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Crafting Successful Charity Eligibility Guidelines for Your Corporate Matching Program

February 6, 2024

Corporate matching programs are powerful tools for amplifying the impact of employee charitable donations. They allow employees to contribute to nonprofit organizations of their choice,…

How to Administer an Employee Assistance Fund (EAF)

January 3, 2024

64% of employees cite money issues as a significant source of stress, according to the American Psychological Association. Often times that stress can be a result…

The Business Case for Employee Volunteer & Skills Giving Programs

September 2, 2023

What if I told you that having an employee volunteer program could potentially save you money – say $1,000 to $6,000 per employee. Would you…

Congratulations to Our Members Recognized Among America’s Favorite Charities

October 15, 2025

Each year, The Chronicle of Philanthropy releases its list of America’s Favorite Charities—the 100 nonprofits that raise the most from individual donors, foundations, and corporate…

Hurricane Katrina put animal-related disaster response in the spotlight—and set its future course

August 27, 2025

Photo by: Carol Guzy

Animal Rescue Team and Disaster Response

September 30, 2024

The Humane Society of the United States (HSUS) Animal Rescue Team (ART) is on call 24/7, ready to deploy whenever animals are caught in large-scale…

More Than a Pet campaign will help people struggling to access care for their pets

May 11, 2023

People have tremendous love for their four-legged family members, and that human-animal bond transcends race, ethnicity, geography and socioeconomic status. Yet millions of pet owners…

Coming Together for Dogfighting Survivors

December 16, 2022

An unknown number of dogs were chained in the woods on a recent Sunday morning, and rescuers could hear them barking before they saw them.…

Support the Humane Society of the United States to Protect Animals Worldwide

October 4, 2022

Support the Humane Society of the United States through your employee giving program. Together with millions of supporters, we take on puppy mills, factory farms, the fur trade,…

Historic transport of approximately 4,000 beagles spared from animal testing

September 6, 2022

Update: On July 21, 2022, the HSUS Animal Rescue Team started removing the nearly 4,000 beagles from the mass breeding facility and transporting them to…

Animal Rescue Continues in Kentucky

December 16, 2021

The Humane Society of the United States (The HSUS) Animal Rescue and Response team is currently on the ground in Mayfield, Kentucky to search for and…

Support the Humane Society of the United States to Protect Animals Worldwide

October 4, 2021

Support the Humane Society of the United States through your employee giving program: As a donor, you can support the Humane Society of the United States by donating to…

#BeCrueltyFree

April 27, 2021

Cruelty-free beauty is on its way to becoming mainstream globally, driven in large part by the #BeCrueltyFree campaign led by Humane Society International, the Humane…

How Businesses and Employees Can Stand up Together and Stop the Horrific Treatment of Dogs at Puppy Mills

April 12, 2021

Not all pet stores are bad. More than 3,000 pet stores have partnered through The Humane Society of the United States’ Puppy Friendly Pet Stores…

170 dog meat trade survivors touch down in the United States; new poll shows a growing majority of South Koreans reject dog meat

October 28, 2020

It’s a long way from dog meat farmer Il-Hwan Kim’s operation in South Korea to Washington, DC. Yet that’s the amazing journey being taken by…