Michigan Humane Society

1. Create partnerships with other animal welfare organizations, private corporations, and public institutions to build sustainable, systemic approaches to drive the largest impact to amplify our collective mission.

2. To adopt or find alternate placement for all healthy, treatable, and behaviourally safe animals entrusted to us.

3. Create a system of support programs to keep families and their pets together.

4. To provide first-class, high-quality veterinary services to families in our region.

5. Reactively and proactively respond to acts of animal cruelty and neglect through response, education, and prosecution.

6. Provide high quality, low/no-cost veterinary services to families struggling with access to care.

1. Continue to shift our development practices to cultivate partnerships with non-traditional organizations that are investing in stabilizing neighborhoods and ensuring families are healthy and safe.

2. Increase intrastate and interstate transports of healthy, adoptable animals from other organizations where overcrowding or resources put them at risk of unnecessary euthanasia.

3. The high cost of pet ownership is the main reason families need to surrender their animals to shelters in our region. Michigan Humane has established a very robust pet food pantry to feed thousands of animals in their homes. We are also shifting our food strategy from a single, placed based model to a variety of methodologies to improve access to food. This is part of a larger focus on supporting the family unit.

4. Michigan Humane must recruit and retain the highest talent of veterinarians and veterinary support staff to provide the complex care needed to support the animals in our shelters and to keep our community’s animals healthy.

5. Access to affordable vet care is the number one problem facing the industry nationally. Michigan Humane has identified partners to fund low/no-cost care to those in need through Michigan Humane. Without this program, families would have to surrender their pets and add to the overcrowding of shelters.

1. As the largest animal welfare organization in Michigan, Michigan Humane has recruited top talent from around the country in the areas of executive leadership, finance, operations, medicine, and development resulting in many successes in programs, partnerships, and finance.

2. Michigan Humane Board of Directors is comprised of passionate supporters who come from a variety of fields and bring both financial and relational strengths.

3. Michigan Humane has a diverse group of donors and volunteers who consistently support the vision and operations.

4. Michigan Humane applies industry-leading practices in state-of-the-art facilities.

Michigan Humane has been extremely successful in reaching the most important goals around live release rates, adoptions, veterinary and behavior care, development and financial and accounting practices. Coming out of our most recent Strategic Roadmap process, Michigan Humane is being positioned to take a more active leadership role on statewide efforts to support other animal welfare organizations lacking capacity. Additionally, building new partnerships with health and human service organizations to provide comprehensive care to families with pets and human needs is a key priority over the next two years. Finally, implementing a strategic fund development plan to establish sustainable support is on the near horizon. Michigan Humane is positioned to have an incredible impact on the overall quality of life for people and pets in Southeast Michigan and beyond.