1. Building Collaborative Effort & The Importance of Reporting

2. Collaboration maximizes resources Collaboration keeps the focus on lifesaving, not infighting The Importance of Collaboration

3. Collaboration helps sustain the lifesaving focus, regardless of who's in charge Collaboration enhances public confidence, trust, and support The Importance of Collaboration

4. What's going on in the community Makes the goal clear The Importance of a Common Language

5. Promotes effective, targeted programs Creates a yardstick for measuring progress The Importance of a Common Language

6. 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

7. Asilomar Accords: Results More peer pressure to report A more civil environment More collaboration Many other groups promote reporting (Petpoint, ASPCA)

8. Asilomar Accords Table

9. The Importance of Publicly Reporting Town councils, shires, mayors, city and state officials Shelter executives and managers Investigative reporters Local citizens, animal lovers, donors, volunteers

10. Search and compare –Community statistics –Year-to-Year comparison –Community comparison –Shelter comparison Maddie’s Comparative Database

11. Search categories –Geographic region –Median income –Size of human population –Total intake –Total adoptions –Total euthanasia –Live release rate –Deaths per 1000 Maddie’s Comparative Database

12. Getting to no-kill is not only possible: it’s probable