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Maddie's Fund®, The Pet Rescue Foundation

About Maddie's Fund

Maddie's Fund® , The Pet Rescue Foundation, (www.maddiesfund.org), is a family foundation established in 1999 to help fund the creation of a no-kill nation where all healthy and treatable shelter dogs and cats are guaranteed a loving home. Since its inception, Maddie's Fund has awarded animal welfare organizations and universities more than $96.1 million to save animal lives.

PeopleSoft and Workday Founder, Dave Duffield and his wife, Cheryl, created Maddie's Fund. The foundation makes good on a promise the Duffields made to their beloved Miniature Schnauzer, Maddie, to give back to her kind in dollars that which Maddie gave to them in companionship and love. Maddie passed away in 1997, but thanks to this one little dog, abandoned shelter animals have new opportunities to find loving homes in which they, too, may share in the joy and love that Dave and Cheryl enjoyed with Maddie.

Maddie's Fund supports collaborative efforts in which entire cities and counties pool their talents and resources to build a safety net of care for the community's dogs and cats. The foundation awards millions of dollars through multi-year grants to animal welfare coalitions to end the killing of healthy and treatable shelter dogs and cats community-wide. Funded projects must produce an immediate and measurable increase in adoptions and reduction in shelter deaths to demonstrate progress towards the goal. Starter Grants for gathering shelter statistics and writing business and strategic plans are available as precursors to community collaborative grants.

The foundation offers grants to colleges of veterinary medicine to establish shelter medicine programs so that the specialized knowledge and skills of these institutions' faculty and students can be incorporated into the effort to save all healthy and treatable shelter pets nationwide.

Special grants are awarded to selected leaders who have demonstrated the ability to create change and to save lives; to programs that promise new lifesaving methods and opportunities; to organizations and communities that are leading the way in achieving lifesaving goals through marketing and other means; and to adoption guarantee shelters for new medical equipment.

Grantmaking efforts focus on organizations that honor the foundation's core values of honesty, integrity, and mutual respect.

Maddie's Fund and the Mayor's Alliance for NYC's Animals

Maddie's Fund is the largest funder of the Mayor's Alliance for NYC's Animals, and the Mayor's Alliance is the largest Maddie's Fund community project in the United States.

Maddie's Fund awarded its first grant to Maddie's Pet Rescue Project in NYC and Maddie's Spay/Neuter Project in NYC in January 2005. The Foundation anticipates spending a total of $24.4 million over seven years to help the Mayor's Alliance end the killing of healthy and treatable shelter dogs and cats community-wide. In 2011, Maddie's Fund provided a grant for the Maddie's Spay/Neuter Project for Stray Community Cats in NYC that provides free spays and neuters for feral and stray cats and kittens in New York City for certified TNR caretakers.

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Media Coverage

PeopleSoft Founder Five Years After Oracle's Buyout
by Kym McNicholas, Forbes

PeopleSoft Founder Five Years After Oracle's Buyout

by Kym McNicholas, Forbes

Wednesday, September 22, 2010

Amid Economic Challenges, the Mayor's Alliance for NYC's Animals Remains On-Track for "No-Kill" City Goal by 2015

Press Release by the Mayor's Alliance for NYC's Animals

Tuesday, April 13, 2010

Mayor's No-Kill Initiative Reaches Midpoint

by Jonathan Weeks, The Epoch Times

Thursday, January 22, 2009

Progress Cited in 'No Kill' Goal for Animals

by Sewell Chan, The New York Times

Wednesday, January 21, 2009

The Mayor's Alliance for NYC's Animals on Track for 'No-Kill' City by 2015

Press Release by the Mayor's Alliance for NYC's Animals

Wednesday, January 21, 2009

Maddie's Fund Awards $300,000 For Competition To Adopt Hard To Place Pets

Press Release by Maddie's Fund

Monday, January 21, 2008

Maddie's claims success with NYC shelter animals

by JAVMA News

Friday, June 1, 2007

Zero Deaths for New York's Healthy Shelter Pets in February

Press Release by Maddie's Fund

March 2007

Maddie's Fund Gives $15.5 million for Animal Welfare

News For You: In the Mews, Cat Fancy

July 2005, p. 10

Couple Donates $93-Million to Foundation Dedicated to Improving Care of Pets

by Caroline Preston, The Chronicles of Philanthropy

Thursday, June 2, 2005

No More Homeless Pets News: Pups in Lights

Best Friends Magazine, March/April 2005, p. 24

NYC ATMs offer more than money: Mayor's Alliance for Animals uses technology to save lives

