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The ASPCA National Spay/Neuter Project is hosting a webinar series for agencies interested in bringing affordable high-quality, high-volume spay/neuter services to their communities. You do not need to be a participant in the National Spay/Neuter Project to attend these free, one-hour webinars.
Can't attend a live webinar? Check back to this page where we'll post links to archives of the sessions you can access any time.
Listen to Recordings of Past Webinars
Increasing Capacity for Spay/Neuter Before Big Events
Presented by Kathleen Makolinski, DVM, ASPCA Senior Director,
Grants and Spay/Neuter Programs; Lesli Groshong, DVM, Chief Shelter
Veterinarian, Humane Society of Boulder Valley; and Carolyn Brown, DVM,
ASPCA Director of Surgery, Spay/Neuter Operation
What is High Quality-High Volume Spay/Neuter?
Presented by Kathleen Makolinski, DVM, ASPCA Senior Director, Spay/Neuter Programs
Shelter Guidelines: Spay/Neuter
Natalie Isaza, DVM, Merial Clinical Assistant Professor of Shelter Medicine, College of Veterinary Medicine, University of Florida; and Cynthia Barker Cox, DVM, Head Shelter Veterinarian, MSPCA
Truly Targeted Spay/Neuter: How to Use Community Assessment and Collaboration to Best Target Service to At-Risk Animals
The ASPCA’s Dr. Emily Weiss and Dr. Kathleen Makolinski discuss how to evaluate an individual community’s need for spay/neuter services and the importance of collaboration among animal welfare stakeholders.
Forming a 501(c)(3) Nonprofit
ASPCA Corporate Counsel Beverly Jones will explain how to form a corporation and apply for 501(c)(3) status. She will also briefly discuss public disclosure of documents, governance, and unrelated business income.
Starting a Spay/Neuter Program
Learn the pros, cons, and scope of impact of mobile clinic models mentored by the National Spay/Neuter Project: mobile, MASH, and in-clinic. Aurora Piacentino, Communities Manager, ASPCA National Spay/Neuter Project, also presents the ASPCA's guidelines for running successful part-time and full-time clinics.
Customer Service for S/N Clinic Staff (a PetSmart Charities webinar)
The ASPCA's Katie Lindquist and Erin Hosty discuss ways S/N clinic staff can manage pre and post operative concerns while maintaining a high level of customer service.
Organizational Planning (a PetSmart Charities webinar)
Presented by Jennifer Dragotta, M.S. Ed, Community Initiatives Director, ASPCA
Long-term organizational planning is necessary for the growth and success of spay/neuter operations. Using the Kellogg Logic Model for this process allows organizations to set long-term impact and determine practical outcomes, measurements, and activities that will achieve the desired impact. It's a model for success. In this 90-minute webinar, attendees will be guided through the Logic Model process using examples from animal welfare. Attendees will be asked to work some of these steps throughout the webinar that they can transfer to their organization. This webinar is especially for spay/neuter groups but is applicable to all.
Recommended Webinars from PetSmart Charities
The National Spay/Neuter Project team recommends the following webinar recordings from PetSmart Charities to all agencies participating in the spay/neuter project.
These webinars give you the lowdown on obtaining grants and other funding for spay/neuter. In addition, they offer practical information for any agency interested in running a successful spay/neuter program in their community.
Customer Service for S/N Clinic Staff
Quality customer service is essential to every successful high quality, high volume spay and neuter program. This presentation will provide the audience with the tools to manage post operative concerns while maintaining a high level of customer service.
PetSmart Charities®' High Impact Spay/Neuter Grants
In the Fall of 2009, PetSmart Charities changed the guidelines for spay/neuter grants and introduced High Impact Grants under two funding areas: Targeted Spay/Neuter and Free-Roaming Cat Spay/Neuter grants. This webinar explains the High Impact Grant guidelines and offers examples of high impact projects funded in the past.
Creative Funding for Spay/Neuter Programs
Aimee St. Arnaud, a founder of Humane Ohio, shares ideas of how other communities have funded spay/neuter programs through unconventional sources such as grants from local chambers of commerce and Rotary clubs, City governments sponsoring a day of surgeries. Aimee also shares ideas on how to make sure the program you develop is effective and targeted to the areas of greatest need in your community.
Tip: You can find the details of many of these successful and creative strategies in the Public Funding for Spay/Neuter and Spay/Neuter Partnerships pages of ASPCApro.
Surviving Your First Year of Running a Spay/Neuter Clinic
Aimee St. Arnaud, a founder of Humane Ohio, a high-quality, high-volume spay/neuter clinic in Toledo, OH, discusses what you didn't know you needed to know about starting up and running a spay/neuter clinic.
Working with the Underserved in Your Community
Lori Weise of Downtown Dog Rescue walks through the lessons her agency has learned about working with the homeless populations and the animals, specifically dogs, belonging to this population. She also discusses how connecting to the community is key to the success of any type of outreach into the community. |
