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Hello Nouns family! So happy to share our first Nouns Shelter (Proposal 462) progress here! We made corrections prior to execution based on Nouns community feedback that I will go through below.
1. We changed planned spending based on feedback to put more resources to encourage mini shelter usage and tied pet food donations to shelter distribution. We produced 220 mini shelters and matched 2000 kg of cat food with mini shelters.
2. We collaborated with the largest animal rescue organization in Shanghai and Beijing to execute the project and have permanent displays in both Joy City Mall in Shanghai and 康信天力动物医院 in Beijing.
3. We changed the designs of the minishelters prior to production based on our shift to Shanghai and Beijing and redesigned a second shelter to meet the needs of different climates between the cities. Our shelters are produced for durability, increased size (These now fit 3-5 strays per shelter!), utilizing primarily recycled materials, and we are very thankful that some of our early volunteers who supported us with their engineering skills to help make sure that these shelters would be able to last for multiple years. Based on the comments from the proposal during voting phase, we reached out to ccarella and others who provided feedback after our proposal passed and have received positive feedback from volunteers for the quality of shelters compared to commercial options available.
4, We set up applications for our Nouns Mini Shelter events to be able to track each shelter individually through volunteers and tied the distribution of food to each of the volunteers of the shelters. All of the members in our chat group give us feedback about mini shelters and the stray cats that lived inside. (Fun fact: we just had our first weasel enter a shelter this weekend also)
5. We hosted the first event in Shanghai on Jan 20th-21th, distributing 100 Mini Shelters and 100 bags of cat food to 100+ volunteers.
5. We hosted the second event in Beijing on Jan 28th in an animal hospital in Chaoyang District, distributing 100 Mini Shelters and 100 bags of cat food to 50+ volunteers. Having the volunteers build their own shelter and tag their shelter with their designated number also allowed us to educate volunteers on best practices for animal awareness. I am extremely thankful for this group of volunteers for sticking it out in the -8c weather to make this happen.
6, We built Twitter, Instagram for our global audience, Little Red and Weibo for Chinese audiences. We posted the feedback from our volunteers on our social media account every week. We are planning to scale these up with produced content as our team did not expect the amount of coordination work associated with running these programs remotely. You should start seeing updates right around the time of Chinese New Year with higher quality updates.
[https://twitter.com/NounsShelter](https://twitter.com/NounsShelter)
[https://www.instagram.com/nounsshelter/](https://www.instagram.com/nounsshelter/)
[https://www.xiaohongshu.com/user/profile/65359ef7000000000301d2b5?xhsshare=CopyLink&appuid=65359ef7000000000301d2b5&apptime=1706912554](https://www.xiaohongshu.com/user/profile/65359ef7000000000301d2b5?xhsshare=CopyLink&appuid=65359ef7000000000301d2b5&apptime=1706912554)
[https://weibo.com/u/3365413064](https://weibo.com/u/3365413064)
7. We are preparing a donation event for 200 stray dogs in Beijing this weekend starting with a 2,000kg donation from Nouns Shelter along with wet food donations for the cats in this specific event.
8. This is an early update from us and we will keep updating our Nouns shelter progress for all Nouners. Please feel free to reach out if you have any other questions or want to support the project too. We are planning a few other activations and developing new product designs and are excited to share that progress with you as we flesh out concepts into production. I hope you all had a great first month of the year and thank you again for letting us have the opportunity build Nouns shelter. Stay tuned for Update #2!