Animal welfare field notes.
Guides and resources for animal shelters, rescues, and foster networks.
A simple year-end fundraising plan for animal rescues: an easy donation page, three emails, specific asks, monthly giving, and timely thank-yous.
How to take applications, sign contracts, and collect adoption fees on a phone at rescue events, including what to prepare and how to handle slow internet.
What to post on social media for your animal shelter or rescue, how to choose platforms, and how to keep it up without taking too much of your team's time.
How to write adoption profiles that show a pet's personality, share needs honestly, and help the right adopter picture that pet at home.
What to include on adoption, foster, and volunteer applications, what to leave out, and how to keep your forms short enough for people to finish.
A step-by-step guide to starting a foster program, including policies, recruitment, screening, matching, and support for foster homes.
How to recruit shelter volunteers with specific requests, a short application, simple training, flexible shifts, and regular appreciation.
Low-cost ways to increase pet adoptions: simplify your application, respond faster, improve pet profiles, keep listings current, and show up in your community.
Practical fixes for problems most shelters and rescues run into: scattered medical records, knowledge held by one person, capacity, applications, and funding.