A Shared Calendar for Your Animal Shelter
Adoption events, volunteer shifts, spay/neuter clinics, fundraisers — synced to every supporter's phone. No app to download. No accounts to create.
Create Your Shelter Calendar — FreeSound familiar?
It's Saturday at 10 AM. You set up an adoption event at the pet store parking lot with ten dogs ready to meet families. Three families show up. You promoted it on Facebook all week, but the post reached maybe 15% of your followers. The dogs go back to the shelter.
A volunteer shows up Wednesday evening ready to walk dogs, but tonight is cat socialization night — the dog-walking schedule switched to Thursdays last month. The volunteer didn't get the memo because the schedule change was announced in a Facebook group post that got buried under 40 cute animal photos.
Your spay/neuter clinic is next Saturday. The vet tech calls to confirm and you realize nobody signed up to help because the sign-up sheet is on a clipboard at the front desk. Half your volunteers haven't been in all week. The ones who would sign up don't even know the clinic is happening.
How it works for animal shelters
Add your shelter events
Enter adoption events, volunteer shifts, clinic days, and fundraisers. Add the date, time, location, and any details. Takes 30 seconds.
Share with your supporters
Post the link on your website, include it in adoption packets, share it with volunteers. People tap once to subscribe.
Events appear on every phone
Shelter events show up in their calendar app — Apple Calendar, Google Calendar, Outlook — alongside their personal schedule.
More people at adoption events means more animals going home. Start your shelter calendar for free.
Get Started FreePerfect for every shelter event
Here's what animal shelters typically put on their shared calendar:
What this looks like in practice
Rachel, the volunteer coordinator, opens iCalFeed Monday morning. She adds Saturday's adoption event at the farmer's market, updates the weekday dog-walking schedule, and posts the foster orientation date for new applicants. Seven minutes and the whole month is organized.
Greg, a weekend volunteer, checks his phone Thursday night. He sees "Saturday Adoption Event — 9:00 AM Setup, 10 AM to 2 PM, Farmer's Market Pavilion B" on his calendar. He knows exactly when to arrive and where to go. No scrolling through a Facebook group, no texting the coordinator.
On Friday afternoon, the farmer's market moves the shelter's booth from Pavilion B to Pavilion D because of a last-minute vendor change. Rachel updates the location in the dashboard. By Saturday morning, every volunteer's phone shows "Pavilion D." Nobody wanders around looking for the right spot.
How iCalFeed compares
vs. Facebook and Instagram posts
Algorithms bury your events under cute animal photos. Only a fraction of followers see them.
Every subscriber sees every event. No algorithm deciding who finds out about adoption day.
vs. Sign-up sheets at the front desk
Only people who physically visit the shelter see them. Most volunteers aren't there every day.
Events reach every volunteer on their phone, whether they visited this week or not.
vs. Email newsletters
People love the cute animal photos but skip past the event dates. Adoption events get overlooked.
Events appear as calendar appointments — with date, time, and location front and center.
vs. Volunteer management software
Expensive, complicated, and volunteers have to remember another login.
Simple calendar subscription. No login, no training, no extra cost.
Animal shelter calendar questions
More events, more adoptions, more happy tails
Start with the free plan — 1 calendar, 10 events. No credit card required.