Advancing Empathy Grant Program Toolkits

This resource was funded by the Advancing Empathy Grant Program.

Woodland Park Zoo’s Advancing Empathy (AE) Initiative, launched in 2019, supports AZA-accredited zoos and aquariums in fostering empathy for wildlife. The AE Grant Program funds projects across Alaska, Idaho, Minnesota, Montana, North Dakota, Washington and Wisconsin and helps organizations plan, build, and expand practices that create lasting impacts on empathy-based programming. Grant recipients share outcomes, best practices, and resources with the ACE for Wildlife™ Network, fostering global collaboration.

To make the grant-funded resources developed by all projects more accessible, the AE team is creating toolkits organized around 10 themes including:

Animal ambassadors
Construction
On-site interpretation
Animal care play spaces & young learners
Diversity, equity, accessibility and inclusion
Educational programs & partnerships
Staff and volunteers
Animal husbandry
Long term planning
Signage

The toolkits include AE grants funded in the 2020 grant pilot program and all current, and eventually future rounds.

DEAI Toolkit Educational Programs Toolkit Signage Toolkit Ambassador Animal Toolkit Animal Husbandry Toolkit Infrastructure with Intent Toolkit Animal Care Play Spaces Young Learners Toolkit

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ambassador animals
animal wellbeing
construction
DEAI
grant
school programs
Signage

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