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Collaboration is essential in animal welfare, maximizing resources and keeping the focus on lifesaving efforts rather than internal conflicts. By fostering partnerships and using a common language, organizations can effectively promote community coalitions, ensuring all healthy and treatable pets are saved. The Asilomar Accords emphasize the importance of transparency and mutual respect, leading to improved reporting and public confidence. With tools like Maddie’s Comparative Database, shelters can compare their statistics and strive towards a no-kill outcome, benefiting both animals and communities.
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The Importance ofCollaboration • Collaboration maximizes resources • Collaboration keeps the focus on lifesaving, not infighting
The Importance of Collaboration • Collaboration helps sustain the lifesaving focus, regardless of who's in charge • Collaboration enhances public confidence, trust, and support
The Importance ofa Common Language • What's going on in the community • Makes the goal clear
The Importance ofa Common Language • Promotes effective, targeted programs • Creates a yardstick for measuring progress
Asilomar Accords: Goals • Save all healthy & treatable shelter pets • Set aside differences and find common ground • Promote community coalitions • Foster mutual respect • Common, uniform language and terminology • Standard definitions • Transparency
Asilomar Accords: Results • More peer pressure to report • A more civil environment • More collaboration • Many other groups promote reporting (Petpoint, ASPCA)
The Importance ofPublicly Reporting • Town councils, shires, mayors, city and state officials • Shelter executives and managers • Investigative reporters • Local citizens, animal lovers, donors, volunteers
Maddie’sComparative Database • Search and compare • Community statistics • Year-to-Year comparison • Community comparison • Shelter comparison
Maddie’sComparative Database • Search categories • Geographic region • Median income • Size of human population • Total intake • Total adoptions • Total euthanasia • Live release rate • Deaths per 1000