Overview
- The ASPCA and Best Friends announced a $14 million plan with Los Angeles Animal Services to improve city shelters, the largest combined municipal investment by the two groups.
- The funding creates 23 full-time jobs across the six shelters to raise the share of animals that leave alive through adoptions, fostering and reunions.
- Four advisors from the two nonprofits will work on site to speed matches to adopters and fosters and improve daily operations.
- Each organization will provide $7 million for a three-year pilot, and the department says it will seek money to keep effective roles after the grant.
- Los Angeles Animal Services runs six shelters that handle about 50,000 animals and more than 20,000 emergency calls each year, a workload that drew scrutiny after a 2024 report on poor conditions.