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Animal Welfare Leadership Roundup - Friday 6/24/22 - Collective Actions in Response to the Current Situation in Animal Shelters

  • 1.  Animal Welfare Leadership Roundup - Friday 6/24/22 - Collective Actions in Response to the Current Situation in Animal Shelters

    Posted 06-23-2022 03:16 PM
    Updated 6/24/22 at 1:10pm PT - Recording Now Available to Watch On-Demand. This is the last Friday call! Be sure to complete this form to enter to win a grant after attending the live call or watching on-demand: https://www.maddiesfund.org/friday-community-conversations-jun22-giveaway.htm

    Please note: All views expressed on Community Conversations calls are not necessarily endorsed by Maddie’s Fund.


    Hi Everyone,

    Please join us tomorrow for our final Friday Animal Welfare Leadership Round-up call before a two week summer break. After our break, our brand new combined Monday/Friday call will begin. You will be receiving registration instructions soon!

    We know things are really tough right now.

    Tomorrow, we will have our final meeting to discuss collective actions to respond to the current situation in animal shelters. We have spent three meetings so far on this topic because it is impacting so many. We are going to add one, final conversation about this so we can translate conversation into action!

    If your shelter is struggling with space, resources, short-staffing, or morale and you are interested in being part of collective action to inspire our communities to help, please try to join us for this meeting. If this is not an issue for you or you don't wish to be part of collective action, you can probably skip this one and rejoin us in July when we reconvene after the Best Friends conference and our summer recess.

    When we return, we will be meeting on a different day and time (announcement forthcoming) and will once again have a lineup of external speakers from various fields, backgrounds, and subject matter experts. If you would like to be a speaker or to suggest a speaker for late summer 2022, please reach out to me directly at kristen.hassen@americanpetsalive.org.

    Here is our agenda for tomorrow:
    1. Welcome and updates
    2. Recap of previous three meetings and status update (what we have done since the last meeting
    3. Check in with the current situation for shelters
    4. National adoption event schedule 
    5. Final decision on the what
    6. Date-setting for action and list of what we need
    7. Plan and how we will communicate moving forward

    Thank you!

    Maddie's Friday Animal Welfare Leadership Roundup (LINK TO REGISTER)


    Quick Reminder: You can also watch previous recordings and continue the conversation at
    Maddie's Pet Forum!  



  • 2.  RE: Animal Welfare Leadership Roundup - Friday 6/24/22 - Collective Actions in Response to the Current Situation in Animal Shelters

    Posted 06-24-2022 01:27 PM
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    Thanks to everyone who joined us live for the final Friday Animal Welfare Leadership Roundup Call! The recording is now available to watch on-demand for those who missed it. 

    Starting Monday, July 18, 2022 we will be combining both our Monday & Friday calls into ONE national community conversation happening on Mondays at 11am Pacific. Even if you were registered for the Monday and/or Friday calls, please be sure to re-register to receive the new link to attend the combined weekly meeting here: https://maddies.fund/CommunityConversationsRegistration

    Below is a recap of today's call and attached you can find a full copy of the agenda, resources and chat file. 

    Agenda
    Share the Care Campaign and Community Messaging (continued discussion from 6/17/22)
    In this meeting we discussed collective actions to respond to the current situation in animal shelters. We have spent three meetings so far on this topic because it is impacting so many. Next step: translate conversation into action! 

    Host: Kristen Hassen, Director, American Pets Alive! 

    QOTD: How are you doing today on a scale of 1-10 or a one-word descriptor?

    Pets and Housing Tools 

    Big Dog Tools

      National Updates/related links 



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      Charlotte Otero
      Community Strategist at Maddie's Fund
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