Greater Good Charities is devoted to protecting people, pets, and the planet by mobilizing in response to need and amplifying the good.

We Amplify The Good.

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Goal One: Greater Good Charities is focused on a "communities" approach where we pursue opportunities to leverage multiple programmatic efforts across our people, pets, and planet verticals to maximize impact.

Goal Type: Grow, expand, scale or increase access to the existing programs and services.

Goal Two: Greater Good Charities is offering new programs based on observed need, including Good Fix (targeted Spay/Neuter), Good Flights (pet transport), and Good Home (targeted pet foster recruitment).

Goal Type: New program(s) based on observed changes in needs among our constituencies/communities served.

Goal Three: Greater Good Charities is expanding the constituencies served by our Rescue Bank program beyond small rescue groups to include domestic violence victims, veterans, homeless, and food insecure people.

Goal Type: Grow, expand, scale or increase access to the existing programs and services.

Describe an investment in leadership

We invest in conferences, trainings, and technology to improve the effectiveness and capabilities of leaders within our organization.

This organization mobilizes for mission in the following ways:

• Strategic Partnerships

• Networks of Collective Impact Efforts

• Thought Leadership

• Raising Awareness

• Community Building

What are this organization’s external mobilizaton efforts?

Greater Good Charities partners with many organizations, public and private, in service of our mission. This includes foundations, corporate sponsors, other nonprofits, and operational partners. We also regularly present at conferences, including marketing and animal welfare conferences. We train organizations we support with programs like Girls' Voices, Cat Pawsitive, Good Home, and Rescue Rebuild. We participate in coalitions aimed at achieving shared goals. We have a dedicated marketing team that works to raise awareness and communicate our mission and impact through multiple digital and traditional channels.

At the beginning of the pandemic, we heard from many animal shelters in our network of 9,000+ shelters and rescues that they urgently needed fosters as they were forced to reduce staff and change normal operations. We launched the national campaign #StayHomeAndFoster which generated over 92,000 foster volunteer registrations for over 1,400 animal shelters in a matter of months. Our Girls' Voices program traditionally was implemented by educational facilitators in classrooms in several countries, and COVID-19 caused our partners schools to close. Most students had no access to internet other than through a cell phone. We moved entirely online to accommodate--hosting the curriculum on a learning management system. We provided emergency grants to wildlife sanctuaries caring for endangered species to keep them afloat as tourism impacted their businesses. We modified our shelter training programs such as Cat Pawsitive to be fully online, reduced reporting requirements, and created versions that could be used by the general public. Our Rescue Rebuild program begin doing remote consultations with shelters as their normal operations were reduced. This has been maintained even as normal operations have resumed. We established new disaster distribution hubs for our in-kind donations, delivering over $25 million in product to support pet shelters and human service organizations. We launched an historic pet transport of over 600 pets from the Hawaiian islands to the Pacific NW with Paws Across the Pacific, which grew later into Good Flights and now helps transport vulnerable pet populations including asymptomatic heartworm-positive pets, cats, large breed dogs, medical needs pets, disaster victims, and more. We provided meals to first responders and hospital staff from local restaurants to keep them in business, and launched Feed Thy Neighbor, a campaign with Chris Pratt that funded 5 million meals for food insecure families across the country.