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Maddie's Fund, The Pet Rescue Foundation (www.maddiesfund.org), is a family foundation funded by PeopleSoft and Workday Founder, Dave Duffield, and his wife, Cheryl, to help create a no-kill nation. The first step is to help develop programs that guarantee loving homes for all healthy shelter dogs and cats throughout the country. The next step is to save the sick, injured, and poorly behaved pets in animal shelters nationwide. Maddie's Fund is named after the Duffield's beloved Miniature Schnauzer. The foundation makes good on a promise the family made to Maddie to give back to her kind in dollars that which Maddie gave to them in friendship and love. Maddie passed away in 1997, but thanks to this one little dog, abandoned shelter dogs and cats have new opportunities to find loving homes in which they, too, may share in the joy, love and companionship that Dave and Cheryl enjoyed with Maddie. Maddie's Fund Mission The Maddie's Fund mission is to revolutionize the status and well-being of companion animals. 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 developing strategic plans are available as precursors to community collaborative grants. Maddie's Fund looks to the veterinary community to help achieve the no-kill nation goal through grants to veterinary medical associations. Private practice veterinarians are encouraged to participate in Maddie-supported low-income spay/neuter programs to help reduce the numbers of unwanted pets entering animal shelters. Maddie's Fund 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. Maddie's Fund provides special grants to selected leaders who have demonstrated the ability to create change and to save lives; to pilot programs that promise new lifesaving methods; to targeted spay/neuter programs; to organizations and communities that are leading the way in achieving lifesaving goals; and for medical equipment in adoption guarantee shelters. Grantmaking efforts will continue to focus on organizations that honor the foundation's core values of honesty, integrity and mutual respect. For updates on Maddie's Fund and its funded partners, go to www.maddiesfund.org, or sign up for a free e-newsletter at www.maddiesfund.org/news. Maddie's Fund and the Mayor's Alliance Maddie's Fund awarded its first grant to Maddie's Pet Rescue and Maddie's Spay/Neuter Projects in New York City in January 2005. The Foundation anticipates spending a total of $23.5 million over seven years to help the Mayor's Alliance end the killing of healthy and treatable shelter dogs and cats community-wide. Thanks to Maddie Maddie was a beloved Miniature Schnauzer whose unconditional love, devotion, loyalty and spirit inspired her caregivers to start a charitable foundation, Maddie's , in her name. The Maddie's Fund purpose is to help the nation's most needy dogs and cats: Dogs and cats who, for one reason or another, have ended up in our nation's animal shelters-homeless, desperate, hoping for a new loving home-and running out of time… Dave and Cheryl Duffield fell in love with Maddie when she was only ten days old. "We held her in our arms, and loved her immediately," says Dave. "Maddie melted our hearts from the first second we saw her," adds Cheryl. "We loved her sweet ways, her stubbornness, her independence, her intelligence, her spirit, and her devotion." Dave, Cheryl and Maddie shared ten memorable and happy years together, years filled with walks in the woods, trips to the beach, and good times at home. Dave remembers one particularly good day during the formation of his company, PeopleSoft. Playing with Maddie, he picked her up and made the following promise: "If we ever make some money, I promise we will give it back to you and your kind so you all can be as happy as we are today." Dave and Cheryl are fulfilling their promise to Maddie. They have endowed Maddie's Fund with more than $250 million and have spent over $33 million so far to save dog and cat lives, and have personally given more of their personal wealth to the animal welfare cause than any other individuals--ever. Dave and Cheryl don't want to make a big fuss over their unprecedented personal contribution. But, they do want to honor their beloved dog and the special bond they shared with her. Animal lovers can understand this sentiment. More and more of us view our companion animals as family, giving them the same care and love we provide our two-legged family members. Our pets enrich our lives with their unconditional devotion to us. They enhance our lives by being a source of stability, love and companionship. The rewards of animal companionship are immeasurable. The love Dave and Cheryl shared with Maddie inspired them to give generously to help save homeless, abandoned shelter pets in desperate need of love and care. Thanks to Maddie, the dog with the indomitable spirit, these special animals are afforded new opportunities to find loving homes in which they, too, may share in the joy, love and companionship that Dave and Cheryl enjoyed with Maddie. On behalf of all sheltered dogs and cats, we give thanks to Maddie, whose spirit lives on through the lives her memorable gift has touched. More About Maddie's Fund and the Mayor's Alliance 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 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
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