Animal Welfare Professionals

This is my first post/question.

Adopt Me! Bluegrass Pet Rescue is an all-volunteer, growing rescue of all breeds of cats and dogs. Like most, we need more volunteers.

I came up with the idea to take our donated newspapers - which are either opened flat or shredded for our puppy crates - to a local senior center that partners with the neighboring residential differently-abled community. I thought it would be a good way for these populations to help, feel needed and fill a need of our rescue. We are working on finding a dog or cat that we currently foster that could safely come in for the volunteers to meet and pet.

My question is, are there other untapped volunteer resources that other shelters or rescues are using? Our incredible "in-house" volunteers are diligently working on feeding, cleaning, exercising and fostering/adopting. I'm an out of the box thinker, and I'd love to "take the work" to the volunteers if they cannot come to us.

Thank you in advance for any direction.

#MarketingandSocialMedia

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Amy Charles
volunteer
Adopt Me! Bluegrass Pet Rescue
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Social media used to take a lot of my time. We found a highschooler to run our Instagram which feeds directly to Facebook one less thing I have to worry about. If you have a physical location, I recommend talking to local college groups, highschool key clubs, and boy scout groups to come out and do all the yard work, wash dogs, and walk dogs! We have a sewing club that takes in a lot of washed blankets and quilts them together to the exact dimensions of our cat cages and raised dog beds! They are the best!! If you have a college near you, they most likely have a marketing/journalism major. Find students to do your newsletters if you do those.

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Rachel Aune
Board Member
Friends of Mobile animal shelter
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Original Message:
Sent: 01-31-2023 11:24 AM
From: Amy Charles
Subject: Community Outreach

This is my first post/question.

Adopt Me! Bluegrass Pet Rescue is an all-volunteer, growing rescue of all breeds of cats and dogs. Like most, we need more volunteers.

I came up with the idea to take our donated newspapers - which are either opened flat or shredded for our puppy crates - to a local senior center that partners with the neighboring residential differently-abled community. I thought it would be a good way for these populations to help, feel needed and fill a need of our rescue. We are working on finding a dog or cat that we currently foster that could safely come in for the volunteers to meet and pet.

My question is, are there other untapped volunteer resources that other shelters or rescues are using? Our incredible "in-house" volunteers are diligently working on feeding, cleaning, exercising and fostering/adopting. I'm an out of the box thinker, and I'd love to "take the work" to the volunteers if they cannot come to us.

Thank you in advance for any direction.

#MarketingandSocialMedia

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Amy Charles
volunteer
Adopt Me! Bluegrass Pet Rescue
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