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Serving Horses in Your Community with Strategic Intake Policies

Use these intake strategies to help more horses in your community.

3 Tips to Train Volunteers with Staying Power

Follow these three training tips to ensure your volunteers are prepared for duty—and that they stick around for the long term.

5 Tips for Training and Retaining Volunteers

Learn how one small all-volunteer organization uses five tips to effectively train and retain an army of dedicated volunteers.

How to Use Whiteboards to Share Information about Shelter Animals

Sharing information about animals in your care is critical. Use these tips for creating effective whiteboards—and get a few ideas for other ways to convey important information visually.

COVID-19 Animal Welfare Survey Offers View of Future Shelter Operations

A survey of shelters and rescues during the pandemic revealed challenges, lessons learned, and new approaches to help dogs and cats going forward.

They Did It: DIY Capital Campaign

Learn the successful strategies employed when a Colorado large-animal sanctuary needed to raise $100,000 fast.

Essential Tips for Effective Fundraising

The ASPCA’s Philanthropy team offers tips and best practices in animal welfare fundraising strategies.

What's the Deal About Data?

Knowing what animals are coming into your shelter and why, and what animals are making it out alive (or not) are important keys to improve your performance.

They Did It: Raised More Than 25% of Their Annual Fundraising Goal During One Event

What made Heart of the Valley Animal Shelter’s signature “Dog Ball” fundraiser so successful? Executive Director Marla Caulk shares her tips.

Volunteer Passports: The Gateway to Shelter Support

A simple, straightforward training tool introduces volunteers to shelter support tasks that have a high impact.

Join The Rescue Effect