Potential for Collaborative TNR Programs—Matching Needs and Resources Worksheet

Example 1:

Your organization is a TNR group thinking of collaborating with a low-cost S/N clinic

Spay-neuter Surgeries

Facilities (space for recoveries)

Personnel (trappers and/or caregivers)

Transportation (to and from surgery)

Equipment (traps, etc.)

Food (ongoing care)

Expertise (TNR instruction)

Funding (private grants or public)

Education- Community Outreach

Other

YOUR ORGANIZATION

Need Need Resource Resource Resource Need Resource Need Resource

Gov. Animal Control Agency

Shelter/Humane Society (in-house clinic)

Low-cost Spay-neuter Clinic

Resource Resource Need Need Resource Need Resource Resource Resource

Local TNR-Rescue Group

EXAMPLE 2:

Your organization is a shelter thinking of collaborating with an animal control agency

Spay-neuter Surgeries

Facilities (space for recoveries)

Personnel (trappers and/or caregivers)

Transportation (to and from surgery)

Equipment (traps, etc.)

Food (ongoing care)

Expertise (TNR instruction)

Funding (private grants or public)

Education- Community Outreach

Other

YOUR ORGANIZATION

Resource Resource Need Need Resource Need Resource Need Resource

Gov. Animal Control Agency

Need Need Need Resource Need Need Need Resource Need

Shelter/Humane Society (in-house clinic)

Low-cost Spay-neuter Clinic

Local TNR-Rescue Group

Legend Red block=organizational need; Blue block=organizational resource; Yellow columns=potential area for collaboration based upon match of needs and resources. Factors identified as needs and resources will vary by organization. Some factors may be neither needs nor resources for certain organizations. Some needs may require more than one collaborative partner to fill, or may be unresolvable through collaboration alone. Together Initiative, 2016-All Rights Reserved