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The Best Friends Network team provides support, collaboration with other network partners and connection with experts, resources, and funding opportunities.

Aurora Velazquez, East Regional Director

Courtney Gawel, operations manager

Our expert panelists will dig into how marketing efforts across social media platforms and your shelter’s website impact adoption success, and if listing pets on Adopt a Pet and Petfinder really work.

When Helping Hands Humane Society in Topeka, Kansas, tested their fears of fee-waived adoptions, they found their worries didn't stand up to the data.

Strategic managed intake is a proven practice that recognizes that entering an animal shelter is not the best outcome for many pets and that remaining in their homes, or being returned home quickly, is the most desirable outcome. Strategic managed intake seeks to triage those situations for which th…

Talia Padilla is the Senior Manager of the Field Training Initiative program for Best Friends Animal Society.

Nearly 2 out of 3 U.S. shelters are now no-kill — and hundreds more are within reach of that goal. Our goal is to get to 100%.

Cara Drake, South Central Regional Specialist

Arin Greenwood, senior strategist, network and advocacy communications