Roadside Foster Programs
Amidst this unprecedented, ever-changing situation, the animal sheltering field is showing resilience, flexibility and innovation—and the response from our communities has been overwhelming. Read on to learn how two organizations...
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Keeping Up with COVID-19, 3/20: Take Your Fundraising Events Online
“One thing is clear,” reveal The Association’s Jim Tedford and Trish Dewald of Phoenix Innovate in their recent blog. “For organizations to remain true to their missions, active fundraising must...
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