If your rescue, shelter, or pet food pantry runs on a stack of spreadsheets that do not talk to each other, this is for you.
We kept seeing the same thing on this forum. A family calls before they surrender, and that call, the most important moment in the whole story, gets a sticky note or nothing at all. Meanwhile the pantry log lives in one sheet, the animals in another, the foster list in a third, and none of it connects. Then a funder asks what you actually did last quarter and you lose a weekend stitching it together by hand.
So we built a free tool to fix that. It is the Animal Welfare Resource Network (AWRN). It is webbased, so there is nothing to install and no Access database for your IT department to block. It runs in any browser. In one place it tracks:
• Calls. Every call that comes in before a surrender, who it was, what they needed, and how it was resolved, plus the missed calls, so you can finally show your real demand.
• People and their animals, linked together, with history.
• Food distributions by type with pound-equivalents, by month and by site, and it imports from your existing spreadsheet.
• Cases, fosters, adoptions, and the follow-ups afterward.
• Reports, including the pieces you need for Shelter Animals Count.
Here is the part that makes it different from a single-org database. It is a network.
With a family's permission, a person and animal record can move between partner organizations, so a pantry can hand a family to a spay/neuter clinic, a rescue can pass a courtesy post to another rescue, and nobody re-enters data or makes the family retell their story. It is free for in-kind community partners, pantries and small rescues included. And it is real and in use, with beta partners running actual cases in Colorado and New Mexico right now, not a someday promise.
If you are drowning in spreadsheets, or if the call that comes in before the shelter is the data you most wish you were catching, I would love to show you. Comment here, send me a message, or grab a time at calendly.com/animal-angels.
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BJ Adkins
Founder/Director
Animal-Angels Foundation
Pinson, AL
calendy.com/animal-angels
bjadkins@animal-angels.organimal-angelsfoundation.org
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