Animal Welfare Professionals

A list of community partnership examples.

Partnership Examples

• Partner with local human food pantries to discuss pet food resources for families using the pantry
• Partner with or join local food pantry coalition to establish programming to impact your region
• Partner with the health department on a human and pet vaccine initiative
• Partner with other rescues and shelters to establish transfer relationship
• Join local chamber of commerce to share mission and garner business support
• Join local COAD (Community Organizations Active in Disaster)
• Establish partnerships with local veterinarians and veterinary clinics offering free or low-cost services
• Establish relationship with local social services to ensure pets in the home have necessities that may be offered at your organization AND to ensure resources are known/available if an animal is at risk to become homeless
• Findhelp.org to help identify agencies in your community
• Partner with government agencies on informational campaign(s)/PR/initiatives
• Partner with human shelters to create a temporary boarding or placement program for pets
• Partner with boarding facilities to offer boarding to families during crisis
• Join local coalitions, collaboratives and/or collective impacts driving change in your community
• Partner with local Amazon, Fed-Ex and UPS distribution centers and pet stores to take in returns and broken bags of food and litter to distribute to pantries and/or foster families
• Establish a disaster plan with local Red Cross and government 
• Partner with local groomers to provide low-cost or subsidized grooming services to families in need
• Partner with fire and police departments to provide them microchip scanners to help lost pets 
• Partner with local trainers to provide low-cost or subsidized training
• Partner with local attorney(s) on public education regarding tenants rights and breed-specific legislation
• Partner with government agencies on pet registration events
• Partner with municipalities/neighborhoods with high pet intake to set up vaccination and microchipping pop-up clinics providing free services and information
• Partner with municipalities to list lost and found pets in their community on website and social media
• Collaborate with animal welfare organizations in the community to establish streamlined and collectively shared steps for the public to take when they lost or found a pet
• Collaborate with animal welfare organizations in the community on events (fundraising and/or adoption)
• Collaborate with animal welfare organization in the community to provide an annual success report sharing with the public the work that has been done by shelters/rescues
• Partner with local schools on projects: dog house building, art creation for auction, shelter reading
• Partner with local government agencies to provide workforce development or work readiness opportunities
• Partner with the local public health department on program initiatives