Happy New Year! We’re excited to announce January’s Community Conversations host, Miguel Ruelas. Miguel is the Community Resources Manager at Pasadena Humane, bringing over a decade of experience in animal welfare grounded in a human-centered, equity-driven, and community-focused approach. He hosted yesterday’s call,  Get Them Out, Even for a Little, and will host the remaining calls this month, as shown below:

• 1/12 Money Mindset for Animal Organizations
• 1/19: No call for Martin Luther King Jr. Day
• 1/26: The Business Behind Lifesaving

You can engage with Miguel on this thread, where several people have already asked questions about reserve funds and rescue burnout.

Register now for the weekly Monday 11AM PT/2PM ET call for animal well-being professionals. These 50-minute calls are a collaborative space to share exciting new programs and research, discuss uncomfortable topics, connect with peers in the industry and more, all while sharing a common goal of preserving the human-animal bond. There’s also $10,000 in grants given away each month to participants!