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Help for Organizations

Gap Analysis Tool

Animal shelters can access the Gap Analysis Tool to determine which programs can help them save more homeless dogs’ and cats’ lives to reach no-kill.

Puppies being rescued

Animal Shelters and Rescues Partner to Save Pets

An experienced animal rescuer explains how shelters can work with rescues to save shelter animals.

Black senior dog who was in the shelter before being pulled by a breed-specific rescue group and then adopted by woman in photo

Recruiting Volunteers for Nonprofit Organizations

Guide provides advice on volunteers for nonprofits and other organizations, and then preparing, training, and keeping volunteers busy and happy.

Volunteer with red parrot. Recruiting volunteers for nonprofits can be important for helping the animals.

Humane Animal Control Manual

Humane Animal Control manual, assembled by Best Friends Animal Society, describes lifesaving municipal shelter programs for dogs and cats.

Animal control officer holding a cat in front of some kennels at a municipal shelter

How Organizations Can Engage and Retain Volunteers

Manual from Best Friends Animal Society covers how to recruit, engage and retain volunteers.

Young volunteers working with a shelter dog

Enrichment for Shelter Cats

Shelter cat enrichment resource outlines reasons for, benefits of, and various forms of enhancing felines' lives and provides sample enrichment plans.

White and gray cat in a kennel playing with an interactive toy, with a pink enclosed bed

Animal Fundraising Ideas: Get More Donations

How to raise money to help homeless dogs and cats: This comprehensive Best Fiends Animal Society resource provides tips and ideas.

Get animal fundraising ideas to help raise money to care for shelter pets like this sweet white-and-black pitbull.

Animal Coalition: How to Build a Successful One

Gregory Castle, Best Friends CEO, walks you through a dozen ways to help build a successful animal coalition of pet welfare groups and organizations.

Gregory Castle, former CEO of Best Friends, and cat. Best Friends is continually working to build and support a successful animal coalition.

Dog Foster Care Manual

This dog foster care resource is for people new to fostering. Animal shelters and rescue groups can tailor it for their own purposes.

Girl with her family's foster care dog, a white Labrador Retriever mix

Creating an Online Orientation for Animal Foster Care Volunteers

Rescue groups and shelters may want to consider creating an animal foster care volunteers online orientation option to acquire more pet foster homes.

Man cradling a tortoiseshell colored cat in his arms

Bottle-Feeding Kittens: A Comprehensive Guide

This guide provides instructions for caring for bottle-feeding kittens — aka "bottle babies" or very young kittens who have been abandoned or orphaned.

Bottle-feeding kitten with milk on her face

Best Friends Volunteer Handbook

Non profit volunteer handbook for Best Friends, including info about policies, that may be used as a sample or template for other organizations.

Man playing with a cat using a wand toy

Animal Shelter Dogs: Promoting Them for Adoption

This action kit gives instructions of how to promote shelter dogs for adoption. Get tips on promoting individual dogs and holding adoption events.

There are many ways to promote animal shelter dogs like this pooch, aptly named Charmer.

Animal Welfare Coalition-Building Action Kit

Animal welfare coalitions are teams that have a mission focused on helping homeless animals. This comprehensive how-to guide provides instructions.

Medium-sized black dog and woman

Animal Shelter Fundraising Ideas

This guide covers animal shelter fundraising fundamentals: developing a fundraising plan, strategies to raise money, grant writing and more.

Use animal shelter fundraising strategies to help sweet pitbull puppies like these balls of love.

Animal Rescue Insurance

This animal rescue insurance guide covers types of insurance available for nonprofit animal organizations and good practices to minimize risk of loss.

Two shelter dogs playing is harmless enough but could get out of hand. To protect your animal rescue organization, you should invest in animal rescue insurance.