Fraily Rodriguez
As we begin the final preparations for the 2022 Best Friends National Conference happening next week, we sit down with one of this year’s speakers, the director of lifesaving centers for the east regi...
30 Jun 202249min
If "nobody's perfect," then why do we expect all pet adopters to be? (rebroadcast)
The Best Friends National Adoption Weekend is coming up July 22nd-24th. This network partner exclusive event helps organizations like yours adopt more animals. To learn more about the event and to reg...
23 Jun 202236min
Dr. Louiza Chan
The animal welfare field is full of incredible people doing extraordinary things to save lives. This week we chatted with one of them, the regional strategist for the south-central region at Best Frie...
16 Jun 202226min
The 2021 Lifesaving Dataset
When saving shelter pets' lives, you can't know what's working or not if you're not tracking your efforts. So in 2016, Best Friends began an ambitious project to create the most comprehensive and accu...
9 Jun 202247min
Using transparency to empower and support your community
As we talked about in last week’s episode, many communities across the country are struggling as they try to deal with crisis levels of shelter capacity. More pets than usual are coming in, and while ...
2 Jun 202253min
Marketing during a crisis w/ KC Pet Project's Tori Fugate
Many animal shelters across the country are struggling right now. In most areas, intake is up, and positive outcomes are down. With other factors impacting our industry, such as staffing issues and th...
26 Mai 202243min
Gaining the hiring edge during "the great reshuffle”
The COVID-19 pandemic has profoundly affected our lives in many ways, and it seems to have transformed the American workforce.Last year the experts dubbed the shifting economy “the great resignation” ...
19 Mai 202242min
Building better boards
This week we're talking about an important but often underutilized and sometimes dysfunctional component of every nonprofit organization - the board of directors.Boards can take on different forms, bu...
12 Mai 202238min
