Maddie's Fund®
About Maddie's Fund
Maddie's Fund® (www.maddiesfund.org) is a family foundation endowed by the founder of Workday® and PeopleSoft, Dave Duffield and his wife, Cheryl. Maddie's Fund is helping to achieve and sustain a no-kill nation by providing solutions to the most challenging issues facing the animal welfare community through Maddie's® Grant Giving and Maddie's InstituteSM. Maddie's Fund is named after the family's beloved Miniature Schnauzer who passed away in 1997.
Maddie's® Grant Giving
Maddie's Fund grants are designed to help build and sustain a no-kill nation so that shelter dogs and cats can be guaranteed a loving home. The foundation provides strategic funding to collaborative organizations and communities that are leading the way in saving healthy and treatable shelter dogs and cats through innovative marketing, adoption, customer service, and behavioral and medical programs. Grants are also awarded to establish shelter medicine programs at colleges of veterinary medicine so the specialized knowledge and skills of faculty and students can be incorporated in the effort to save all healthy and treatable shelter dogs and cats nationwide.
Maddie's Institute
Maddie's Institute is the academic division of Maddie's Fund, providing cutting edge animal welfare information to shelter staff, veterinarians, rescue groups, and community members to increase the lifesaving of homeless dogs and cats. As the Institute grows and evolves, it will have the personnel, facility, and resources to tackle some of the most challenging problems facing the animal welfare community. Using rigorous academic standards and university caliber staff, the Institute will test current practices and research untried approaches for housing, nutrition, shelter medicine, and technology adapted for animal care. Findings will be disseminated to animal welfare stakeholders through conferences, classes, externships, internships, workshops, and distance learning. The Institute will also provide executive leadership training for individuals and thought leaders with a passion for animal welfare. Special programs will be offered to regional animal welfare staff, volunteers, and foster caregivers, as well as to local area youth (K through college) and the general public.
Maddie's Center
When it opens in 2014, Maddie's Center will offer a unique approach to homeless animal care, one in which each and every dog and cat will be treated as an individual family member rather than as part of a "herd." The tranquil environment will be more like a home than an institution to reflect the Center's integrative wellness approach to care. Center staff will pioneer new advances in shelter medicine, nutrition, housing, and technology adapted for animal care, making the Center a testing ground for new protocols and remedies to make it easier and less costly to treat and place homeless dogs and cats who are sick, injured or poorly behaved.
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Maddie's Fund and the Mayor's Alliance for NYC's Animals
Between 2005 and 2011, Maddie's Fund provided grants totaling more than $26 million to the Alliance to fund the Maddie's Pet Rescue Project in NYC and Maddie's Spay/Neuter Project in NYC to help the Alliance end the killing of healthy and treatable shelter dogs and cats community-wide. The Alliance is the largest Maddie's Fund community project in the United States.
In 2011, Maddie's Fund also provided a one-year grant for the Maddie's Spay/Neuter Project for Stray Community Cats in NYC to provide free spays and neuters for feral and stray cats and kittens in New York City for certified TNR caretakers.
Media Coverage
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PeopleSoft Founder Five Years After Oracle's Buyout by Kym McNicholas, Forbes Wednesday, September 22, 2010 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 |
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by Lisa L. Colangelo, New York Daily News Thursday, February 10, 2005 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 Press Release by the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (ASPCA) Wednesday, February 9, 2005 Press Release by the Office of the Mayor of New York City Wednesday, February 9, 2005 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 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 |