Thanks for visiting the Best Friends Network at the Texas Unites for Animals Conference 2025!
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Mystery Grant Opportunity For Conference Attendees
To further support your lifesaving efforts, we are offering a mystery amount grant opportunity exclusive to organizations attending Texas Unites for Animals Conference 2025.
Become eligible for a mystery grant opportunity by attending Texas Unites for Animals Conference 2025 and completing the following by Monday, May 12 at 11:59pm ET:
- Become a Best Friends Network Partner
- Upload 2024 and 2025 monthly data to Shelter Pet Data Alliance
- Update your contact info with Best Friends
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Become A Best Friends Network Partner
Gain free access to exclusive resources, one-on-one training, grant opportunities, and an extensive network of over 5,000 organizations to save animals in need.
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Additional Opportunities
Looking Ahead — Join upcoming events in 2025
Explore our 2025 events page to stay up-to-date on upcoming in-person events, virtual training, and exclusive opportunities that will help you connect, learn, and grow with the Best Friends Network.
Regional Connections — Find your local Best Friends strategist
The regional team members are dedicated to helping the network partners in their region be successful. These experts are your contact should you need assistance locally.
Connect with Best Friends regional strategists in your area.
Resources
Do:
- Quality of life assessment – U.S. animal shelter staff wellbeing
- Shelter self-assessment tool for increasing positive outcomes for (big) dogs
Read:
- 2024 National Data Report: A Turning Point in Lifesaving, and a Roadmap for Getting to 90%
- No-Kill Infographic Flyer
- Digital Paws: Revolutionizing Animal Welfare Through Social Media Marketing
- Community Cat Programs Handbook
- Literature review: Housing
- Literature review: Adoptions
- Setting the record straight on managed intake
- Conversation-based adoption services
- Training new animal care staff
- Volunteer program overview training playbook
Watch:
- Caring for the People that Care for Animals: Prioritizing Staff Well-being in Animal Welfare
- Successfully marketing and adopting hard-to-place pets
- Using transparency to empower and support your community
- Expanding your walls: maximize lifesaving with a community-based foster program
- Lifesaving with the latest data technology webinar series
- Peer to peer fundraising webinar
Listen:
- Managed intake programs: finding the best possible outcomes for pets
- If "nobody's perfect," then why do we expect all pet adopters to be?
- Managing our mental health