Weekly Community Conversations - Expand Spay and Neuter with MASH

When:  Feb 2, 2026 from 11:00 AM to 11:50 AM (PT)
Associated with  Animal Welfare Professionals

Expand Spay and Neuter with MASH

Join us for this engaging and informative Community Conversation, “Expand Spay/Neuter with MASH,” where we’ll explore what M.A.S.H. style sterilization clinics truly are and how they can help you increase access to care in your community. This session will empower you to be creative with your shelter space, (and other spaces too!), team and equipment to help increase spay/neuter capacity for your shelter or community animals (community cats included!)


Led by Megan Gram, CAWA/Operations Director and Renee Gutierrez, RVT/M.A.S.H. Responder for Animal Balance, these speakers bring a wide variety of skills and knowledge to this discussion. With over 20 years of experience implementing M.A.S.H. clinics and community partnerships worldwide, and now here in the U.S., Animal Balance is one of the only organizations working both in the US and internationally to increase spay/neuter capacity in this way.

This session is designed for clinic staff, shelter staff or volunteers who want to help increase spay/neuter capacity in their communities. Together we will discuss Animal Balance’s program model and how you can transform your shelter, local community center or the high school gymnasium into a safe, efficient and effective high quality, high volume sterilization clinic while adhering to state regulations and laws.

About Community Conversations:
Maddie’s Fund hosts a weekly hour-long Zoom call for animal well-being professionals. These calls are a collaborative space to share exciting new programs and research, discuss uncomfortable topics, connect with peers in the industry, and more, all while sharing a common goal of preserving the human-animal bond.

This call, recurring each Monday unless otherwise posted, is for executive directors, animal well-being leaders, shelter workers, pet support professionals, volunteers, and rescue organizations.

The registration link is: https://maddies.fund/CommunityConversationsRegistration2025


All calls are recorded and uploaded to the Community Conversations page on Maddie’s Pet Forum https://forum.maddiesfund.org/communityconversations

Enter for a chance to win up to $10,000.
Each month, Maddie's Fund will be giving away up to $10,000 in grants. You can enter to win each time you attend a call or watch on-demand during the month by completing the giveaway drawing entry forms shared in the chat during the calls.

Please Note: All views expressed on these calls are not necessarily endorsed by Maddie’s Fund. 


#Access to Care
#Education and Training
#Medicine, Surgery and Sterilization
#Pet Support Services *

Comments

01-29-2026 08:05 AM

I am glad to see this topic being covered.  We have been holding MASH clinics in the Community Room at Habitat for Humanity and also on our annual trip to Guatemala.  

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When:  Feb 2, 2026 from 11:00 AM to 11:50 AM (PT)
Associated with  Animal Welfare Professionals

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Url: https://maddies.fund/communityconversations2226
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