Episode 34 - Pet-Friendly Housing with Todd Cramer and Heather Schechter
People Are Animals Too, Darnit!
Release Date: 08/21/2020
E55 - Foster Studies with Dr. Lisa Gunter and Emily Blade
People Are Animals Too, Darnit!
Emily Blade is the Travel and Implementation Coordinator for the ASU/VT Maddie's Fund Nationwide Fostering Study. In this role, she consults with animal shelter staff on program development and implementation, with a focus on identifying barriers to success, trialing solutions, and streamlining processes. Emily has been working in and with shelters for nearly ten years and draws on lessons learned from shelter operations, management, veterinary care and community-directed programs to assist shelters in designing progressive programs; most recently, Safety Net Fostering programs to...
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Episode 54 - Disaster Relief in Animal Welfare with Diane Robinson
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Diane Robinson of the HSUS joins Mandy to discuss disaster response and relief as it relates to animal welfare. Contact Diane: [email protected]
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Episode 52 - Compassion Fatigue with Jen Blough
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Jennifer Blough (rhymes with plow) is a licensed professional counselor who is certified in compassion fatigue, pet loss grief, and trauma. She is the owner of Deepwater Counseling and The Compassion Fatigue Couch. Jennifer is also the author of . As a vegan and former shelter worker and animal control officer, Jen has an extensive background in animal welfare and animal rights, and is passionate about helping those who love, care for, and work to protect animals. Contact info: [email protected]
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Episode 53 - Homelessness and Animal Welfare with Dr. Jon Geller
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Dr. Geller is a graduate of Colorado State College of Veterinary Medicine. After graduating in 1995, he became an emergency veterinarian in Colorado for 20 years, and started up 4 emergency clinics. He became Board Certified as Veterinary Practitioner in Canine and Feline Medicine in 2010. In 2015 he founded The Street Dog Coalition, a non-profit charity, which currently has teams in around 50 US cities across the US providing free medical care to pets of the homeless. Currently he is working on setting up a One Health Mobile Outreach program to provide free veterinary and health care...
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Episode 51 - Community Cat Programs with Brittany Sundell
People Are Animals Too, Darnit!
Brittany is a New England native who has spent the last 12 years getting involved in the shelter/rescue community all throughout New England, the Midwest and now Pacific Northwest. Starting out her career in higher education, Brittany takes her experience in Social Sciences and her Masters of Organizational Leadership to implement sound research practices into the program development for under-resourced shelters and rescues. Brittany serves West Valley Humane Society as the Development and Education Coordinator. Her role encompasses development of shelter programs, research, community...
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Episode 50 - Outside-The-Box Solutions Can Bring Positive Change with Spencer Conover
People Are Animals Too, Darnit!
From Spencer: "I have dedicated my life to positive, servant leadership at some of the top animal welfare organizations across the country including, the Dumb Friends League, Best Friends Animal Society, the Humane Society of Utah and Pasco County Animal Services. I am proud to lead a team of people, dedicated to creating, nurturing and preserving the human-animal bond for the people and pets in our community. I am a graduate of the Best Friends Animal Society Executive Leadership Certification Program, the Pasco County Leadership Development Program and the Strategic Government Solutions...
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Episode 49 - Extremism in Animal Welfare
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Mandy discusses the problems with extremism in animal welfare and offers a better approach.
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Episode 48 - The Ins and Outs of Shelter / Funder Relations Part II
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Jessica Martin has dedicated nearly three decades to helping children, families, and animals in need. She has become exceptionally skilled in organizational planning, philanthropic strategy and system development, nonprofit policy, technical writing, grants management, and major gifts programs. For many years, Jessica served as the Director of Foundation Giving and Major Gifts at one of the nation’s largest children’s hospitals. With her leadership, the department achieved a historical $118 million in philanthropic revenue with nearly $36 million in new grants. Her...
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Episode 47 - The Ins and Outs of Shelter/Funder Relations with Jessica Martin, Part I
People Are Animals Too, Darnit!
Jessica Martin has dedicated nearly three decades to helping children, families, and animals in need. She has become exceptionally skilled in organizational planning, philanthropic strategy and system development, nonprofit policy, technical writing, grants management, and major gifts programs. For many years, Jessica served as the Director of Foundation Giving and Major Gifts at one of the nation’s largest children’s hospitals. With her leadership, the department achieved a historical $118 million in philanthropic revenue with nearly $36 million in new grants. Her...
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Episode 46 - Rebranding: Better Together Animal Alliance
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People Are Animals Too Darnit host, Mandy Evans, is the executive director of an animal shelter in north Idaho. The animal shelter just launched a rebrand campaign to Better Together Animal Alliance. Mandy talks with Lisa Gerber of Big Leap Creative about the rebranding effort and the purpose of it. bettertogetheranimalalliance.org
info_outlineTodd Cramer is the former President & CEO at the Mohawk Hudson Humane Society (MHHS) in New York’s Capital District. Prior to joining MHHS, he was the Senior Vice President of Community Engagement & Chief of Staff at St. Hubert’s Animal Welfare Center in New Jersey. Todd has also served as the Senior Program Manager, Adoptions at PetSmart Charities and Director of Community Initiatives at the ASPCA. During his time at St. Hubert's Animal Welfare Center, Todd led the Pets Are Welcome, pet friendly housing initiative, pilot program working to encourage rental property owners to go beyond just allowing pet residents and make them truly welcome by eliminating breed, type and size restrictions and providing the tools necessary for pet guardians and their pets to live successfully in rental communities. Under his leadership, the Mohawk Hudson Humane Society successfully partnered with the Sunrise Management & Consultants to create Pets Are Welcome communities. Todd has written for Animal Sheltering Magazine and has been a popular speaker delivering workshops on animal welfare topics at regional and national conferences including Best Friend’s National Conference and the Humane Society of the United States Animal Care Expo.
Heather Schechter, Director of Marketing and Business Development, is responsible for identifying and developing new business opportunities and building and expanding the public presence of the company and its clients. She oversees the marketing of multiple apartment communities, including branding, advertising, public relations, and communications functions. Heather brings to Sunrise her experience in marketing in Albany and New York City. She is currently the Past President and Membership Chair of the Capital Region Public Relations Society of America. Heather is Accredited in Public Relations and a licensed New York State Real Estate Salesperson. She holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in History from Columbia College and a Master of Science degree in Education from the Sage Colleges.