This award recognizes the #1 high-volume spay/neuter clinic in the United States — the organization that performed the most spay/neuter surgeries in 2025 out of more than 500 clinics nationwide.
Spay/neuter is the cornerstone of preventing shelter overpopulation, reducing euthanasia, and building a more humane future for animals. The recipient of this award represents the very best of that mission: unmatched dedication, efficiency, and impact in providing lifesaving surgeries on the front lines of animal welfare.
The High-Volume Impact Award not only honors extraordinary achievement in numbers, but also shines a light on the tireless teams of veterinary professionals and support staff who make this work possible. Their efforts protect countless animals, support communities, and inspire others to expand access to high-quality, affordable spay/neuter.
This is the largest grant of the night, celebrating the single clinic that has made the greatest measurable difference in the fight to end pet homelessness.
Prize $10,000
This award honors the clinic that delivered the highest number of vaccinations of any type over the award year—core and non-core, primary series and boosters—demonstrating unmatched commitment to prevention, public health, and shelter disease reduction. It recognizes operational excellence and community reach, celebrating teams that remove barriers to care, run efficient vaccine workflows, and keep pets healthy and out of shelters.
Prize: $10,000
This award celebrates the clinic that placed the most microchips over the past year, helping pets stay safe and families stay connected. Each chip represents not just a number, but a promise of security and a better chance of reunion. By leading in microchip placement, this clinic has shown an outstanding commitment to prevention, protection, and the wellbeing of animals in their community.
Prize: $5,000
This award honors the clinic that completed the highest number of spay/neuter surgeries from a mobile unit during the award year—bringing high-quality, high-volume care directly to neighborhoods, rural areas, and communities with limited access. It celebrates field-ready teamwork, efficient logistics, and the calm precision required to run a traveling surgical suite that keeps pets healthy and shelters from overflowing.
The Mobile Unit Impact winner shows what prevention looks like on the move: smart routing, community partnerships, and consistent standards of safety and compassion—turning miles into measurable lifesaving.
Prize $5,000
This award honors the clinic that performed the highest number of spay/neuter surgeries for community cats over the award year, delivering immediate, humane impact where it’s needed most. By preventing litters, stabilizing colonies, and reducing shelter intake, the recipient demonstrates exceptional field readiness, efficient high-volume protocols, and deep community partnership. The Community Cat Champion celebrates the teams who meet cats where they are—on the streets and in neighborhoods—turning compassion into measurable progress for animals and the people who care for them.
Prize: $5,000
This award honors the clinic that completed the highest number of spay/neuter surgeries serving Tribal Nations and communities across Indian Country during the award year. It recognizes teams that pair high-quality, high-volume care with culturally responsive, consent-based partnerships—working alongside tribal leadership, animal control, public health, and community caregivers to expand access, prevent litters, and reduce shelter intake and euthanasia.
The Indian Country Spay/Neuter Impact Award celebrates measurable progress rooted in respect for sovereignty, trust, and long-term collaboration—lifting up the clinics that show what’s possible when skills, empathy, and community partnership come together for animals and the people who care for them.
Prize: $5,000
This award honors a shared Clinic HQ × Shelterluv client with the highest verified number of adoptions recorded in Shelterluv during the award year—while simultaneously demonstrating strong, sustained spay/neuter performance. It celebrates organizations proving you can move animals into loving homes at scale and curb future intake at the source.
By uniting adoption excellence with prevention, the Dual Impact Champion sets the bar for community lifesaving: streamlined shelter pathways, high adoption conversion, and a steadfast commitment to ensuring pets leave—and stay—out of the shelter system.
Prize: $5,000
This award honors the single photo (or tightly curated photo pair) that best captures the grit, skill, and heart of high-volume spay/neuter on the front lines of animal welfare. We’re looking for an image that tells a complete story at a glance—teams moving with calm precision, compassionate care in action, and the quiet heroism that keeps shelters from overflowing. The winning photograph should be authentic, respectful, and mission-forward, illustrating how prevention saves lives and how clinic staff are true first responders in this crisis.
Prize $2,500
This award celebrates the single most creative, high-impact fundraising concept that measurably fuels spay/neuter and preventive care—whether a scrappy campaign, clever partnership, digital activation, or in-person event. The winning idea proves you can raise dollars and awareness at the same time, mobilizing supporters, elevating the mission, and generating revenue that directly expands access to care.
Prize $2,500
Honors the spay/neuter surgeon with the fastest verified operative time, measured by Surgical Start to Surgical End in Clinic HQ’s anesthesia log—while maintaining impeccable safety and quality. Only Checked Out cases are counted, times are validated through Clinic HQ exports, and any flagged or complicated cases are excluded. This award celebrates calm, consistent technique that drives efficiency without ever compromising patient care.
Prize: $1,000
Honors the veterinarian who completes the highest verified number of spay/neuter surgeries in the award year—pairing relentless throughput with rock-solid quality and patient safety. This accolade celebrates steady hands, repeatable technique, and the everyday grit it takes to keep high-volume teams moving. Totals are validated via Clinic HQ (counting only Checked Out cases), and the spirit of the award is simple: unmatched surgical output that never loses sight of compassionate, high-standard care.
Prize: $1,000
Celebrating an Induction technician who goes above and beyond, hustling every day, lifting up their teammates, and adding incredible value to their high-volume clinic. This award honors a true rockstar whose dedication, skill, and spirit make the whole team stronger.
This is a nomination-based award. Nominate someone from your clinic who has gone beyond their daily responsibilities to guide, support, and inspire others. Nominate someone from your clinic for this special award!
Prize: $1,000
This award honors a veterinary technician whose actions in a critical moment led to a positive outcome for a client, patient, or the clinic. Through strong decision-making, skilled care, and compassion, they showed how one moment can make a lasting difference and reflect the best of veterinary medicine.
This is a nomination-based award. Nominate someone from your clinic for this special award!
Prize: $1,000
This award honors a veterinary assistant who stays composed and dependable during the most hectic days. Their steady presence supports the team, comforts patients, and helps the clinic run smoothly, no matter how busy things get.
This is a nomination-based award. Nominate a VA from your clinic who deserves this recognition.
Prize: $1,000
This award honors the clinic member who made the most productive use of Spay/Neuter Central, our community-driven Facebook group where clinics come together to share ideas, ask questions, and support one another.
By actively contributing knowledge, fostering collaboration, and strengthening peer-to-peer learning, this individual exemplifies the spirit of community that helps every clinic do more for the animals and people they serve.
Prize: $1,000
Eligibility: Individual awards are open to team members from U.S.-based, non-profit clinics operating from a single physical site that used Clinic HQ for all case documentation between January 1 and December 31, 2025. Winners must be staff or volunteers of these participating clinics and will be either independently verified by Clinic HQ data/staff or through a peer nomination process, depending on what is specified in the award description.
Prize: $1,000 each
All Individual Awards go directly to the individual NOT THE CLINIC.
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