Foster Friday everyday! Creating a community culture that values pet fostering
This post was originally published in 2019. If you’re interested in growing your animal shelter or rescue organization’s foster program, creating a community culture that values fostering is critical. One of the easiest ways to begin doing this is to bring foster care into the conversation as much as possible in your organization’s communications. Talking about foster care helps to normalize it within the community. When your supporters constantly see photos and hears stories of pets in foster homes, fostering...
Maddie’s Weekly Roundup: Cat behavior data, pet-inclusive housing and more!
Happy Monday! Below is a brief roundup of resources added over the past week. Learn how to engage rental housing providers in pet-inclusive approachesAnimal shelters and rescue organizations are often on the receiving end of pet surrenders due to complex rental housing issues that are difficult to address in the moment. Recognizing the need for sustainable solutions, Michelson Found Animals’ Pet-Inclusive Housing Initiative (PIHI) has developed resources to help animal welfare organizations more effectively engage rental housing...
Learn how to engage rental housing providers in pet-inclusive approaches
Animal shelters and rescue organizations are often on the receiving end of pet surrenders due to complex rental housing issues that are difficult to address in the moment. Recognizing the need for sustainable solutions, Michelson Found Animals’ Pet-Inclusive Housing Initiative (PIHI) has developed resources to help animal welfare organizations more effectively engage rental housing providers with pet-inclusive approaches to help build happier, healthier communities. Through this session, the PIHI team will provide a path for having more...
Join us for a webcast on using behavior data to monitor well-being in cats
Maddie’s® Insights is our ongoing webcast series with practical tips based on current research to help pets and people. Our guest speaker for the November 14, 12PM PT/3PM ET webcast is Jacklyn Ellis, PhD and the Director of Behavior at Toronto Humane Society. Safeguarding the well-being of cats is essential to the mission of any responsible animal shelter. Environmental enrichment and behavior modification are often key to this goal. Measuring response to these interventions is essential to ensure strategies are successful....
Maddie’s Weekly Roundup: Register for Camp Maddie, holiday fostering and more!
Happy Monday! Below is a brief roundup of resources added over the past week. The September Weekly Community Conversations grant giveaway winners are…Earlier this month, Maddie’s Fund® gave two organizations a $2,500 grant for attending the September Weekly Community Conversations! A total of $5,000 in grants has been given to two viewers chosen at random. Join us in congratulating the two people who won a grant for their organization: Susan Leavitt, American Maltese Association Rescue (Fort Bragg,… Learn More...
Ohio animal shelter has huge success with short-term holiday fostering
This post originally ran in 2017. With Thanksgiving approaching and other holidays to follow, we thought this would be the perfect opportunity to reshare what Humane Society of Delaware County (HSDC) in Ohio learned about short-term fostering. What do you do when your shelter offers short-term “holiday” dog-fostering over Thanksgiving, and nearly half of those dogs fostered get adopted… including seniors, a shy dog and other long-term residents? If you’re the Humane Society of Delaware County (HSDC) in Ohio, you...
Maddie’s Weekly Roundup: Pet-inclusive housing event, hurricane response grants and more!
Happy Monday! Below is a brief roundup of resources added over the past week. Camp Maddie: Pet-Inclusive Housing Edition is coming on November 13!Camp Maddie is back! Join us for the third edition of Camp Maddie, a free virtual half-day event on Wednesday, November 13th from 9AM-1PM PT / 12PM-4PM ET. Across the country, many people face tough choices due to housing restrictions, often having to give up their pets. At Camp Maddie: Pet-Inclusive Housing Edition, we will cover a variety of topics related to pet housing in presentations, videos...
Your best leadership sources
In honor of Maddie’s Fund® celebrating 30 years as a family foundation this year, we wanted to highlight a few leadership sources that have been shared on Maddie’s Pet Forum over the years. Launched in 2017, Maddie’s® Pet Forum is a safe space for animal well-being professionals to seek support by way of resources, collaboration and community. Leadership sets the tone for an organization. Whether it’s a book on leadership or diversifying your board, here are some resources to help. Leadership Resource DriveIn...
The top 5 Community Conversations of all time
Maddie’s Fund® is celebrating 30 years! To commemorate, we are taking a look back at some of the impact that has been made for companions and pets (thanks to you!), as well as looking forward. Today, we’re highlighting the growth and impact of Community Conversations. These 50-minute weekly calls started as a safe space for animal well-being professionals in 2020 during Covid, and officially became “Community Conversations” in 2022. Today, the calls are a collaborative space to share exciting new...
Maddie’s Weekly Roundup: ASPCA grant opportunities, pet-inclusive housing and more!
Happy Monday! Below is a brief roundup of resources added over the past week. Learn how to advocate for and design programs to support pet-inclusive housing solutionsHomelessness is a growing epidemic in the United States. According to the State of Homelessness: 2024 Edition report released by the National Alliance to End Homelessness, a record-high 653,104 people experienced homelessness on a single night in January 2023. More people than ever are experiencing homelessness for the first time and severe housing...
