A Network Approach to a "No Kill" Nation | Stanford Social Innovation Review - 0 views
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To accomplish this, we embraced the network principle of “node not hub,” deciding early on not to invest in top-down remedies, but in collaborative models that would remain in tact after our initial financial support ended, usually after a period of 5-7 years.
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equired that local communities develop a data-gathering system.
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consensus data model that large segments of our industry could embrace and use to standardize terminology and reporting across all shelters. We invested in building data-gathering systems for the shelter field and saw those early efforts blossom into genuine cultural change.
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beautiful success story of how no-kill animal shelters got a big boost with networking approaches, uniform data collection, and creation of new medical specialty--shelter veterinary medicine.