We are not sure that this is a responsible use of resources in a time of crisis. While all of this sounds very nice on paper, the mind-boggling time and effort involved in developing volunteer guidelines suggests to us that an enormous amount of time and money will be spent developing these educational materials that could best be spent elsewhere.
"New Yorkers will learn that the animals at AC&C shelters are clean and well cared for by professional staff. AC&C will furthermore offer a variety of ways for animal lovers over 18 to connect with the healthy cats, dogs, and other animals in its care through a volunteer program." Given that the first part of that statement is utterly untrue and the second is wishful thinking - the volunteer program has been "open" for a month and has yet to graduate a single volunteer to "connect" with any animal - we would have to call the Public Education Fund by another name: the Image-Polishing PR Bullshit Fund.
Stop wasting our money on this crap. You will surely find less of a need for "education" when you lead by example.
When Nevada Humane Society went No Kill in 2006-7, they actually ELIMINATED several traditional humane education programs so that they could focus their efforts and resources on saving the maximum number of lives (their highest priority) - and those programs weren't just apple-polishing, self-congratulating PR. They went from LECTURING their community to INVOLVING their community.
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