Uploaded January 2025 | Updated September 2026, 7 hours ago
How is your year going so far? What's going on in your heart? Attendees share their concerns, their stress levels and the barriers they are currently facing.
Co-host José Ocaño, CEO & Founder, Hatching LLC hatching.me/, polls us on our feelings and how our teams are doing. Co-host Donell Randolph, Volunteer Coordinator, Oakland Animal Services, shares what's going on in his world. Tia Ma, a life coach at shamantaima.com/, guides us in a meditative Heart Coherence exercise. Jacqueline Hernandez, Solidaridad Latinoamericana para la Protección Animals y el Rescate (S.O.L.A.R), shares a gut-wrenching incident and how her team is coping with it.
To access the full agenda and resources from this call or to ask questions of our speakers, visit https://maddies.fund/communityconversations12725
About Community Conversations, hosted by Maddie’s Fund: When the COVID-19 pandemic hit in early 2020, animal sheltering transformed overnight. Foster-based sheltering, home-based employees and volunteers, along with collaboration galvanized our communities. The pandemic, along with social injustice, has motivated our industry to look at how we partner with our communities and confront our own biases. Shelter and rescue staff across the country began talking on a weekly basis, offering support and innovative ideas to do things differently. To learn more about these calls, visit forum.maddiesfund.org/communityconversations
How is your year going so far? What's going on in your heart? Attendees share their concerns, their stress levels and the barriers they are currently facing.
Co-host José Ocaño, CEO & Founder, Hatching LLC hatching.me/, polls us on our feelings and how our teams are doing. Co-host Donell Randolph, Volunteer Coordinator, Oakland Animal Services, shares what's going on in his world. Tia Ma, a life coach at shamantaima.com/, guides us in a meditative Heart Coherence exercise. Jacqueline Hernandez, Solidaridad Latinoamericana para la Protección Animals y el Rescate (S.O.L.A.R), shares a gut-wrenching incident and how her team is coping with it.
To access the full agenda and resources from this call or to ask questions of our speakers, visit https://maddies.fund/communityconversations12725
About Community Conversations, hosted by Maddie’s Fund: When the COVID-19 pandemic hit in early 2020, animal sheltering transformed overnight. Foster-based sheltering, home-based employees and volunteers, along with collaboration galvanized our communities. The pandemic, along with social injustice, has motivated our industry to look at how we partner with our communities and confront our own biases. Shelter and rescue staff across the country began talking on a weekly basis, offering support and innovative ideas to do things differently. To learn more about these calls, visit forum.maddiesfund.org/communityconversations
