Traditional boards fulfill a critical role in animal welfare organizations.  But, what if you are ready to expand your organization’s size, mission, or reach?  Could it be time to build an advisory board?  Advisory boards operate in tandem with the board of directors and when executed properly can serve as a conduit for community influence and resources.  Join us as we explore the do this and please don’t do that of working with high level volunteers.

In this session participants will examine the lifecycles of nonprofits, identify opportunities and challenges of adding an advisory board, and create an opportunity matrix to guide them on community recruitment for possible board members.

Presenter

Carrie Collins-Fadell, MPA

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Founders Board = Bad

A Founder’s Board is a board that isn’t really governing the organization – they are leaving that to you, the founder. Instead, that board is rubber stamping what you think should be done. After all, these are your family and friends. They want to support your efforts. They are certainly not there to create family feuds by suggesting you might not be right!

Governing Board = Good

A Governing Board – one that provides the leadership of the organization, that sets direction and policy, that provides financial oversight and ensures adequate resources to expenditures. A good Governing Board is your way to freedom and a life.  I promise because it happened to me.

Come learn how to give up the reins and ride your non-profit into a successful future.

Presenter

Bonnie Hill, Founder and Advisor, Spay Neuter Network

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When workplace meetings shifted from real to virtual platforms, many assumed their communication and presentation approaches could stay the same. But a room is not a Zoom. Meeting participants need to adopt new communication mindsets and tactics to maximize the new medium. In this hour-long interactive workshop, ASPCA Senior Director of Strategic and Executive Communications Joel Schwartzberg will show you how to enhance your points, presence, and impact from the other side of the screen.

The workshop—designed for participants at all levels of skill and experience—covers the following topics:

• Understanding and overcoming “Zoom Fatigue”
• Effective point-making in virtual environments
• Optimal visual framing
• Meeting mindfulness
• Minimizing distractions
• Eye contact and volume training
• Strategic use of chat
• Active listening

Presenter

Joel Schwartzberg, Senior Director of Strategic and Executive Communications, ASPCA

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In this presentation, Dr. Pizano will outline the foundational elements for a successful animal welfare program in every community that starts by keeping pets from entering the shelter.

Topics from public policy and community initiatives to shelter population management and live outcome programs will be discussed.

Dr. Pizano is the author of The Best Practice Playbook for Animal Shelters now available as an ebook on Amazon and Apple books. She is also the principal consultant and creator of Team Shelter USA, a faculty member at the University of Florida and an advisor to the Million Cat Challenge.

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Are you considering launching, or have recently launched, a RTF/SNR/TNR program and are now dealing with an onslaught of questions and/or pushback from your community about why you’re putting cats/kittens back where they came from? Are you being accused of abandonment? Wreaking havoc on the environment, birds, gardens, peace AND quiet? Although it may not feel like it at times, you and your community share the same goal. Whether you identify as an animal welfare professional, a bird lover, someone who just wants these cats out of your yard, or all of the above, we’re all here for the most effective, sustainable way to reduce the number of cats living outside. Our challenge lies in communicating the benefits of a proven strategy that can often seem counterintuitive to those new to feline management.

Join this all-star panel:
Maddie’s® Director of Feline Lifesaving, Monica Frenden
HSUS Senior Analyst, Cat Protection & Policy, Danielle Bays
Executive Director of Stray Cat Alliance, Christi Metropole

They will give answers to the top ten questions you receive about TNR, SNR, returning cats, and let us know how to message community cat program alignment with our universally-held goal of managing feline populations.

Want to be sure your question is addressed? Email #allthecats@millioncatchallenge.org and we’ll queue it up for showtime.

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Cats in animal shelters are uniquely prone to upper respiratory infections, aka URI or “the cat common cold”. These infections are complicated. They are inextricably tied to stress and crowding in cats. They can be caused by a number of viruses and bacteria. You can’t vaccinate or treat your way out of an established URI problem. Affected cats are often treated with antibiotics, even though infections are often viral, and this can result in poor appetite, vomiting, diarrhea and resistant infections. Chronic URI can be a nightmare for shelters and adopters, and can sometimes cause severe health issues.

This presentation will focus on newer shelter medicine approaches to URI – prevention strategies that have succeeded to the point that many shelters no longer have a “URI problem”; when to isolate affected cats and when that’s not needed; when diagnostic tests are needed and which ones are useful; when to treat and with what; and how to manage a newly adopted cat that is sneezing. RACE Approved!

Dr. Linda Jacobson obtained her veterinary degree in Pretoria, South Africa, in 1986, and went on to specialize in companion animal internal medicine. She has been at the Toronto Humane Society since 2010, where she is currently Senior Manager, Shelter Medicine Advancement.

In 2015 she completed a Graduate Certificate in Shelter Medicine through the University of Florida. Linda is co-founder and President and Treasurer of the Ontario Shelter Medicine Association. She serves on the Standard of Care Working Group of the College of Veterinarians of Ontario and Toronto Humane Society’s Unsocial Cat Working Group.  Her professional passions and interests include accessible veterinary care, infectious diseases, animal hoarding, and evidence-based medicine.

WEBSITE LINK:  https://everycat.org/thinking-outside-the-snot-shelter-medicine-approaches-to-upper-respiratory-infections-in-cats/

Agency describes the overall amount of control an animal has over its environment. Control is a big buzzword in the dog world right now. There is an increasing call from professionals to give our dogs more control. How do agency and control actually impact behavior? Why are they so important? Luckily for trainers, we have many decades worth of research on this topic! And the research suggests that providing animals with a sense of agency is critically important for promoting their emotional wellbeing. It turns out that control changes how the brain functions and can influence the animal’s entire world view!

This talk will start with a discussion of learned helplessness and what it tells us about the impact of lack of control. I will cover how control (or lack of it) influences brain function and how it can change an animal’s approach to his or her environment in dramatic ways. Finally, we will talk about different ways of increasing control for our dogs. This webinar is great for puppies and adult dogs and for pet owners and professionals alike.

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Date: Thursday, June 17, 2021
Time: 3pm Pacific Time (Click here for time at FDSA (Pacific Time).
Fee: $19.95 – Registration required PRIOR to scheduled presentation time.
Instructor: Kristina Spaulding, PhD, CAAB

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