A young volunteer crouching beside a happy shelter dog in a sunlit yard

Help shelters get their animals seen.

Volunteer with local shelters, create content, and help more animals get noticed.

For VolunteersFor Shelters
Volunteer filming a shelter dog with a smartphone

For Volunteers

Find a shelter, apply to volunteer, create photos and videos, and see your impact on one dashboard.

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Shelter staff member reviewing volunteer photos on a laptop at the front desk

For Shelters

Recruit volunteers, review the content they create, and build a library of approved photos and videos for your shelter.

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Inside nuzl

One product, two sides — from signup to a shelter's approved content library.

Here's how nuzl actually works: sign up, get onboarded and schedule a shift, upload what you create, tag it so it's findable, and track your impact.

  1. 01Signup
  2. 02Scheduling
  3. 03Uploading
  4. 04Tags
  5. 05Dashboard

Signup

Easy signup for volunteers and shelters.

Volunteers answer one short question per screen and pick a shelter. Shelters are approved by nuzl, then set up their profile, locations, and application in a guided wizard. 

Volunteer signup

  • Name
  • Location
  • Student status
  • Interests

Shelter setup

  • Shelter profile
  • Locations
  • Application
  • Volunteer onboarding

Scheduling

Pick a shift that fits your week.

Shelters post shifts by location. Volunteers browse a calendar, list, or map, reserve a spot, and add it straight to their own calendar.

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Volunteers walking two shelter dogs

Los Gatos Shelter · Saturday

10:00–12:00 · 3 spots left

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Uploading content

Upload raw and edited content in one place.

Volunteers upload straight from their phone, keep raw and edited versions together, and submit for the shelter to approve or send back for edits.

Upload content

Raw

Unedited phone photo of a shelter dog sitting in a kennel

Edited

Edited, color-graded portrait of a smiling shelter dog
2 files readySubmit

Tags

Shelter tags keep every photo findable.

Shelters create their own tags — animals, settings, anything — and volunteers apply them at upload, so the approved library stays organized the shelter's way.

Puppy running across a sunny shelter yard
MateoOutdoorPuppyIn-shelterOlder dog

One video, three tags — it shows up under each of them.

Dashboard

Volunteers see their impact in one place.

Upcoming shifts, hours logged, submitted content and approvals — every volunteer gets a simple dashboard that tracks what they've contributed.

12

Hours

34

Uploads

28k

Views

Recent submissions

Approved photo of a dog running outdoorsApproved photo of a dog napping in a kennelApproved portrait of a fluffy puppyApproved photo of volunteers walking two dogs

Ready to help more animals get seen?

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