Pawster Nashville

Pawster's mission is to support people during times of crisis by providing compassionate, temporary care for their pets.

A world where the bonds between pets and people are never severed by temporary crisis.

Goal One: Increase fully onboarded fosters by 50% (~20 fosters) by the end of 2022, with half of those from underrepresented communities.

Goal Two: Raise $95,000 in 2022 with a special focus on major donors and monthly donors.

Goal Three: Recruit 2 board members from underrepresented communities by the end of 2022.

The Board of Directors is taking quarterly workshops in DEI and working with a paid DEI consultant. The Executive Director is completing a fundraising executive workshop through the Center for Nonprofit Management, as well as continued fundraising workshops through the Association for Animal Welfare Advancement.

Pawster partners with many nonprofit and government agencies in both animal welfare and human services in order to provide referrals for people and pets in crisis. Pawster is a part of many collective associations, including the Nashville Safe Coalition (animal welfare), Nashville VOAD, Human Animal Support Services, and more. Pawster is also present at many community events, such as markets and fairs, in order to spread awareness of the need for Crisis Foster Care, as well as daily social media marketing.

Pawster helps people and pets in crisis, and many of those people come to us because they are in a housing crisis and do not have somewhere for their pets to stay while they look for pet-friendly housing. Wildly inflated housing costs have led many of the pet owners we work with to have difficulty finding new housing over the last year. As a result, the Pawster board of directors decided to begin offering to pay pet deposits and emotional support animal letter fees for the owners of pets we are currently fostering. For many of these families, these additional costs for housing their pets are the last hurdle to finding safe, pet-friendly housing.