We believe the LUFA World family can make a significant difference for animals around the world. We urge you to be their voice by signing petitions for animal legislation, volunteering at a local animal event, fostering and by donating money to your favorite organization. The LUFA vision is huge and needs all of us to do a small part for the animals we love and cherish. After you register an account, please jump on to LUFA Social and let the world know, you are now a member of the largest army of animal lovers ready to protect animals every day.

By joining the LUFA’s online family, our collective voice grows stronger every day. There are two types of membership available: Individual and Organization memberships for nonprofits and animal shelters.

• Love animals 
• Must be 18 years old
• Must be respectful of all organizations and members on LUFA Social

The Organization Membership

Registering your organization (animal sanctuary, nonprofit or shelter) is a wonderful way to elevate your organization’s visibility, share your successes, find volunteers, announce events, fundraise and reach larger audiences, in real time.

To register your organization, you must:

• Represent a registered official 501c3 nonprofit animal organization with an EIN (employer identification number) or an animal shelter.
  If you represent an animal welfare group, but are not an official animal shelter or 501c3 with an EIN, please register for an individual account and create a group page for your animal organization.
• Love animals
• Must be 18 years old
• Be respectful of all organizations and members on LUFA Social

Organization Memberships can be listed on LUFA PAGES

Once you complete your organization's registration, you will be able to list your organization in the directories on LUFA Pages. Creating your directory listing allows you to put a little shine on what you do by adding information the public will use. Our goal is to help highlight your organization and the amazing work you do. If your organization is already listed, you will be able to claim your listing but you must register your organization first.  

Once registered, please check your email for 2 messages.

1. 1. "Welcome to LUFA World" email, which will inclued your account details: username and password.
   2. "LUFA Account Activation" email. which will include instructions on how to active your account. You must activate your account before logging in.

IMPORTANT: If you don’t find these emails in your inbox, please check your Junk or Spam folders.

Now that your account is activated, login into your account and start a conversation.

If you have deceided to delete your account, you can follow the link below and delete your account: https://lufaworld.com/lufasocial/profile/deleteProfile.html

• https://www.lufaworld.com/lufasocial.html

There are two ways to login to LUFA Social.

1. Go to the LUFA World App or tothe website:  https://www.lufaworld.com/lufasocial.html
   in the login window

• First select the Remember Me check box to stay logged in.
• Then enter your Username and Password
• If you forget your username, password or need to resend your activation email, chose from the following options on the login page.
  Forgot Username? Forgot Password? Resend activation link?

2. From any page on the website: https://lufaworld.com

• From the main navigation select LUFA Social or from a laptop/desktop click Login in the upper right corner of the site.
• First select the Remember Me check box to stay logged in.
• Then enter your Username and Password
• If you forget your username, password or need to resend your activation email, chose from the following options on the login page.
  Forgot Username? Forgot Password? Resend activation link?

• Click the Remember Me check box under the Login button before clicking the button to login.
• Keep your account active by Posting/Commenting/Liking on LUFA Social often 

This can be done from your profile after login.

• Click on your username or profile/avatar pic to get to your Profile page
• Mouse over and click on your current profile/avatar pic found on the upper left side of your profile next your your username. If this is your first time adding an image to your profile you will be clicking on the dark circle with the LUFA hand and paw icon. A faint camara image will appear over your profile pic.
  
• Select Upload Photo and choose an image. This will upload your photo.
• Square photo ration of 1:1 work best (500px by 500px). 
• Before saving your new image, you will be able to rotate or crop your photo by dragging the box outline over the part of the photo you wish to show. 
• Once satisfied with the image placement click the button to Save Thumbnail
• To change your picture at any time, just follow these same steps

This can be done from your profile after login.

• Click on your username or use navigation to get to your Profile page
• Click on the gear icon in the upper right of your cover photo.

• Choose Modify Cover in the drop-down menu
• Click Upload Photo and select the image
• Use a photo ratio of 8:3 will work best (1000px by 375px).
  Some cropping will occur in the mobile version of your profile.
• Follow this step anytime to you wish to change your cover in the future.

To change your notification preferences using a mobile device.

• Log into LUFA Social and select the Single Person Icon on Navigation Bar.

• From the menu selection, select Preferences.

• Select General and then select Emails and Notifications.

• A list of Notifications is available. When the Email Notification Box is selected, you will receive email notifications. Selecting the On-Site Notification Box will create an on-site notifications on LUFA Social.

To change your notification preferences using a laptop or desktop computer.

• Log into LUFA Social and select the Profile option on the navigation bar.
• On the Profile drop-down menu select Preferences.
• Then select Emails & Notifications
• A list of notifications is available. When the Email Notification Box is selected, you will receive email notifications. Selecting the On-Site Notification Box will create an on-site notification.

• FOR THE BEST RESULTS, we recommend you first upload your video to a hosting service such as YouTube.com or Vimeo.com account.
• Copy the Video’s url provided by the hosting service. (On YouTube, when you select the the share function, it will provide the video's url. Make sure to copy the url.)
• Navigate to LUFA Social and select the Video Icon 
• Click on the words "add video url"
• Paste the video's url into the box of your post.
• Give the system a moment to populate the video
• Now click in the box below the video to add an intorduction or caption to the video post. 
• Click the Post Button to complete your post

IMPORTANT - You must upload the photo or image first, before adding a caption.  

• Select the camera icon

• You can Select or Drag and Drop Images into the specified area. 

• Once the image has loaded, you can add an introduction or caption to your image
• Click the Post Button to complete the post.

IMPORTANT - Oops, my photo loaded sideways!

On occasion, photos or images can load sideways, to correct this:

• Double click the photo and select the gear icon or Options on the bottom of the page.
• Rotate your photo to the correct position.

You must first register your animal organization before you can add/claim a listing for your organization to one of the LUFA Pages directories

• Activate your organization account and login

• Check the directories to see if your organization is listed. Listings can be posted in more than one directory category, so please check all the categories. 

• If there is a listing, you can claim it by clicking the orange button that says claim. You must be a registered organization to claim the listing.

• Once our team has verified your claim, it will be approved and the listing ownership will be transfered to your organization's LUFA account. You will then be able to make edits to your listing and update information and photos.  Please replace the image on the listing with images of animals in your care and your staff and volunteers.

• If your organization is not listed and you would like to list it. Please register your organization for a LUFA Social Account. 

• Navigate to LUFA Pages

• Select the directory category that best suits your organization.

• Click the blue button that says: Add your listing here 

• Follow the directions and enter the information and photos for your organization

• Submit the listing for review

• The LUFA team will review your listing.

• Once approved, the listing will show up in the LUFA Pages directory category you selected. Listings can be posted in more than one directory category.   

• You will be able to maintain your listing by making edits to your listing to update information and photos.