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Last year, on this very blog, Dr. Steven Hansen, Arizona Humane Society (AHS)’s President & CEO, challenged the field to the Great CAWA Throwdown, with his goal for AHS to achieve the distinction of the organization with the most CAWA-certified team members on staff.

Tip of the Week: Setting the Ground Rules

In case you missed last month’s HASS-hosted webinar, Coalition Building for Animal Care Organizations, today’s tip highlights the importance of setting ground rules for meetings. While The Association’s Katherine Shenar and Shelly Moore of Humane Society of Charlotte were focusing their presentation on coalitions, you may find these rules apply to many types of meetings.

10 Reasons to Get WiLD Every Year

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Tip of The Week: It’s Not About The Toilet Paper…

It’s only the first week of the year, and already we’re on a roll. Here’s a reminder from The Animal Protective Association of Missouri‘s Kim Brown that in order to solve a conflict, it’s crucial to get at the root of the tissue, er, issue.

10 Most Talked-About Resources of 2021

This blog’s all you—all your suggestions, that is. Over the past year, we listened and took notes as you passed along your favorite books, tech tools, websites, links and videos.

Most Popular Webinar Recordings of 2021

Here are the 10 juiciest, most actionable and thought-provoking webinars you kept coming back to. Catch up on those you missed and let us know if they bring you any aha! moments.

A Toast to 2022 and the Future of Animal Welfare

Grateful to be here with you to wrap up another year, and to share a toast for the year ahead. Thank you to The Association’s Jim Tedford and Joann Fuller of Hill’s Pet Nutrition for providing the bubbly convo and ringing us in to 2022.

Tip of the Week: A Very Important Date

You are reading the last Tip of the Week for 2021. The clock’s ticking, so we’re getting time-sensitive and tried-and-true, thanks to Humane Network’s Bonney Brown & Diane Blankenburg.

Best of the Blog 2021

Here are some of your most-read posts from 2021. Whether you’re a regular visitor or reading for the first time, feel free to leave us a comment on any of these posts, and let us know what you think.

Rural Challenges in Animal Welfare, Part 3: One Size Does Not Fit All

In Part 2 of his series on Rural Challenges in Animal Welfare, Cole Wakefield, Animal Services Director for Good Shepherd Humane Society, discussed the availability, and lack thereof, of human resources in rural communities. Today he brings up three additional challenges that just may surprise you.

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