When I was ED of a medium size dog shelter, I was operating blind with respect to what best of breed quantitative metrics in dog shelters was so I could understand why we were where we were, and maybe ask questions! My board wanted to understand benchmarks, and how we were doing relative to them. I couldn't find a service that would do it. I was thinking of creating one through some grant money. The sole purpose is to help shelters get better without the large expense of bringing in the DREADED (and expensive) consultant. I think all ED's can change their operations since they know their shelter best, so giving them information could help with donor efficiency, AND satisfy board mandates. Maybe integrating into Petstablished?
While this all sounds great on paper, this would be somewhat expensive to collect the data, and I would need some backing, and probably charge a small fee/year. I wanted to get some feedback on this. What you can measure you can better, and if things look poor, the data will explain why!
Please help before I embark on something stupid!
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Jeffrey Bianchi
ex-Executive Director
Adopt-A-Dog
NY
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