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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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Turn Your Adopters into Champions at the Pet Lover's Choice Awards

Nov 05 — Mar 27

Get ready for the most exciting event of the year — introducing the Pet Lovers’ Choice Awards! Best Friends is partnering with a new, star-studded, nationally broadcast event that celebrates our beloved pets, and we want your organization to be a part of it. This is the chance to engage your communities, have them celebrate your adoption stories, and receive critical funding — up to $20,000 — for your organization.

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National Shelter Medicine Webinar: Disaster Response Essentials for Animal Shelters

Feb 11 — Feb 11

This shelter medicine webinar focuses on how teams can lead effective preparedness and response efforts, from pre-event planning to triage, vaccination, biosecurity, and disease prevention in emergency shelters. Gain strategies to protect staff, reduce overcrowding-related disease risks, and support both animals and communities during high-stress events. Join us as 4pm ET.

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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 Network team at conferences all across the country throughout the year:

Animal Care Expo | April 7-10, 2026
Texas Unites for Animals Conference | April 23-26, 2026
Best Friends National Conference | May 7-9, 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.