Our Mission is to Help You

With many worthwhile animal causes to support, it’s easy to feel overwhelmed and powerless. By banding together like-minded folks with a strong, collective voice, the goal of BtC4Animals is to ignite and accelerate the change we can make as individuals at a pace that doesn’t overwhelm.

BtC4Animals highlights one cause per week and provides information on how readers can help. Calls to action don’t require money or more than 15 minutes to complete and typically involve actions like signing a petition or participating in a letter-writing campaign for the protection of voiceless domesticated pets, farm animals and wildlife alike.

Champion Your Cause

Do you have a mission to improve the lives of animals with a specific call to action? Submit your cause! If selected, we will be your sounding box, your greatest cheerleader, and we will report your successes back to the community throughout your campaign.

SUBMIT YOUR CAUSE TODAY!

Not sure how to create a cause? Visit Change.org! This site is a valuable resource for managing petition campaigns.

Please note: Monetary contributions will not be solicited on your behalf and products with a portion of donated profits will not be featured.

Our Core Foundation: YOU

Your role is simple and most important. Answer the weekly call to action. Tweet it, post it to Facebook or write a blog post. Each act, great and small, spreads the word and creates an enormous impact. Following these simple ideas, you’ll be the shoulders that lift our champions toward their goal!

Blog the Change Events

Blog the Change, for writers and readers alike, takes place on 1/15, 4/15, 7/15 and 10/15 annually. If you have a blog, join us in any way that inspires you. Write about actions you have taken personally. Promote a shelter in need. Publicly announce new commitments and inspire others to join you. This is your chance to rally people around a cause near and dear to your heart. Learn more…

BtC History

In March of 2010, more than 50 bloggers partook in an experiment, the Be the Change Challenge, choosing one day of action and blogging about a plethora of animal needs. The list of creative, ambitious and actionable solutions offered a tangible feeling of solidarity to make the world a better place for animals in need. What was missing was a way to reconnect.

Inspired by the strength and support of this passionate animal community, Kim Clune of  This One Wild Life wanted to recapture the energy of that day, to create a central place to share information regularly, to bring people together to make a difference for all animals, domestic and wild.

Kim shared her thoughts with Amy Burkert of GoPetFriendly.com, and together, they felt an unmistakable energy, a creative spark and the determination to bring their ideas to fruition. Kim developed a website to create a community connection through quarterly Blog the Change events. Amy brought Cause of the Week to the table.

Within the scope of a year, volunteer writers and cause scouts coalesced to from Team BTC, making this a community-run website managed by Kim with valuable, democratic input from all. By 2011, the BTC community had grown more than 12,000 supporters strong, and the work of each important member was duly recognized when BTC4animals.com was nominated Best Cause Blog for the 2011 Petties Awards.

Because this project was created to represent a movement rather than a leadership, the torch was gladly passed in 2013 from Kim Clune to dedicated alumni volunteers Vicki Cook, Kim Thomas and Peggy Frezon, allowing for new life, breath and energy to enter in.

Welcome to our vision, our contribution to Be the Change —  a movement with no leaders, no limits and all the possibility in the world. We hope you find it useful.

Sincerely,
Team BTC and the BTC community

CONGRATULATIONS!