11/04/2026
National Animal Shelter & Rescue Appreciation Week:
Meet Our Administrative Team!
Often working behind the scenes, our Administrative Team plays a HUGE role in keeping Friendship APL running! And when you're a smaller nonprofit organization, wearing just one hat is rarely an option. Our admin team members wear many, often taking on responsibilities that reach far beyond what you might traditionally expect from an administrative role.
From building and maintaining relationships with community partners and supporters, writing grants to secure critical funding, coordinating fundraising campaigns, and planning events, to managing the countless day-to-day details that keep our organization moving forward, their work touches nearly every aspect of our mission.
They help bring in the resources that allow us to provide medical care, food, shelter, and second chances to thousands of animals each year. They work to build the connections that make our programs possible, organize the fundraisers that help keep our doors open, and find creative ways to ensure we have the support needed to continue saving lives.
And while much of their work happens behind a computer screen, in meetings, on the phone, or behind the scenes at events, the impact is felt throughout the entire shelter.
The difficult part? So much of their work happens behind the scenes that it can be easy to overlook just how much goes into keeping a nonprofit organization functioning. There are deadlines, funding challenges, event logistics, competing priorities, and the constant responsibility of finding ways to do more with limited resources. Much of their work is also tied to things that aren't always immediately visible, but are absolutely essential to our ability to care for animals.
To our Administrative Team: Thank you for being the people who help keep all the pieces together. Your creativity, dedication, flexibility, and hard work make so much of what we do possible. The animals may not know everything you do for them, but we certainly do!
