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Start a fundraiser and save homeless pets

When you create a personal fundraiser to commemorate a special occasion or to honor someone special, you're creating a brighter future for homeless pets.

By gathering donations from your friends and family, you’re helping others become involved in your lifesaving work! To get started, you can create a new fundraiser. 

Create Your Fundraiser

Our fundraising platform has changed and the old system is now out of service. You can start a new fundraiser here. Email DIY@bestfriends.org with questions.

Creating a fundraiser is easy

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STEP 1

Set up your page
It's quick and easy to set up your personal fundraising page. And once it's set up, the donations you raise will go straight to work helping tens of thousands of animals, both at the Sanctuary and through lifesaving programs all across the country.
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STEP 2

Spread the word
Share your fundraising campaign by email and on social media. The more people you reach, the faster you'll reach your goal.
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STEP 3

Make an impact
You're accomplishing so much when you raise funds for the animals. Your funds will go straight to work saving the lives of homeless pets around the country by providing them with the help and healing they need to find loving homes.
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Start creating your fundraiser

Create your personal fundraiser to celebrate a special occasion, such as a wedding, birthday or an endurance event.

Create Your Fundraiser
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Partners in lifesaving

The animals are incredibly grateful for your support today — and we are too. Please know that your gift goes straight to work providing lifesaving care and life-changing opportunities to homeless pets around the country.

For questions about your fundraiser, email diy@bestfriends.org. For business fundraising and partnerships, click here. 

Please note: In order to create a personal fundraising page, you must be at least 13 years of age. If you are under the age of 13, a parent or guardian must create a fundraising page on your behalf.

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Ready to get started?

Once it's set up, the donations you raise will go straight to work helping tens of thousands of animals, both at the Sanctuary and through lifesaving programs all across the country.
Create Your Fundraiser
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About Best Friends Animal Society

Best Friends is working to end the killing of dogs and cats in U.S. shelters in part by getting more pets out of shelters and into loving homes.

We’ve come a long way since the first known city reached no-kill in 1994, and now we’re closer than ever to making the entire country no-kill. Of the roughly 3,900 shelters operating in America today, 1,300 of them are not yet no-kill, but nearly half are close with 100 or fewer additional pets to be saved, and we know what to do to get them there.

Best Friends is committed to working with passionate people like you to save homeless pets through adoption, volunteering, fostering, and advocacy. In addition to our lifesaving centers around the U.S, we also founded and run the nation's largest no-kill sanctuary for companion animals.

Working together, we can save homeless pets in our communities and secure a better future for our best friends. Together, we will bring the whole country to no-kill.