News, ideas & inspiration from industry leaders
Tip of the Week
Tip of the Week: Are You In Or Are You Out?
As animal welfare professionals we often wear many hats, particularly in smaller organizations. Does your organization have an in-house HR team, or do you outsource to an HR or payroll...
Read More
Tip of the Week: Does It Make a Difference?
Doing DEI work? Here’s one tool to assess the impact. We know many of your organizations have been hard at work to increase diversity within your walls, and to make...
Read More
Tip of the Week: Assess Your Community’s Virtual Equity
Are there areas in your community that don’t have access to broadband services? Here are resources for finding out. Are your employment, adoptions & volunteer applications online only? What about...
Read More
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,...
Read More
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...
Read More
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...
Read More
Tip of the Week: Best Practices for Keeping People & Pets Together
Looking for a digital resource for creating and strengthening pet-friendly homeless services? Coming right up, thanks to National Alliance to End Homelessness and PetSmart Charities. In shifting how we think...
Read More
Tip of the Week: Dog, Tagged
This week we share an idea for finding lost dogs via Missing Animal Response Network. This is a good one to pass on to your communities. “The basic concept is...
Read More
Tip of the Week: Defining Roles
What’s in a name? This week’s tip digs into leadership roles and titles, and how some of your colleagues are defining these roles. Manager, Coordinator, Director, Supervisor…. Definitions for these...
Read More
Tip of the Week: Good Reads
Earlier this year, we asked members of The Association what they were reading. Here are a few of their recs. Let us know in the comments if you’ve checked out...
Read More
Tip of the Week: Ready to Roll
One shelter shares an easy way to keep retail sales rolling right along Animal welfare folx are some of the most resourceful out there, well-versed at MacGyvering cat hiding...
Read More
Tip of the Week: Keep It Moving
One shelter shares their tip for keeping animals moving through the system. Take a look at their solution and add your ideas. We’ve heard that many organizations are “doing everything...
Read More
Search The Association Blog
Contribute to The Blog
