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Flexible Schedule
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Palm Springs, CA 92262
Best Friends is on a mission to end the killing of dogs and cats in America’s shelters by 2025. To achieve this mission, we are focusing heavily on Riverside County, where there is both extreme need but also extreme opportunity! Riverside County is home to a large homeless pet population. Riverside County Animal Services (RCAS) provides a huge service by taking in about 27,400 cats and dogs each year. Unfortunately, like many shelters, they struggle to find homes for many of these animals. In 2022, 17,831 (65%) of cats and dogs didn’t make it out of the shelter alive. Best Friends Animal Society would like to help RCAS increase their save rate to 90%. We are not daunted by the numbers because we know that Riverside County leadership and residents are capable of so much more! We could really use your help in our lifesaving programming and advocacy efforts in Riverside County! We are looking for volunteers to help us with any of the following volunteer roles: Advocacy Field Canvasser : will be going door-to-door in residential neighborhoods to speak with residents about local lifesaving initiatives to garner public support and action. Duties include distributing fliers, collecting survey responses, collecting signatures, and persuading people to adapt their perspectives. Learn more here: https://bit.ly/AdvocacyFieldCanvasserVol Advocacy Event Outreach : will "staff" Best Friends Animal Society tables at outreach events in order to distribute materials, speak to attendees about the Best Friends mission and no-kill priorities, and recruit supporters, donors, and volunteers to take action on local initiatives. Learn more here: https://bit.ly/AdvocacyEventOutreachVol Advocacy Campaign District Captain : will act as the local campaign lead and gather other local advocates to act in district activities around Best Friends Animal Society priorities including engaging with government officials, district residents, and other county stakeholders. Captains will organize their networks, neighbors, and community members to take action on activities such as council testimony and meetings with decision makers. Learn more here: https://bit.ly/AdvocacyCampaignDistrictCaptain Want to be part of this exciting lifesaving work in Riverside County? If so, please contact us at bfvolcoord@bestfriends.org. Black, Indigenous, People of color and LGBTQIA+ individuals are strongly encouraged to volunteer.
Date Posted: 2024-04-29
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Virtual Opportunity
Do you have a few hours to make some phone calls and send texts that can SAVE LIVES? Best Friends Animal Society has offered a Utah animal shelter a significant grant to support training and resources to implement a community cat program, but they have yet to accept. Utah County currently has the highest animal shelter euthanasia rate in the state of Utah. You can help change that! We are looking for volunteers to call Best Friends supporters in Utah County to ensure they take action and encourage the shelter's Board to accept our offer. Most of the time, our callers simply leave voicemail messages! Call scripts will be provided, and you can help with this campaign from anywhere in the US! Volunteer from home!
Date Posted: 2024-07-25
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Lawrence, KS 66046
Have you ever been on a long road trip, and after a full day of driving all you wanted was a warm, safe place to sleep and a good meal? Well, some dogs will soon be traveling in your direction, and they could use a little help from someone like you. Transports help save lives by taking dogs from shelters where they are at a high risk to rescue groups in other communities with higher save rates where they can be adopted into loving homes. You can be a part of this life-saving work by helping at a transport stop. Best Friends is transporting some adorable, adoptable dogs from Houston, Texas, to Minnesota, where they will find their forever homes. But before they get there, they’ll be stopping overnight in Lawrence, KS. These fuzzy, four-legged travelers will need a few volunteers to help them get situated for their brief stay. This will involve doing some unloading, taking them out for a bathroom break, making sure they are all fed, watered, and bedded down for the night, cleaning up their kennels and helping them get back on the road the following morning. We have monthly transports scheduled, and the volunteer shifts are typically as follows: Unloading shift when the transport arrives: 7:00-9:00 PM Time subject to change due to traffic, weather, etc. Flexibility is wonderful! Loading shift prior to departure the next morning: 6:30-8:30 AM If you would be interested in helping with our transport volunteer opportunities, please email us at bfvolcoord@bestfriends.org and we will get you added to our communications list to notify you when we have a transport scheduled! Because it's always more fun to volunteer with people you know, if you have any friends or family members (over 18, please) who are interested in joining us, please have them email us at bfvolcoord@bestfriends.org and we will get them signed up! Thank you for being a part of these lifesaving transports!!! We typically have 1 - 2 transports come through Lawrence, KS a month, for more information or to sign up, contact us at bfvolcoord@bestfriends.org.
Date Posted: 2024-07-03
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Sanford, FL 32773
Are you looking for an impactful volunteer opportunity you can do from home that will save lives of shelter pets? We are looking for phone banking volunteers to call registered voters of Seminole County, a high-priority county in Florida with one of the lowest live-release rates in the country. You do not need to live in Seminole County, FL to help! Phone bankers will be given scripts and call lists and will document the outcomes for each phone call (i.e. conversation notes, left a voicemail, and if the call recipient wants/needs more information or follow up) in the call list. The goal of these calls is to inform voters of the Change Save Seminole campaign, the newest no-kill campaign working to get Seminole County Animal Control to a 90% live release rate (they are currently at 64%). Training will be provided for all volunteers. For more information about this volunteer role: https://bit.ly/ActionAlertVol. More about the Change Save Seminole Campaign: Best Friends is on a mission to end the killing of dogs and cats in America’s shelters by 2025. To achieve this mission, we are focusing on lifesaving initiatives and advocacy efforts in targeted communities and we can use your help in Seminole County! Seminole County has a large homeless pet population. The Seminole County Animal Shelter (SCAS) provides a huge service by taking in about 5,600 cats and dogs each year. Unfortunately, like many shelters, they struggle to find homes for many of these animals. In 2022, 2,083 (64%) of cats and dogs didn’t make it out of the shelter alive. Best Friends Animal Society would like to help SCAS increase their save rate to 90% through new county policy and programming. We know the community has the empathy and energy to achieve this for these pets, but we could really use your help in our lifesaving initiatives and advocacy efforts in Seminole County! Learn more about the Change Save Seminole campaign: www.ChangeSaveSeminole.org Want to be part of this exciting lifesaving work in Seminole County? If so, please contact us at bfvolcoord@bestfriends.org. Black, Indigenous, People of color and LGBTQIA+ individuals are strongly encouraged to volunteer.
Date Posted: 2024-04-22
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Provo, UT 84601
Do you have a couple hours to make some phone calls that can SAVE LIVES? Best Friends has offered a northern Utah animal shelter a significant grant to support training and resources to implement a community cat program, but they have yet to accept. Utah County currently has the highest animal shelter euthanasia rate in the state of Utah. We are looking for volunteers to call Best Friends Animal Society supporters in Utah County to ensure they take action and encourage the shelter's Board to accept our offer. Most of the time, our callers simply leave voicemail messages! Call scripts will be provided, and you can actually help with this campaign from anywhere in the US! Volunteer from home!
Date Posted: 2024-07-25
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