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Tip of the Week: Setting the Ground Rules
In case you missed last month’s HASS-hosted webinar, Coalition Building for Animal Care Organizations, today’s tip highlights the importance of setting ground rules for meetings. While The Association’s Katherine Shenar and...
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10 Reasons to Get WiLD Every Year
Dr. Rob McKenna and Dr. Daniel Hallak of WiLD Leaders invite you to The Association’s first webinar of 2022, and share a little background on what to expect at their interactive...
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Tip of The Week: It’s Not About The Toilet Paper…
It’s only the first week of the year, and already we’re on a roll. Here’s a reminder from The Animal Protective Association of Missouri‘s Kim Brown that in order to...
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10 Most Talked-About Resources of 2021
This blog’s all you—all your suggestions, that is. Over the past year, we listened and took notes as you passed along your favorite books, tech tools, websites, links and videos. ...
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Most Popular Webinar Recordings of 2021
Here are the 10 juiciest, most actionable and thought-provoking webinars you kept coming back to. Catch up on those you missed and let us know if they bring you any aha! moments....
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Tip of the Week: A Very Important Date
You are reading the last Tip of the Week for 2021. The clock’s ticking, so we’re getting time-sensitive and tried-and-true, thanks to Humane Network’s Bonney Brown & Diane Blankenburg. While folks...
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Best of the Blog 2021
Here are some of your most-read posts from 2021. Whether you’re a regular visitor or reading for the first time, feel free to leave us a comment on any of...
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Rural Challenges in Animal Welfare, Part 3: One Size Does Not Fit All
In Part 2 of his series on Rural Challenges in Animal Welfare, Cole Wakefield, Animal Services Director for Good Shepherd Humane Society, discussed the availability, and lack thereof, of human resources...
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Tip of the Week: Doing It By the Numbers
We’re back with another juicy nugget from Looking Forward: The Future of Animal Welfare, The Association’s virtual conference held earlier this month. Here’s a little pep talk for data collection, courtesy...
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The Future of Animal Welfare: Day 3 Highlights
Day 3, and going strong. We’re loving the feedback we’re getting about the conference format of half-days and just one track–no place to be but together. We’ll be digging into...
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Member Spotlight: Get To Know Phil Arkow
You’re about to meet the real deal. A pioneer in naming and building awareness of the link between animal abuse and human violence, Phil Arkow shares his rich experience in...
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Tip of the Week: These Are The People In Your Neighborhood…
Over the upcoming weeks, we’ll be using this space to roll out tips and resources from last week’s virtual conference, Looking Forward: The Future of Animal Welfare. Here’s an invaluable toolkit...
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