The PIHI report found that the vast majority of rental property owners and operators face restrictions on pets. Representatives Adam Schiff (D-CA), Brian Fitzpatrick (R-PA), Lauren Underwood (D-IL), and Cori Bush (D-MO) cited Michelson Found Animals...
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Better Neighbor Project Provides Pet Food and Services to Hundreds of Watts Residents
The Pet Wellness Day event provided much needed food and wellness services to help families, and their pets in the community stay together. Watts Locals Provided A Free Pet Wellness Day Michelson Found Animals Foundation’s (MFA) Better Neighbor Project (BNP) hosted a...
Public Housing Should Remove All Pet Restrictions
Dr. Gary Michelson discussed Michelson Found Animals Foundation’s work on pet-inclusive housing policies and animal welfare during Pet Week on Capitol Hill. By Justin Chapman Dr. Gary Michelson and Steve Feldman Join Pet Week on Capitol HIll Despite vague...
Judy Bellack Highlights the Pet-Inclusive Housing Initiative
Jerry Sullivan, former LA Business Journal editor who now runs his own media outlet called SullivanSays SoCal, interviews Michelson Found Animals Foundation's multifamily housing industry consultant Judy Bellack to highlight the Pet-Inclusive Housing Initiative...
Pet Care Industry & Entrepreneurship with Brett Yates
Jerry Sullivan, former LA Business Journal editor who now runs his own media outlet called SullivanSays SoCal, interviews Michelson Found Animals Foundation CEO Brett Yates for an episode of the “Making an Impact with Michelson Philanthropies” podcast series to...
Bipartisan Congressional Leaders Introduce FDA Modernization Act to Curb Use of Animals in Medical Testing
The FDA Modernization Act will eliminate a Depression-era requirement for animal testing for all new drug development protocols. Today, Animal Wellness Action, the Center for a Humane Economy, the Michelson Center for Public Policy, People for the Ethical Treatment of...
All-Staff Meeting Highlights Medical Research and Impact Investing
Dr. Wayne Koff, founder and CEO of the Human Immunome Project, discusses the origin of the Michelson Prizes, and Phillip Kim, CEO of Michelson 20MM Foundation, provides an update on the organization’s recent impact venture investments that aim to make the world a...
Michelson Found Animals Kicks Off the 2021 Saving Pets Challenge
The Saving Pets Challenge helps animal welfare organizations raise money for the chance to win grants and prizes to support life-saving programs for pets in their communities. As part of its commitment to keeping pets in safe and loving homes, the animal...
‘Generosity Breeds Joy’: No Place Like Home Challenge Reunited More Than 10,000 Pets With Their Families
Animal shelters and other organizations completed 10,366 reunions of pets with their families through the No Place Like Home Challenge. Reuniting Pets in 2021 with the No Place Like Home Challenge The partnership between the Michelson Found Animals Foundation...
Adopting Pet-Inclusive Policies
The vast majority of pet-owners agree that pets are important members of the family, but progress is still needed when it comes to extending that sentiment to pet-inclusive policies for rental housing. By Justin Chapman Rental Housing Owners Can Attract...
The Better Neighbor Project Celebrated 1 Year of Pet Pantry and Wellness Day Events
We're an animal welfare non-profit with a focused mission: Saving pets, enriching lives. Pets give us endless love, compassion, and cuddles. They make homes happier, people healthier, and bring communities closer together. Our end of the bargain is to provide them...
How Nonsurgical Sterilants will Eliminate Animal Shelter Euthanasia
Dr. Gary Michelson has pledged a $25 million prize to the first entity that develops a single-dose nonsurgical sterilant for dogs and cats. In 2019, 5.3 million companion animals entered U.S. shelters. Of that number, hundreds of thousands of healthy and...