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The Future of Animal Welfare: Day 2 Highlights
What happens when you get 545 animal welfare professionals together? Lots of learning, hard questions, and the opportunity to be serenaded by The Association’s Pres & CEO, Jim Tedford…. We’ll...
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The Future of Animal Welfare: Day 1 Highlights
While we all hoped to be meeting in person this year, we’re making it work virtually again and…. wow, are you working it! With more than 500 animal welfare professionals...
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Tip of the Week: This Question Can Change Everything
It may be Monday, but we’re looking ahead to, well, Looking Forward: The Future of Animal Welfare. The 3-day virtual conference kicks off tomorrow at 1 ET, and today’s tip is...
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The Great CAWA Throwdown
Yup, you read that title right. It wasn’t our idea, but all props go to Arizona Humane Society’s President & CEO, Steven Hansen, DVM, MBA, and member of The Association’s...
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Tip of the Week: Ditch the Desk
It’s Monday—that means we’re here with tools, time-savers, and just-plain-genius ideas that your colleagues and members of The Association have suggested and tested. Today’s tip, courtesy of Mike Buckley, CFRE, encourages...
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Comps & Benefits Update: This Survey Can Make You Smarter
Here’s one more juicy reason to register for the Compensation & Benefits Benchmarking Survey. And yup, it may be even juicier than the fact that the Early Bird deadline is...
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Tip of the Week: Thoroughly Vetted
It’s Monday, and that means we’re here to pass on a tip or tool that can help you do what you do even better. Up this week is a new resource...
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Cybersecurity in Animal Welfare: How to protect your organization
It’s a scary digital world, friends. We know we’ve got problems when even the FBI gets hacked. But, we’re animal welfare! It’s all kittens and puppies and rainbows and happy endings,...
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Harassment, Threats & Workplace Security in Animal Welfare
Have you ever been harassed, bullied, or threatened because of your job helping animals? Unfortunately, it is not uncommon. And as it’s one of today’s most relevant and pressing topics...
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Rural Challenges in Animal Welfare, Part 2: People, People, Who’s Got the People?
In Part 1 of his series on Rural Challenges in Animal Welfare, Cole Wakefield, Animal Services Director for Good Shepherd Humane Society, got the field thinking about the availability of resources...
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Tip of the Week: So, Tell Us What You Really Think…
This week’s #MondayMotivation is targeted to executive teams and department leads, but it touches on an important concept that’s relevant to anyone who regularly seeks feedback from others. Thanks to Humane...
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3 Ways to Be a More Effective Humane Enforcement Officer
Next month, we’ll be digging into seven of today’s most pressing issues during Looking Ahead: The Future of Animal Welfare. One session will focus on humane law enforcement—how this invaluable...
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