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Resource Guide
This guide provides shelters, rescue professionals, volunteers, and advocates with ideas and inspiration to help save even more lives.
We regularly visit shelters and rescues across the southern states to see what's working and build connections with the amazing people doing this work. Through these visits and our research team, we discover creative fundraising ideas, volunteer programs, grants, donation opportunities, and innovative ways organizations are saving more lives. This guide brings together all those discoveries in one place, making it easy for anyone working in animal rescue to find the tools they need. We're always adding new resources and ideas, so if you know of something great that should be included, please share it with us!
Building Foster Programs for Animal Shelters and Rescues
Learn how to build successful foster programs for your shelter. Proven recruitment strategies, training tips, innovative program ideas, and best practices from leading rescues.
Increasing Traffic to Your Shelter and Advocating for Homeless Dogs
Discover strategies to increase traffic to your animal shelter, promote adoptions, engage volunteers, and advocate for homeless pets. Includes events, training programs, and outreach ideas.
Recruiting Volunteers for Your Animal Shelter
Discover creative and effective ways to recruit volunteers for your animal shelter. Learn how to attract dog walkers, foster families, and community helpers while keeping them engaged and appreciated.
How to Boost Animal Shelter Adoptions and Community Engagement
Discover powerful marketing strategies for animal shelters. Learn how to celebrate adopters, build business partnerships, share success stories, grow community support, and use social media and email to promote adoptions.
How to Promote Shelter Dogs for Adoption: Creative Strategies That Work
Learn how to promote shelter dogs for adoption with proven, real-world strategies. From photography and storytelling to community partnerships and creative campaigns, discover what works for shelters.