“There’s a lot of tools that we offer to make really understanding the data easier and start to identify where the need still exists.”

This episode is sponsored in part by Cats of the Wild Podcast, Doobert.com, and Maddie's Fund.

In this episode, Stacy chats with Stephanie Flier, Executive Director of Shelter Animals Count, an organization that maintains a centralized, standardized database for animal shelter statistics. The organization's database, established in 2012, tracks shelter intakes and outcomes, and in 2021, they started collecting community services data.

In her conversation with Stacy, Stephanie describes how Shelter Animals Count collects its data from the nearly 7,000 participating organizations across the country and then transforms it into interactive data dashboards. Stephanie provides some tips on how to navigate this data and highlights some of its features. She also discusses recent shelter trends, post-pandemic challenges, and more.

To learn more about Shelter Animals Count, visit their website.