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Advocacy Due Diligence Playbook

This playbook helps you and others understand the problems and challenges you identified and produce ideas, alternatives, and outcomes to ask a decision-maker or elected ...
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Supporting a Lifesaving Animal Ordinance in Your Community

In chapter 3 of Best Friends Animal Society's Grassroots Advocacy Toolkit, you'll learn how to promote ordinances that save homeless dogs and cats.
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Hosting a Action Team Meetup

In chapter 5 of Best Friends Animal Society's Grassroots Advocacy Toolkit, learn tips for hosting a Action Team meeting.
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Community Organizing to Help Homeless Pets

In chapter 1 of Best Friends Animal Society's Grassroots Advocacy Toolkit, learn how to connect with advocates for homeless pets in your community.
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Starting a Local Action Team Chapter

In chapter 2 of Best Friends Animal Society's Grassroots Advocacy Toolkit, learn how to start a local Action Team.
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Creating Petitions and Gathering Signatures

In chapter 4 of Best Friends Animal Society's Grassroots Advocacy Toolkit you'll learn tips for creating successful petitions to help save more homeless pets.
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Tabling and Canvassing in Your Community

In chapter 6 of Best Friends Animal Society's Grassroots Advocacy Toolkit, learn tips for tabling and canvassing to raise awareness for homeless pets.
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Engaging With Local Schools

In chapter 7 of Best Friends Animal Society's Grassroots Advocacy Toolkit, you'll learn how you can involve young people in saving more homeless pets.
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Using Social Media to Support Your Advocacy Efforts

In chapter 8 of Best Friends Animal Society's Grassroots Advocacy Toolkit, learn tips for using social media to save more dogs and cats.
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Grassroots Advocacy Toolkit: Introduction

Best Friends Animal Society's Grassroots Advocacy Toolkit provides a guide to creating compassionate communities for pets and people.
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How to Organize a Protest to Stop Puppy Mill Dog Sales

Pet stores typically sell puppies from puppy mills or other unscrupulous dog breeders. Learn how to organize a protest to stop puppy mill dog sales.
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How to Help Pit Bulls Get Adopted

This action kit describes how shelters, rescue groups, and animal lovers can help rescue pit bulls and get these dogs get adopted into loving homes.
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Animal Coalition: How to Build a Successful One

Gregory Castle, Best Friends CEO, walks you through a dozen ways to help build a successful animal coalition of pet welfare groups and organizations.
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Gregory Castle, former CEO of Best Friends, and cat. Best Friends is continually working to build and support a successful animal coalition.

Combating Puppy and Kitten Mills with Legislation

Puppy and kitten mills are cruel to animals. There are breeder licensing, mill inspection, consumer protection, and pet sale ban laws that help.
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How to Lobby for Trap-Neuter-Vaccinate-Return (TNVR) for Cats

Want to lobby for trap-neuter-vaccinate-return (TNVR), aka trap-neuter-release (TNR), to help community cats (feral and stray cats)? Answer these questions before you sta...
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End Puppy Mills: Tips for Writing to Legislators and Media

If you're looking for ways to stop puppy mills, here are some tips for contacting your legislators and media outlets to share your message.
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