Best Friends Town Halls
The Best Friends Town Hall series brings together thought leaders from Best Friends and across the industry to provide insight, analysis, and solutions to the unprecedented challenges to lifesaving that we’re all facing right now.
The topic of each town hall reflects the most earnest conversations happening that week in animal welfare. We treat the event as an interactive forum where live questions from attendees are answered with a crowd-sourced solution that benefits all.
Check out our past town halls and associated resources
Using transparency to empower and support your community, from March 24, 2022
Expanding your walls: Maximize lifesaving with a community-based foster program, from February 24, 2022
The kittens are coming! Preparing your foster program ahead of kitten season, from February 10, 2022
Community-Supported Sheltering: Aligning all stakeholders in the welfare of animals in your community, from January 27, 2022
2021 Town Halls
The Road Map to Creating a No-Kill Country in 2025 Conference Session from December 30, 2021
Social Media 101 The Basics and Beyond Conference Session from December 23, 2021
The Unintended Consequences of Pulling Friendly Community Cats Conference Session from December 16, 2021
Reducing Length of Stay at Your Shelter Conference Session from December 9, 2021
Innovative Ways to Work with At-Risk Dogs from December 2, 2021
Successfully Marketing and Adopting Hard-to-Place Pets from November 18, 2021
People, Pets, and Policies from November 9, 2021
Elevate Lifesaving Work with Technology from April 8, 2021
Let's Get Them Home from January 14 & March 18, 2021
Activating Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in Animal Welfare from February 11 & 18, 2021
Out With the Old, In With the New: Switching Gears to Managed Intake from January 28, 2021
2020 Town Halls
2020: When Plans Change from December 17, 2020
The Human Connection: save more lives by building stronger relationships in communities from November 12, 2020
Cats Outside, It's Going to be OK from October 29, 2020
Rock Solid Fundraising: Strengthening Your Financial Foothold from October 15, 2020
Keeping Families Together: Navigating the Blurry Lines Between Neglect, Cruelty and Lack of Access to Care from October 1, 2020
Moving Beyond Bias with CARE 2.0 from September 10, 2020
Times They Are a Changin' Series Three-part series from August 13, 20 and 27, 2020
COVID-19: Preparing for the Housing Crisis from July 30, 2020
Leveling the Playing Field: How to Remove Barriers for Underrepresented Communities and Their Pets from July 9, 2020
Best Friends 2019 National Data Set Review from June 25, 2020
The Collective Impact of Community Centered Lifesaving from June 18, 2020
Moving Beyond Bias with CARE from June 11, 2020
Transport During a Pandemic from June 4, 2020
Making the Case for a New Tomorrow from May 21, 2020
Emerging Lifesaving Technology Solutions from May 14, 2020
Re-Opening a Different & Better Tomorrow from May 7, 2020
Staff and Volunteer Morale from April 30, 2020
Impact Across the Country from April 23, 2020
Impact to Animal Care & Control from April 16, 2020
Neighbor-to-Neighbor from April 9, 2020
Lifesaving Safely from April 2, 2020
Shelter Operations Town Hall from March 26, 2020
COVID-19: Fundraising During a Crisis webinar from March 23, 2020