Winter 2020

A New Year, New Opportunities

2020 was a difficult year to say the least, but we hope that the new year brings an opportunity for new beginnings. This is a great time to start or expand your humane education program. With so much division, despair, and cruelty in our world right now, humane education provides an essential avenue for fostering unity, optimism, and compassion during 2021 and into the future. To support you in this process, we developed the 8 Steps for Starting or Revamping Your Humane Education Program guide. These steps will serve as a road map to creating a unique humane education program that is right for you, your organization, and your community.

8 Steps for Starting or Revamping Your  Humane Education Program

Let's Start Networking!

We want to hear from you! Join the HEART Network Private Group hosted by Maddie's Pet Forum on the Maddie's Fund website. In our private group, you can share and access additional humane education resources, participate in ongoing conversations, collaborate with Network members, and more. We created this step-by-step instruction guide explaining how to join the HEART Network Private Group on the new Maddie's Fund website. (Follow these steps if you already have an online Maddie's Fund account or you still need to create one.) If you were previously part of our HEART Network private group, you should have received an email to activate your account on the new site. If you need assistance with activating your old account, please visit the Maddie's Fund "Contact Us" webpage for support. Please note that while Maddie’s Fund itself focuses on animal companion issues, the Pet Forum is open to all animal advocates and animal lovers, and our HEART Network group is inclusive of a wide range of animal protection issues facing all animal species.

Network Virtual Gathering: Recap

Thanks to everyone who attended our virtual gathering in December! It was great for Network members to get to know each other, share a little about themselves, and tell us about the ways they are promoting humane education. We want the HEART Network to be a community where we can support one another and learn together.

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Members Only: Access All HEART Network Lessons and Activities

Have you visited the Member Center yet? Check it out to access important Network information and benefits. The Member Center includes an archive of our past Network bulletins so that you can review them all in one place at any time. Our previous bulletins contain a vast range of humane education resources that you don't want to miss.

Share the Network!

 Help us spread the word about the Network. Let your friends and colleagues know that it is free to join, and that signing up takes less than five minutes on our Network registration page.