SALT LAKE CITY — Holly Sizemore, executive director of No More Homeless Pets in Utah for the past three years, will join the staff of the Kanab-based Best Friends Animal Society on Aug. 1 as senior manager in the society's community programs and services division
Her work will focus on major national campaigns that address the leading causes of homelessness among companion animals.
"I am thrilled to continue working in the No More Homeless Pets movement by joining Best Friends, and I am excited to take my knowledge of the amazing work that No More Homeless Pets in Utah achieved and use it to help other communities throughout the country save more lives," Sizemore said.
Best Friends created No More Homeless Pets in Utah out of a coalition of more than 50 municipal and nonprofit animal welfare groups to reduce the euthanasia rate and boost adoptions throughout the state.
Since its inception in 2000, the organization has saved the lives of more than 100,000 cats and dogs.
Sizemore became executive director in 2007, and during her tenure she developed and refined many programs that have since been copied in other communities.