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Take the learning home: AI tools for animal welfare organizations

Whether you're just getting started or ready to go deeper, take these resources back to your organization and use them to explore how AI can help you save more animals.

These resources cover the topics we explored at the conference — from responsible AI use to real-world applications in communications, fundraising, and operations. Dig in, share with your team, and come back as your work evolves.

Guide your next steps with these resources from the Best Friends National Conference AI Learning Lounge:

Which AI tool to use

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Running smart, safe pilots

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Using AI for repeatable work

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When to use AI

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High-value, low-risk ways to use AI

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Writing better AI prompts

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Talking to your staff about AI

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The ethics of AI

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Your story can move the needle

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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 pet adoption 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.