On May 5, 2020, in response to the unprecedented need created by the coronavirus (COVID-19) crisis, GivingTuesday is organizing #GivingTuesdayNow, a global day of giving and unity. This international campaign is aimed at triggering an outpouring of financial, volunteer, and advocacy support for first responders and nonprofits which feed, house, educate, and inform local communities. 

GivingTuesday’s Chief Strategy Officer, Jamie McDonald, will share ideas and approaches to inspire donations and citizen engagement to support communities and nonprofits. #GivingTuesdayNow encourages all forms of generosity from simple acts of support, like helping neighbors, to direct giving to nonprofits. This webinar will offer ideas for activating on the day.  

A Special Welcome to:

Nonprofit and foundation professionals, development staff, marketing staff, executive directors, and program officers

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1 CFRE point(s)

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All levels of experience

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When you register for this webinar, you receive:

• a full recording,

associated handout(s), if applicable

Featuring

Speaker: Susan Spaudling

We are taking a deep dive into more advanced topics and special problems in regards to feeding bottle-babies. We’ll answer some of your frequently asked questions and also discuss incubators, nubulizers and more!

Join us for this FREE training to enrich and develop your kitten-care skills.

This webinar will discuss Fading Kitten Syndrome including signs, causes and treatments. With the information provided in the webinar, veterinary technicians will understand these aspects of FKS and be better able to educate clients on how to help kittens by recognizing early signs of fading, taking immediate and appropriate action, and by providing them with proper daily care to prevent the avoidable cases of fading kitten syndrome from ever occuring in the first place. This webinar is open to all, but intended for veterinary technicians. This program has been approved by the AAVSB for 1 hour of continuing education credit for credentialed veterinary technicians in jurisdictions that recognize RACE approval. Program Number: 995-37451.
This program is provided by a grant from Maddie’s Fund® #ThankstoMaddie.
*Note* Others may attend this webinar as space is available. CE credit can only be obtained during the live webinar, and it will NOT be available as a recording. CE credit can only be obtained once per registrant.

Want to know how to help undersocialized kittens get adopted? Join us as we cover how the ASPCA Adoption Center and Kitten Nursery have leveraged their foster volunteer pool and trained them to work with fearful kittens using scientifically proven techniques. This webinar will take a deep dive into the “Lion Tamers” program with a spotlight on behavior best practices. We will also provide tools and resources for how to provide training, support and guidance to foster volunteers.

Takeaways:
•How to effectively place fearful kittens in foster homes
•How to effectively train foster volunteers to care for fearful kittens while providing tools, resources and support
•Behavior best practices for working with undersocialized kittens and effectively placing them into loving homes

Suited for:
Animal shelter staff, behavior staff, foster volunteers

https://aspca.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_Vp31W6rFTzyAFpgZeBQeDg

Response to the COVID-19 pandemic has brought the animal welfare community together in an unprecedented way to assess the services we provide to our community and to evaluate our protocols and processes. This need for assessment and evaluation was particularly important for our intake and care decisions for neonatal kittens. We will review the existing best practices that provide a consistent foundation for success in neonatal kitten care as well as discuss which practices adopted during the pandemic response are likely to withstand the test of time.

Takeaways:
– Strategies to keep kittens healthy in foster homes
– Keeping resident pets safe
– Recognize disease in foster kittens

Suited For
Foster caregivers, shelter staff and volunteers

https://aspca.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_B5NsYlrYR0KA-O7y84oVrw

Do you dread putting a found dog on Instagram because the public will declare that you have him on death row? Do you struggle to respond to cranky questions about your agency in public forums? Do you find yourself on pins and needles when making a tough decision on a cat who is a Facebook favorite? Learn new approaches to dealing with abusive language, primarily in social media situations.  This session will offer you guidance on constructive public messaging on sensitive industry topics and help you turn the page on keyboard warriors.

This webinar has been pre-approved for 1 Certified Animal Welfare Administrator continuing education credit.

This session is part four of the five-part Going Through Hell? Keep Going! webinar series.

https://theaawa.org/events/EventDetails.aspx?id=1331916

April 23, 2020 by Kelly Duer, Foster Care Specialist, Maddie’s Fund^® and Rachel Jones, Adult Dog Foster Coordinator, Pima Animal Care Center

Audience: Executive Leadership, Shelter/Rescue Staff & Volunteers, Veterinary Team

Recently, shelters and rescues across the country have placed more pets in foster homes than ever before. Now, how can we keep them from coming back before they’re adopted?

This webcast will outline strategies from several progressive organizations that are empowering foster caregivers to assist in efforts to market their foster pets online. Through training, automating processes and making sending foster pet feedback as easy as possible, these organizations are setting up their pets and foster caregivers for success.

Join us on Thursday, April 23, 2020 at 3:00pm Pacific / 6:00p Eastern

This webcast will be recorded.

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