Thanks to the 324+ people who attended today's call live. The recording is now available to watch or share on-demand:
https://youtu.be/WruV4HK6DW4After tuning in, don't forget to complete the giveaway entry form to increase your chances of winning up to a $10,000 grant from Maddie's Fund:
https://www.maddiesfund.org/weekly-community-conversations-jan23-giveaway.htmHere's a recap of today's call including the resources that were shared and thanks to our presenter
@Kelly Duer for sharing
her presentation slides.
Agenda
- Welcome - Co-hosts
- Mary Ippoliti-Smith, Executive Leadership Team, Maddie's Fund, on the Lunar New Year of the Rabbit – a beautiful, meaningful tradition. And how painful and tragic are the mass shooting targeting the Asian community in Monterey Park, CA this past weekend. People in our organizations and communities may be experiencing pain, fear, trauma from this tragedy. Let's create some time and space for them to grieve and process.
National Updates
- Open Arms Challenge registration is open today! $420,000 in grant prizes available! The goal of this Challenge is to increase inclusivity and provide a welcoming environment for all community members. Twenty-three national organizations are joining forces to encourage animal shelters and foster-based organizations to pilot new approaches that welcome your entire community during the month of April. Register here: https://www.maddiesfund.org/open-arms-challenge.htm
- Are short-term foster programs for shelter cats beneficial or problematic? Maddie's Insights – education research webcast series Episode 1 on February 9. Register: https://maddies.fund/MIwebcastsFebthruApril2023
- Maddie's Fund Weekly Community Conversations give-away – enter a chance to win: https://www.maddiesfund.org/weekly-community-conversations-jan23-giveaway.htm Open to all who are watching live or on-demand! Be sure to enter each week you attend!
- Maddie's Pet Forum monthly give-away! Maddie's Fund® is giving away a $3,000 grant each month to one lucky Maddie's® Pet Forum member! You'll automatically be entered to win each month when you start a new discussion, reply to a new post. More info: https://chewonthis.maddiesfund.org/2022/11/new-monthly-grant-opportunity/
- The Journey You Own will be hosting a virtual Intention gathering this week Thursday at 5pm PST | 7pm CST | 8pm EST. This is a free session where participants can join with videos on or off, however they feel most comfortable. The link to register is https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZ0qf-qvqjovGtYhW5kQNH7MfQL2tAr5yBV-
- Humane Canada's 2023 Summit for Animals May 2- 4th in beautiful Victoria, British Columbia. Register now!! https://humanecanada.swoogo.com/summit/
- Best Friends Animal Society is accepting submissions to speak at the Best Friends National Conference happening Aug 10-12 in Houston, TX. We are looking for speakers with a diverse range of backgrounds and experiences and encourage first-time presenters to submit as well! The deadline to submit proposals is 2 weeks from today on Feb 6. Find out more here: https://bfas.org/speakbfnc
- Gina Clemmer announced Clinic HQ's detailed overview of how to do high-volume vaccine clinics
- Michelle Nichols announced Practical Animal Hospice Care Video (Feb 2-16) www.AnimalHospiceGroup.org
- Jamie Case is still looking for organizations that are interested in joining the first International Shelter Slumber Pawty (taking place on March 25!). 100 shelters across 5 countries that will be participating. If you want to learn more, visit our website: https://shelterslumberpawty.com/
- HASS Behavior Job-Alike monthly meeting registration: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZYrf-ytrzwqH9KGvJ5S3iuOCSFGLEFM5cJK
- Alena Rurik: For those interested in helping animals in Ukraine, please visit Nova Ukraine's animal webpage: novaukraine.org/animals or shoot me an email at alena.rurik@novaukraine.org
- HSUS Animal Care Expo 2023: New Orleans 3-6
Presentation: Foster Solutions by Kelly Duer
Is your shelter or rescue full, or close to it? In this presentation, we'll look at successful techniques organizations around the country are using to place pets in foster homes and move foster pets on to permanent homes more quickly.
Related links:
I also saw a question in the chat about foster manuals! Here are links to example foster manuals that are available to download in the Maddie's Pet Forum Resource Library:
Highlights From The Chat
- "We had a particularly cold weekend in Nashville and we put out a call for fosters to "get dogs and cats out of the cold" (we do Crisis Foster Care). Because of the extreme weather event, we had more responses than ever before!" - Gabe Horton
- "We offer adoption trials for all our cats and connect one on one with the adopters which has helped keep cats in their adoptive home after finalizing" - Amanda Gray
- "We started doing foster to adopt due to delays in spay/neuter or limited staff to do adoptions. I wish we would have started to do this sooner" - Shelley Joaquin
- "We are foster based rescue. We officially implemented Foster to Adopt program and call adoptions "Foster Success". We did this after analyzing our statistics and learning that 68% of our adoptions were with their fosters." - Kriss Harrigian
- "This is my first meeting! Definitely helpful!! will be watching every Monday " - Rachel
- "I've already sent 2 ideas to my team!!" - Kelly Furnas
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Charlotte Otero
Community Strategist at Maddie's Fund
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Original Message:
Sent: 01-19-2023 12:03 PM
From: Maddie's Pet Forum Admin
Subject: Community Conversations - 1/23/23 - Foster Solutions
Updated 1/23/23 at 2:20pm - Recording now available to watch on-demand!
We hope you will join us on Monday, January 23, 2023 at 11am PT for our next Community Conversations call.
We will be joined by @Kelly Duer, Senior Community Solutions Specialist at Maddie's Fund for a presentation on Foster Solutions! Is your shelter or rescue full, or close to it? In this presentation, we'll look at successful techniques organizations around the country are using to place pets in foster homes and move foster pets on to permanent homes more quickly.
Register here for our Monday Community Conversations Calls: https://maddies.fund/CommunityConversationsRegistration
If you are unable to make it live on Monday, this thread will be updated with the recording and resources so you can watch and share whenever you'd like. After you watch the recording or attend the call, be sure to complete this January entry form to enter to win up to a $10,000 grant: https://www.maddiesfund.org/weekly-community-conversations-jan23-giveaway.htm
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