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How to Start an Animal Rescue Group

Here's a comprehensive guide for how to start an animal rescue group, including preliminary planning, obtaining 501(c)(3) nonprofit status, setting a budget, and presenti...

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Recruiting Volunteers for Nonprofit Organizations

Guide provides advice on volunteers for nonprofits and other organizations, and then preparing, training, and keeping volunteers busy and happy.

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Pet Profiles: How to Write a Pet Adoption Bio

Learn how to write winning pet profiles and/or adoption bios for dogs, cats, and other animals to advertise them to individuals, shelters, and rescue groups.

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How Organizations Can Engage and Retain Volunteers

Manual from Best Friends Animal Society covers how to recruit, engage and retain volunteers.

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Enrichment for Shelter Cats

Shelter cat enrichment resource outlines reasons for, benefits of, and various forms of enhancing felines' lives and provides sample enrichment plans.

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Animal Fundraising Ideas: Get More Donations

How to raise money to help homeless dogs and cats: This comprehensive Best Fiends Animal Society resource provides tips and ideas.

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Animal Caretaker Burnout

Burnout is one of the most challenging aspects of animal caretaker working conditions. Self-nurturing is the key to handling weariness.

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Redefining the Role of the ‘Dogcatcher’

Redefining the role of the ‘dogcatcher’

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Best Friends Volunteer Handbook

Non profit volunteer handbook for Best Friends, including info about policies, that may be used as a sample or template for other organizations.

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How to Start an Animal Sanctuary

Learn the basics of how to start an animal sanctuary or rescue, including considerations like providing shelter, vet care, and food; legal issues; fundraising; adoptions;...

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Enrichment for Dogs in Shelters

This action kit provides ways to provide enrichment for shelter dogs, improving their day-to-day lives in the shelter and increasing their adoptability.

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How To Conduct Successful Adoption Events

Manual from Best Friends Animal Society covers how to put on a successful dog, cat or other pet adoption event.

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Shelter Dog Socialization and Dog Introductions

Dogs are naturally social animals, but not all have necessary social skills. Here are instructions for rescue dog socialization.

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Media Relations for Animal Organizations

This animal shelters media relations resource offers PR tips; how to write news releases, PSAs and letters to editor; tips for a successful interview.

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Shelter Dog Won't Go Back in Run

Shelter dog won't go back in run? After being out, the dog puts on his brakes. You try to pull him, and he starts to growl. What to do?

Shepherd type dog playing with a treat dispensing red ball

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Animal Shelter Dogs: Promoting Them for Adoption

This action kit gives instructions of how to promote shelter dogs for adoption. Get tips on promoting individual dogs and holding adoption events.

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