Animal Welfare Professionals

I know that there have been a lot of Trello board threads and some amazing examples but I have a couple questions that I didn't find in past threads.

We currently use Facebook for our foster pleas.  We have some fosters that aren't on FB so we keep a list with their names and will contact them directly.  Our FB page is so cluttered and older posts of animals that need fostering get lost.  We post dogs, cats, puppies, kittens, rabbits, guinea pigs, etc, all on the same page.  We also have informational/educational posts plus our proud and excited fosters will post photos of their current foster animal on there.  As I said, cluttered!

If we switch to Trello, can we set it up that we get alerts when someone is interested?  Or would they just get a link to our emails or a scheduling software option?  Does the shelter need to pay for using Trello?  Will our fosters need to pay to use it?

Thanks in advance,

My shelter is not currently using Trello but I've used it for some personal and professional projects in the past. It looks like they do offer non-profit pricing. 

You may be able to do what you are looking for with the free version. If I was looking to use Trello, I would start by making my own personal free account and playing around with the board to see how I would want to get things configured. From what I recall, you can get email notifications when other users comment on items.

This is a really interesting approach to organizing fosters digitally outside of a social media platform. I'm curious to see what you end up doing!

Hi, Ellen! When I use Trello I just put my email address/phone number/appt scheduling link/however I'd like to be contacted on the board so that when people are interested they contact me or the relevant staff directly. Trello will remain free so long as there are less than 10 administrators (users with editing access) on your board. Trello DOES have integrations with Zapier so depending on if you'd like to be notified of interest a different way, there's probably a way to configure it through Zapier.