In 2012, a new charitable event exploded on the scene: Giving Tuesday, a day dedicated to the power of grassroots philanthropy and cause support. More than 10,000 organizations participated last year. Find out how your organization can take advantage of the donation power of this worldwide event in a free webinar from CharityHowTo on Wednesday,… Learn More

September is Happy Healthy Cat Month, and the CATalyst Council wants you to consider heading to the shelter and adopting your solo feline a friend. From the campaign website: Think about getting another cat. Cats are social animals, so you might want to consider visiting the shelter and adopting a another cat. They love to… Learn More

There are two ways to save the lives of more pets: Find loving homes for them when they enter an animal shelter, and keep them in loving homes they already have so they stay out of the shelter in the first place. “We’re already doing pretty well with our adoptions,” said Gina Knepp, animal care… Learn More

Is your shelter or rescue group missing important  tools that will help get pets adopted? Here’s how to find out! Shelter Pet Project social media manager Christie Keith recently spoke at a shelter medicine conference at Cornell University, where she walked the audience through some of the basic problems she’s seen on adoption websites, and… Learn More

Pets in shelters, rescue groups, foster homes or permanent homes all have this in common: It can be difficult to know for sure if they’re in pain. Because untreated pain causes suffering, can alter a pet’s personality, makes adoption difficult and puts space and resource crunches on an organization, it’s essential that shelters and rescue… Learn More

Not all promotion happens before an adoption event. Some of your most effective publicity will happen during it — if your shelter or rescue group is doing it right, that is! Here are five tips to keep you out of trouble, and the pets in luck! 1. Designate a single person to do live social… Learn More

Did you know you should never use tape on top of a fentanyl pain patch on a dog? It can lift the patch slightly out of contact with the skin, and fail to provide pain relief. This is just one of the simple tips for using fentanyl patches shared by DVM360 from a presentation by… Learn More

Do you ever wish you had a solid grounding in how to run an animal shelter with lifesaving as its core mission? Whether you’re currently in the sheltering field or considering making the leap, you can get that opportunity in “Animal Shelter Management: Lifesaving-Centered” through the University of the Pacific’s online certificate course. Experienced, new,… Learn More

As part of our commitment to lifesaving, we want to help shelters and rescue groups grow, sustain, and improve their foster care programs. We also want to make pet fostering more rewarding and successful for the community members who participate in it. To do that, we need your help! Humane Network is conducting two surveys… Learn More

If you’ve never visited your animal organization’s Facebook analytics page, you don’t know what you’re missing. No, not the abject terror of looking at data. You’re missing vital and easily understood information that will help you reach more people with your adoption, fundraising and volunteer recruitment messages. If you want to know when is the… Learn More