Community Outreach
Kitten Season Template: Myth vs. Fact for Instagram Stories
These templates built specifically for a fun way to supplement traditional fact sheets and educational kitten season materials for your organization. Click download below to jump into Canva and customize the colors and logos, add additional facts or myths, and then download/send them to your phone. Using these designs and the “Poll” sticker in Instagram…
Read MorePrintable Valentine’s Day Cards
Give the kiddos (and kids-at-heart) in your community a way to celebrate Valentine’s Day in style, featuring adoptable pets! Completely customizable, you can add specific pet and organization details, change up the colors or fonts, and add pet photos. Then print these double-sided on light cardstock for a fun giveaway, or provide them digitally for…
Read MoreCommunity-Focused Communications Strategy
Keeping more families and pets together requires a strategic approach to getting the word out about your organization’s community-focused philosophy and programs. Throughout the past year, together with Human Animal Support Services, we have created a series of communications kits to help you talk to your constituents about the many ways that you are supporting…
Read MoreCommunications Kit: Community Partnerships
When animal services agencies connect with other organizations, businesses, and agencies, both benefit to better support people and pets where they live. Community partnerships come in all shapes and sizes, and truly the sky is the limit! But like any good partnership, success will come from clear communication and a collaborative spirit. This three-part kit…
Read MoreCommunications Kit: Volunteer Integration
Volunteers are engaged in every area of operations in a community-centered animal shelter—fully integrated into driving forward the mission, vision, and values of the organization. There is no limit to the roles volunteers can play, calling on their interests, skills, networks, and bandwidth. Some of these roles can even be done remotely! This communications kit…
Read MoreCommunications Kit: Neighbors Helping Neighbors
A key way to keep people and pets together, and pets from unnecessarily entering shelters, is through community support—neighbors helping neighbors. Good communication about this topic will help your community see the importance of community support—and will also offer concrete ways they can participate. Communities are stronger when we support each other, including each other’s…
Read MoreCommunications Kit: Supported Self-Rehoming
Approximately a quarter of animals entering animal shelters come in under the intake type called “owner surrender.” Supported self-rehoming is a way for organizations to help people find new homes for their pets, without those pets ever needing to enter the physical shelter. This kit will help raise awareness with pet owners about what self-rehoming…
Read MoreCommunications Kit: Big Dogs
When it comes to medium and large dogs, they face some of the most unique challenges both within our sheltering systems and within the community: They are disproportionately impacted by restrictive adoption policies, housing policies, and even laws. When times are tough for families, big dogs are some of the first to be impacted. Ultimately,…
Read MoreCommunications Kit: Lost Pet Reunification
Lost pet reunification focuses on getting lost pets home to their people, and preventing pets from becoming lost again. Over the years, the animal sheltering field has come to recognize that many of the animals who we’ve historically referred to as “stray” are likely lost. They come to us well-cared for and in some cases,…
Read MoreCommunications Kit: Space Crisis
When space crises strike, we need the community’s support and action to help us save lives. Whatever the inciting cause, the domino effect of space crisis situations means we need to get more pets into homes (foster or adoptive) faster, keep more pets with their families (and therefore out of the shelter), and simultaneously keep…
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