Here’s why we’re doing this.
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Nick Apollo · Founder
We’re entrepreneurs putting our own resources behind a simple belief: more animals deserve a home, and more people deserve that companionship.
Talk to our team →Good things start when people meet.
Trust Events helps people find local business events and build relationships in their city. Best Friend gives people a shared reason to put those relationships to work: helping animals get home.
From connections to care.
Trust Events powers and funds Best Friend. Its local network is a way to reach the organizers, businesses, and neighbors who can help this movement grow.
From care to community.
Best Friend brings animal lovers together. Through Trust Events, they can keep meeting people, invite friends to local events, and build relationships beyond this mission.
We fund the work. You help it reach people.
Our founders are self-funding the work, with support from Trust Events and paid partners. We’re not taking grants or donations. If you want to help, send Best Friend to someone who loves animals.
What we’re building
More people helping animals get home.
Tools and a network of shelters, foster homes, adopters, and volunteer drivers that any community can build. Your share helps us find the people to make it happen.
A place to stay.
Foster homes give animals somewhere safe to land while they wait for a family.
How fostering worksA way to get there.
Volunteer drivers help animals travel from crowded shelters to places with room.
Explore transport volunteeringPeople who care.
Local organizers bring the shelters, volunteers, and neighbors together.
Bring it to your communityOur longer-term vision includes working with social-service organizations to connect animals with people who need companionship—from young people and seniors to veterans and people rebuilding their lives.
A nonprofit with a planned ending
A home for them.
An ending for us.
We want every community to have what it needs to get animals out of overcrowded shelters and into safe homes. A model people can copy, share, and run themselves.
If that means one day Best Friend no longer needs to exist, we’ll have done what we came here to do.