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Adoption Ambassadors

Adoption Ambassadors is foster care taken to the next level: You supply simple training and a few tools, and foster parents take it from there.

Research Behind Adoption Ambassadors

Research conducted by the ASPCA has found that empowering fosters to find adopters is a simple and powerful strategy for saving more lives.

How to Start or Elevate an Adoption Ambassadors Program

Exciting things can happen when shelters and rescues empower foster parents to market and directly adopt out their own foster dogs! Learn Adoption Ambassadors step-by-step.

Adoption Ambassadors Success Stories

Each of these shelters has put its own spin on an Adoption Ambassadors program that empowers foster parents to market and adopt out animals.

Adoption Ambassadors FAQ

Here are some of the most common questions we receive about the Adoption Ambassadors program.

Adoption Ambassadors Resource Hub

Find a collection of resources to help get animals adopted directly from volunteer foster homes.

Get to Know the Adoption Ambassadors Program

A foster home, personal agent & time out and about in the community? Shelter animals say “Yay!”

Engaging Foster Parents to be Adoption Ambassadors

Learn about a program that will help give your at-risk dogs an improved quality of life and a good chance of finding a home.

Grants

The ASPCA is one of the nation’s largest animal welfare grantmakers, providing financial and other support to nonprofit animal welfare organizations.

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Adoption Ambassadors Resources: How to Choose Dogs for the Program

Need some guidelines on which types of dogs to include in your Adoption Ambassadors foster home program? Look no further!