by Nikki Moustaki, Dog Fancy, April 2005, p. 16

Message from the President: Maddie's Fund Grant Receives Mayoral Recognition

by Jane Hoffman, Out of the Cage! (Volume 2: Issue 2/3)

February/March 2005

Alliance News: Maddie's Spay/Neuter Project Aims to Alter the Course of Pet Overpopulation in NYC

Out of the Cage! (Volume 2: Issue 2/3)

February/March 2005

Animal Adoption Agencies To Share Windfall Of $15.5M

by Amy Lotven, Queens Chronicle

Thursday, February 17, 2005

New York's doggy chic takes serious turn with 'no kill' plan

by Alexandra Marks, The Christian Science Monitor

Monday, February 14, 2005

Grant will save animals' lives, mayor says

by Michael Scholl, Staten Island Advance

Thursday, February 10, 2005

$15.5M grant to aid animals

by Lisa L. Colangelo, New York Daily News

Thursday, February 10, 2005

Grant promotes pet adoption

by Dan Janison, Newsday

Wednesday, February 9, 2005

PeopleSoft's Duffield Puts Up Millions to Save NYC's Stray Pets

by Henry Goldman, Bloomberg.com

Wednesday, February 9, 2005

Mayor Michael Bloomberg and ASPCA's President Ed Sayres Welcomed Maddie's Fund to New York City Today

Press Release by the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (ASPCA)

Wednesday, February 9, 2005

Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg and Maddie's Fund Announce $15.5 Million Grant to New York City for Animal Adoption

Press Release by the Office of the Mayor of New York City

Wednesday, February 9, 2005

NYC Mayor Michael Bloomberg Acknowledges Receipt of $15.5 Million Maddie's Fund Grant for NYC Animal Adoptions

Press Release by the Mayor's Alliance for NYC's Animals

Wednesday, February 9, 2005

Maddie's Fund to Give New York City $15.5 Million

Press Release by Maddie's Fund

January 2005

Message from the President: Maddie's Fund Grant Delivers Much-needed Funds to Help NYC's Homeless Animals

by Jane Hoffman, Out of the Cage! (Volume 2: Issue 1)

January 2005

NYC receives $15.5 million from Maddie's

by Best Friends Animal Society, No More Homeless Pets Weekly News

Sunday, December 26, 2004

Maddie's Fund Grant Offers $15.5 Million for NYC's Homeless Animals

Press Release by the Mayor's Alliance for NYC's Animals

Monday, December 20, 2004

Alliance News: What You Should Know About Maddie's Fund

by Jane Hoffman, President, Mayor's Alliance for NYC's Animals

Out of the Cage! (Volume 1: Issue 3)

December 2004

Alliance News: A Strategy for Transforming NYC into a "No-Kill" City

by Jane Hoffman, President, Mayor's Alliance for NYC's Animals

Out of the Cage! (Volume 1: Issue 1)

October 2004

Great Expectations! New Mayor's Alliance Comes to the Rescue of New York Animals

by Julie Richard, Best Friends Magazine, July/August 2004, pp. 12–17

Person of the Month: Jane Hoffman

The Manhattan Pet Gazette, Volume 1: Number 6, April 2003, p. 4

An Interview with Jane Hoffman, President and Chair of the Board, Mayor's Alliance for NYC's Animals

by Maddie's Fund

March 2003

City's Death-Row Pets Have a Chance to Live

by Heidi Singer, Staten Island Advance

Sunday, January 12, 2003