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Causes: Animal Protection & Welfare, Animal-Related, Animal Services, Animals

Mission: Alley cat allies' mission is to transform and develop communities to protect and improve the lives of cats. Our three main program areas are: humane care and outreach, law and policy, and advocacy.

Programs: Advocacy - the organization uses an innovative approach to mobilize grassroots, sponsor cutting-edge conferences, work directly with key decision makers such as elected officials, government agencies, veterinarians, corporations, shelter directors, governing boards, and nonprofit 501(c)(3) organizations to create positive, lifesaving change for cats, provide grants, and promote compassionate conservation.

humane care and outreach - the organization provides direct, hands-on cat and kitten care in atlantic city, nj, and many other cities, counties, and countries to further global mission impact. The organization also provides funding and resources to nonprofit 501(c)(3) to support trap-neuter-return (tnr), veterinary costs such as spay/neuter surgeries, vaccinations and microchips, or other related programs. The organization provides training, workshops, webinars, conferences, networking, and collaborations. The organization creates and supplies a large distribution of resources in multiple languages and produces humane education publications that fill a unique niche.

law & policy - the organization educates and mobilizes grassroots and works with key decision makers and communities on critical, lifesaving state and local policy issues such as tnr ordinances and shelter transparency. The organization works to end laws and policies that enable outdated catch & kill. The organization also provides resources to achieve justice in cat cruelty cases, abolish dangerous laws for cats, pass humane ordinances with progressive language that stop labels of invasive, non-native species, prevent mass extermination of cats, and protect cats and caregivers. The organization publishes animal shelter transformation blueprints for programs including cat adoptions, foster care, neonatal kitten care, trap-neuter-return, return to owner, and return to field.

shelter transformation - the organization's latest research suggests that one cat is killed in the u. S. Shelter system every 15 seconds. The organization is working to transform shelters by publishing and promoting 'blueprints' that serve as handbooks and toolkits; to adopt lifesaving programs and change systems, providing grants and resources, providing onsite webinars and workshops, and working with community leaders on collaboration and ordinance changes.
7920 Norfolk Ave Ste 600, Bethesda, MD 20814
240-482-1980
Animals
Bethesda
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