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
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
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