2026: A Year of Expansion

Adapting to the needs of our community is at the core of Alaska SPCA’s mission. Executive director, Kelly Donnelly, wrote about the transition from privilege to partnership within the animal welfare field recently, and it serves as both a retrospective and a roadmap.

We can see within Alaska SPCA’s own 70-year history, a shift to be more responsive, more intentional, and more impactful in caring for the animals in our local communities and those across Alaska. And our goals for the future will allow us to reach more pets, more people, and more communities in the coming years. 

We are proud to report that this year will be one of expansion for Alaska SPCA. We are growing to match the needs of the community. This means additional services offered at our Anchorage veterinary clinic, more Mobile Outreach clinics to underserved/rural communities, and increased care and supplies delivered to the pets of our houseless neighbors through our Street Outreach program. We’ve also created additional emergency placement space within our shelter so we can be ready to shelter pets displaced by natural disasters. 

Care, compassion, and community have guided our mission for 70 years. Thanks to supporters like you, we will keep meeting our community members and their pets where they are, so the human-animal bond can remain intact and thriving.  

Expanded: Clinic Services 

We’re expanding the hours at our veterinary clinic in Anchorage to extend our community’s access to services. 

For community members whose 

schedule doesn’t work with our Mon

day – Friday business hours, they can now schedule their pet’s spay/neuter surgeries and vaccines for Saturday.  

Ready to schedule an appointment? Click here. 

Expanded: Street Outreach Services

At Alaska SPCA, we strive to meet the needs of our community’s pets, by meeting their human companions where they are. We believe the power of the human-animal bond is not dependent on living conditions. By providing access to veterinary care and supplies, we can bridge the gap between circumstance and compassionate care.

We formed our Street Outreach team in 2023 in response to the increase in houseless neighbors—many with beloved pets. Last year, this innovative program hit the streets over 20 times, delivering veterinary care, food, water, and other pet supplies.  

The need is larger than ever, so in 2026, our Street Outreach team will be out in our community weekly, meeting the pets in the houseless communities and providing the necessities to keep them healthy and happy. For many houseless community members, their pets are emotional lifelines. 

Fostering empathy and strengthening the power of the human-animal bond creates a more humane community, this is Alaska SPCA’s way of honoring that mission.  

Expanded: Mobile Outreach Clinics

In many Alaskan communities, access to veterinary care—particularly spay/neuter surgeries—is limited by location or by service cost. Thankfully, we have the high-volume mobile spay/neuter clinic model down to a science, so we’re expanding our Mobile Outreach Clinic program this year as well. 

In 2026, we will strengthen our partnership network across Alaska, with goals of providing low-cost clinics to more areas across the state, specifically in the more rural communities. 

Not everyone can come to us, so we’re going to them.

By traveling to underserved and rural areas, Alaska SPCA makes spay/neuter services accessible to pet owners who face geographic, financial, or logistical barriers to care. 

For families on tight budgets or living far from veterinary providers, our mobile clinics are more than a convenience—they’re a lifeline. 

Expanded: Emergency Shelter Space

When Typhoon Halong struck in October, Alaska SPCA was ready to help.

Our team quickly mobilized—gathering kennels, food, pet supplies, and critical veterinary items—and sent them to Bethel to support pets and people impacted by the storm. 

We were already working on shelter improvements, including increasing our usable space, so we strategized ways to make room in an emergency. 

Essential maintenance and repairs, along with outdoor upgrades and additional fencing, have created more room to safely house and exercise pets if an emergency need arose. 

Although these expanded spaces are reserved for

emergencies, they reflect a larger dream: a bigger shelter that will let us grow our services and help even more animals year-round. 

Learn more about our dream here.