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Animal Welfare Benchmarks: Donor value reaches new heights
The last few years have been – to say the least—a challenge. Through it all, we’ve been navigating a significant shift in the way we speak to our donors, moving...
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Tip of the Week: Busting Biases at Work
Here’s an exercise to try the next time you’ve got an important decision to make in the workplace. Bias—simply defined as a prejudice in favor of or against one thing,...
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4 Tips for Applying DEI to Your Daily Work
April 22, 2023, Jasmin Robinson
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Keeping the momentum going, Jasmin Robinson shares post-Expo inspo I recently attended Animal Care Expo as a panelist for one of the sessions on the main stage, “Mission-critical for animal...
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Tip of the Week: The Case for Pet-Friendly Housing
We’re still digging through the tips and insights shared in last week’s Roundtable on Dog Breeds: Implication for Behavior, Adopter Expectations & Legislation. Here’s another invaluable resource. One of the...
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What Do Our Communities Most Need to Be the Places We Already Think They Are?
3 quick questions with Dalbin Osorio What’re you doing next Wednesday, April 26? If you didn’t already save the date for Virtual Equity: Using Tech to Increase Access for Emerging...
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Update: 2023 Compensation & Benefits Study
We at The Association were thrilled to open data collection for the 2023 Compensation & Benefits Study on March 14. We were also thrilled by your response. This year, we offered...
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Tip of the Week: What Do You Think I Am?
We know that dogs for adoption at shelters are regularly labeled by breed, and we know that staff regularly make their best guesses—based on looks—to describe a dog’s breed or...
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Letter from the President: Your Official Invitation to The Solutions Summit
The Association’s President & CEO is saving the date – see you on June 13? Dear Colleagues, Please accept this as your official invitation to The Association for Animal Welfare...
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Time to Celebrate: Ready for Everything, with Kindness & Professionalism
In honor of National Animal Care & Control Appreciation Week, I would like to share a list of shout-outs and well-deserved thank yous. Unfortunately, animal care and control workers are...
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Member Spotlight: Get to Know Tim Anderson, CAWA
The Animal Control Captain and Ops Manager for Regional Animal Services of King County talks about top trends in compensations and benefits—and dishes on who’d get an invite to his...
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Women in Animal Welfare, Part II: Breaking The Glass Ceiling
In Part I of this series, The Association’s Executive Vice President encouraged women leaders in animal welfare to explore ways to help those coming up to navigate their journey. Today...
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Time to Celebrate: ACO Appreciation Week 2023
The National Animal Care and Control Association’s Executive Director explains why April 9 through 15 is so important to our animal welfare colleagues who risk their lives on a daily...
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