Moving To Adoption Guarantee

2. Why should you embrace adoption guarantee for your organization and your community?

Because it saves many more lives

Because it is the way of the future

Because it teaches the community the right message

Because it moves the goal post in the right direction

All of the above

3. By at least trying to embrace adoption guarantee for your organization, you will have started asking appropriate questions and started people thinking in the right direction to save more lives.

True

False

4. Which is a first step in getting your Board of Directors to buy into adoption guarantee?

Suddenly deciding to make a change without time for research

Choosing committee members who are reluctant to change

Setting a tone of willingness to examine and challenge old notions

All of the above

5. Once your Board has adopted a new plan for the future, first present the news to your staff, doners and volunteers before they hear it from elsewhere.

True

False

6. You are likely to be attacked anytime you seek to significantly change the status quo, resulting in anger and resisitance.

True

False

7. It is NOT appropriate to give resistant staff members a reasonable period of time to embrace the change.

True

False

8. Accountability is essential, but it must not be used to smother resourcefulness and creativity.

True

False

9. Your philosophy should be clear to you and your community and you must always be true to it.

True

False

10. If you plan to be an adoption guarantee shelter, a critical message includes which of the following:

Euthanizing animals is not an obligation of any private organization

The goal is to ultimately end the loss of life of healthy and treatable animals community-wide

The plan will not increase the burden on other agencies

All of the above

11. To move to an adoption guarantee organization, it will be important to partner with groups you can work with respectfully and sanely.

True

False