Animal Advocates Searching for Foster Coordinators

Manatee County animal advocacy groups are searching for up to four foster coordinator volunteers who can promote the programs' mission through social media, speaking engagements, letters to the editor, as well as matching potential foster families with animals. The volunteer positions are key in helping Manatee become a no-kill community. 

Foster coordinators will help match available pets at Manatee County Animal Services with available spaces at Manatee County’s rescue groups. The coordinator will also help match potential foster families with pets who need a temporary home until they can be placed in permanent homes.

The volunteers will also help promote adoptions and fostering opportunities throughout the community by speaking at public meetings and making appearances at civic groups, writing letters to the editor and through social media outlets.

Jean Peelen, a local pet lover and Animal Services Advisory Board member, is leading the search for the foster coordinators and is encouraging interested people to contact her.

“These volunteer positions will provide some animal advocates with an important opportunity to do some much-needed work in a field they love,” Peelen said. “I’d think some energetic people could come in and have fun shaping these positions and making them dynamic roles in the overall challenge of becoming ‘no-kill.’”

For more information, contact Jean Peelen at (941) 896-5827 or e-mail her at JeanPeelen@aol.com