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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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Get Them Home and Help Them Stay There: Disaster Response & Radical RTO
At the start of the pandemic, animal shelters focused on moving homeless pets out, clearing space for the pets of the sick and deceased who had no other place to...
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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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COVID-19 Eviction Crisis: 4 Ways to Utilize Data To Help People & Their Pets
In early August, experts projected that an estimated 30 million–40 million renters could be at risk of eviction by year’s end. And with 72% of renters owning pets, the animal welfare...
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4 Tips for Optimal Medical Staffing for Shelters & Clinics
Your medical team is going through some big changes right now. With mandated social distancing measures, all procedures are taking longer, and staff has had to adapt to curbside veterinary...
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Are You Expecting Your BIPOC Employees To Educate You?
An open letter to white leadership in animal welfare As national uprising against racial inequity continues, employers across the United States are urgently looking to find ways to create cultures...
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Member Spotlight: Get To Know Dr. Cristie Kamiya
What happens when your Chief of Shelter Medicine has a DVM and an MBA? You just might become the first-ever organization to meet all 543 of the Association of Shelter Veterinarians’ standard-of-care...
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3 Quick & Juicy Virtual Adoptions Tips
Earlier this summer, we posted Dr. Cristie Kamiya’s account of how Humane Society Silicon Valley has been dealing with—and overcoming—many of the challenges brought on by COVID-19. The Milpitas, CA, agency...
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Supporting Staff During COVID-19: Pet Alliance of Greater Orlando’s Bring Your Child to Work Program
As part of our new Innovation Bank of short, pre-recorded webinars, we’ll be rolling out a brilliant idea from one of your colleagues in the field every week. First up,...
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Metro Nashville AC&C Uses Technology To Rock Their RTO (and you can, too)
Heard about how Metro Animal Care and Control (MACC) utilized a simple but mighty feature of their shelter software to increase their RTO by 11 percentage points? This innovative use...
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3 Ways to Get Your Grit On
Josh originally published this post as 3 Steps to Your Leadership Superpowers on his blog for veterinary professionals, and the tips are just as applicable to leaders and managers of animal...
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4 Key Insights from Rebranding a 143-Year-Old Organization (During a Pandemic)
Matt Pepper and Tom Varitek, CEO and Communications VP, respectively, of Michigan Humane—formerly Michigan Humane Society—recently sat down with The Association’s Katherine Shenar to discuss what goes into the reinvigoration...
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