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Lost Our Home Pet Rescue was founded in 2008 as a grassroots response to the housing crisis that left thousands of people displaced and thousands of pets abandoned. Lost Our Home Founder and Executive Director, Jodi Polanski, worked as a local mortgage banker during that time and witnessed these devastating results firsthand.
Pets were abandoned in foreclosed homes, often without food or water. Others were forced into shelters—their owners having no other choice. With the second highest foreclosure rates, and the second highest shelter-euthanasia rates, Maricopa County was experiencing a crisis and no existing service was designed to address the needs of both people and pets.
Jodi was quick to recognize this urgent need and launched Lost Our Home Pet Rescue with just a small network of volunteers who were focused on helping the pets that had been abandoned during the housing crisis. Help and hope were on the way!

It's been quite a year so far capturing the events our chapter has done. Please check out our second newsletter of the year to see what we have accomplished, a member spotlight, committee information and what events will be coming up within the next quarter.

If you have ideas, suggestions or want to send pictures of AZNIGP events to be added to future newsletters, please contact the Newsletter Chair, Tanya Wilson.

Dear AZ NIGP Members,
Wow it is already September! Hopefully, the heat will break soon and I hope your survived the Haboob last week. What a wall of dust that was. Soon we will be enjoying the weather we all live here for. For me, I live in Arizona because I am from Chicago. Don’t miss those cold winters at all.
On August 5th, we held our in-person Career Seminar II with close to 100 in attendance. Dr. Kristen Hurtado of the Center for Procurement Excellence talked about Navigating Procurement Challenges in Service Contracts and gave us Strategies for Success. Also, David Stueber, Arizona State Procurement Administrator and his team provided us with a Glance into the Future of Statewide Procurement. We celebrated the folks that received their certification in the Spring testing window. It was a wonderful in-person meeting. We are still working on a hybrid solution in the very near future so that more folks may have an opportunity to benefit when they are unable to attend in