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We will be undergoing scheduled maintenance during this time to improve the applicant experience and our infrastructure. We expect to complete the updates within 6 hours. During this time, portions of the workspace may throw Internal Application Service Errors or function abnormally. You can follow our progress on our status page.
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On r/AnimalRescue, our Discord, and across the wider web, we believe in fostering safe, inclusive spaces where everyone can seek help, learn, and advocate for animal welfare. To protect a diverse, global community of rescuers and animal lovers, our internal team must reflect that same diversity.
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We Embrace Diversity: We recognize that our different backgrounds, perspectives, and lived experiences make us better at spotting risks, solving complex community issues, and building fairer verification models.
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We Grow Talent: We actively nurture our volunteers' skills, offering structured training and pathways to support your personal and professional growth at every step.
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We Value Inclusivity: We welcome everyone to the table. We foster an environment where team members feel confident sharing ideas, challenging processes, and improving how we operate.
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Inclusion is embedded directly into our internal onboarding and management tracks. Our team leads receive continuous guidance on building trust within our community, moderating with empathy, and giving growth-focused feedback. These modules are accessible year-round to anyone, regardless of role.
We understand that our team members balance school, careers, and personal lives. We design our verification workflows to be highly flexible and asynchronous, ensuring that caretaking responsibilities, neurodiversity, or varied time zones are never a barrier to contributing meaningfully to our mission.
We build clear, objective rubrics for reviewing applications and managing community safety. Our processes are designed to mitigate bias and ensure every community member—and every volunteer applicant—is treated with dignity, fairness, and absolute transparency.
Our Junior Moderator Program requires zero prior moderation experience. We don’t gatekeep community leadership behind resumes; if you have a passion for safety, integrity, and animal welfare, we will give you the tools and training to succeed.
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At Cardinal+, equity isn't just an aspiration—it is fundamental to how we protect our community. We strictly prohibit and do not tolerate discrimination, harassment, or biased treatment against any volunteer, applicant, or community member. Our operational workflows, application evaluations, and internal advancements are conducted entirely without regard to race, color, religion, sex, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, age, veteran status, or any other legally protected characteristic.
We are committed to maintaining an objective, merit-based environment where every individual is evaluated solely on their integrity, collaboration, and dedication to community safety and animal welfare. Bias has no place in our verification models, and we actively enforce standardized protocols to ensure fair, equitable treatment for everyone who interacts with our platform.
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