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Step 1
Help with community outreach. Many local shelters partner with local businesses, organizations, or community events to set up tables in various locations throughout the community to help promote the animal shelter. You’ll give out literature, answer questions, and take donations.
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Step 2
Participate in fundraisers. All year long, particularly during the holidays, animal shelters collect money during fundraisers. Sign up to wrap gifts during the Christmas holiday or attend a dinner with great food, drinks and door prizes, design to give a portion of the proceeds to the animal shelter.
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Step 3
Be a part of event planning. Find locations to host events, create registrations forms and other literature necessary to provide at the event, and plan the menu if applicable.
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Step 4
Spread the word about the animal shelter. You don’t have to have a degree in marketing or advertising to get the word out about your non-profit. If you have decent writing skills, write up a press release from your home office and email it or fax it to a local newspaper. Add classified ads about each animal to various websites with classifieds and as many newspapers as time will allow. If local stores will allow it, hang flyers promoting the shelter in their window and add an email signature to every email that you send out that includes information on the animal shelter. Work with someone at the shelter who can provide you with photos of various animals.
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Step 5
Lend your green thumb. You may have never even thought about it, but the animal shelter needs green thumbs to help keep their property well manicured to prevent them from having to spend money on hiring a landscaper. Consider mowing the lawn, planting flowers, pulling weeds and adding lawn ornaments. Talk with the shelter’s management first to see what their needs are.
