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Current Opportunities

Webinars, summits, grant opportunities, challenges, and so much more — and we want you to be a part of it.

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How Do We Keep Veterinary Staff From Leaving? Wellbeing and Retention in Animal Shelters

Jun 10

Recruiting veterinary professionals is hard. Keeping them can feel even harder. We'll review the literature on veterinary wellbeing and staff retention, with a focus on animal shelter medicine. We'll discuss organizational and leadership strategies that improve job satisfaction, reduce burnout risk, and help staff not only stay in the field, but enjoy their lives outside of work too.

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The Best Tools You Aren’t Using: How Data Can Help You Build Stronger Transfer Networks

Jun 18

Expanding your transfer network can save more lives. But building the right partnerships is often the biggest challenge. Data can help pave the way. Learn about the free tools that can help organizations of all sizes identify transfer opportunities, strengthen collaboration, and better understand regional shelter and rescue trends in your region — with practical examples of how partnerships are formed and maintained, and how data can help identify gaps and opportunities within existing networks.

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Fund Your Lifesaving: Apply for Grants

Network partners are eligible to apply for yearly Rachael Ray No-Kill Excellence grants and Rachael Ray Save Them All grants, to increase lifesaving in their communities through impactful, innovative, and inclusive programming. Organizations can only submit one grant proposal. Learn more about these grants — including upcoming deadlines, and the types of submissions that will be considered.

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New Grants: Binky Incentive Award

We're thrilled to offer grants between $1,000 and $10,000 to help newer Best Friends Network Partners make an even bigger impact thanks to the Binky Incentive Award. If your organization has formed within the last five years and you’ve completed at least one Best Friends Learning Advancement course, this opportunity is for you.

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Find Us at These Conferences

You’ll find members of the Best Friends team at conferences all across the country throughout the year:

CarolinasUnite Animal Welfare Professionals Conference | March 9-12, 2026
New England Federation of Humane Societies Annual Conference | March 16-18, 2026
Arizona Animal Control Association Conference | March 24-25, 2026
Virginia Federation of Humane Societies Annual Conference | March 25-27, 2026
Animal Care Expo | April 7-10, 2026
Texas Unites for Animals Conference | April 23-26, 2026
Best Friends National Conference | May 7-9, 2026
Prairie States Conference | May 31-June 2, 2026
Badger State Conference | September 23-24, 2026
Midwest Animal Welfare Conference | October 1-3, 2026

Want to talk to the team about one of our experts presenting at or attending your conference? Reach out and let’s talk!

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Check Out Past Events

> Want to see what we’ve been up to? Take a look at past challenges and webinars. The events themselves may be over, but the materials, tools, data findings, videos, and other resources are still really useful.