My Dog Is My Home is a national nonprofit dedicated to
expanding access to shelter for individuals experiencing homelessness and their companion animals.
We work to assist service providers like homeless shelters expand their programming to allow humans and their companion animals to remain together.
OUR Mission
My Dog Is My Home's mission is to increase access to shelter and housing for people experiencing homelessness with companion animals. By securing their ability to maintain their most important relationships and find adequate shelter, we ensure every family’s right to build a home.
Our Vision
We envision equitable access to home for all people and all families.
Why we work
meet our team
We are primarily driven by volunteers. Learn more about our volunteers, staff, and board members here.
How we work towards our mission
Rather than rebuild the wheel, MDIMH works to assist existing organizations that provide services to people experiencing homelessness. For this reason, we are not a direct service organization and instead focus our time on helping other services build their capacity to serve human-animal families.
Our activities normally fall within one of the following categories: research, technical assistance and consultation, and training and education.
“A dog gives you somebody to talk to—I mean my dog is my home—he keeps me warm when it’s cold and gives me somebody to talk to when I’m walking down the highway.”
Our Programs:
Tell Stories.
Expertise isn’t just about knowing the data and trends. It’s also about the lived experience. The people who have the most to gain have the most to share and are our greatest sources of information.
Share Data.
Community collaboration is key to change. Open source and access to information are integral to any effective social justice movement.
Change Systems.
Systematic approaches that are creative and grounded in evidence are not only possible but necessary to address complex and intersecting social problems.
Change Lives.
Animals and people share a social environment. Helping animals helps people, and helping people helps animals.