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Five Tips for Successful Grant Writing

Learn top tips for writing successful grant proposals to secure funds for your essential life-saving work.

Tips: Fundraising with Social Media

Tips to tackle the Facebook and Twitter fundraising frontiers.

5 Tips for Thanking Donors

Use these five basic tips for showing gratitude to donors, building goodwill—and potentially fostering larger donations in the future.

7 Tips for Animal Shelters on Giving Tuesday

These seven best practices can help you leverage the philanthropic powerhouse of Giving Tuesday on behalf of your organization and its animals.

Creating SOPs

Find out what SOPs are, what they should contain, who benefits from having them and strategies for getting them written.

8 Tips for Effectively Communicating During a Crisis

Learn tips to engage the community during urgent and crisis situations when your animals (and staff) need it most.

Updating SOPs

Your SOP should be reviewed at least once a year by all staff, department supervisors and the director.

5 Ways to Show Volunteers How Important They Are

You know your volunteers are vital. Here are volunteer appreciation tips to help make sure they know it, too!

Top 10 Tips for Responding to Negative Comments

When faced with negative comments, remember the 3 Cs: context, consistency and case-by-case. Here are tips on fielding hits from blogs, forums or Facebook.

Using Geographic Information Systems (GIS) to Map Animal Data

Read about the ASPCA’s research into Geographic Information Systems and how it can be a powerful lifesaving tool for shelters.

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