Talbot Humane exists to protect animals from cruelty and neglect, find homes or placement for all treatable and adoptable animals, support the community through programs and services to reduce the number of animals entering animal shelters in our communities.

Our goal as an organization to create a more humane community with pet owners and neighbors who respect all living creatures, provide loving homes to pets and understand the importance of animals in our lives.

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Goal One: Provide a safe and healthy environment for the animals in our care with the most up to date and best practices in the field.

Goal Type: Focus on core programs to achieve mission and scale back on programs not seen as core.

Goal Two: Attract, train and retain the quantity and quality of staff, board and volunteers that will enable Talbot Humane to maintain our desired standard or excellence

Goal Type: Invest in the capacity of our organization (financial, management, technical, etc.).

Goal Three: Move forward in executing capital campaign and building of a new state of the art facility to provide for our programs, services, and goals for shelter and community animals and owners.

Goal Type: This goal reflects our commitment to further our advocacy work for our organization and or cause area.

Describe an investment in leadership

Talbot Humane invests in all staff training. When we speak of leadership be believe every team member is a potential leader for co-workers, volunteers and community through their actions. We have invested in trainings and certificate programs for upper and middle management. We have offered continuing education to every staff member, full and part time annually. We encourage attendance at conferences and meetings, local, state and national levels and offer paid continuing education. Our board has committed to annual retreats to refocus on the needs of the organization and encourages board members to continue their education in the field of animal welfare and leadership as board of directors members. We support our volunteer force through continuing education offerings in the community.

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?

Talbot Humane is looked at as leader in our field in our community. Our executive director sits on 2 state level boards and is the president of Professional Animal Workers of Maryland, the state federation of animal control agencies and humane societies. We have grassroots outreach and advocacy in each town in our county and beyond our borders as well. We are members of local, state and national level organizations for nonprofits and field specific organizations. We work with other non-profits across the board in our community to advocate for the greater good of our community, state and nation.

The last 2 years has been challenging for most non-profits, and Talbot Humane is no different. In 2021 we witnessed changes in our community from housing issues, lack or resources for pet owners and employment struggles. One of the important parts of our mission is to keep animals with their loving owners. Over the past year we committed to increasing resources for our intervention and retention program. By doing so we have been able to help more pet owners in the community who are experiencing financial challenges keep their pets. This has been done by offering assistance with pet food, veterinary care, pet supplies and behavioral consultation. This program while helping pet owners has positively affected our operations at Talbot Humane as well. We have seen a 10% decrease in owner surrendered animals. This is also helping our organization reach another part of our mission- placing every treatable and adoptable pet into homes.