WHAT IS MADDIE'S FUND® ?
The Maddie’s Fund® mission is to revolutionize the status and well-being
of companion animals.
Maddie’s Fund® the Pet Rescue Foundation (http://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 $84.7 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.
Maddie’s Fund also looks to the veterinary community to help achieve the
no-kill nation goal. 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.
Special grants are awarded to selected leaders who have
demonstrated the ability to create change and to save lives; to pilot programs that
promise new lifesaving methods; to spay/neuter programs that target problem
populations; 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.
The project partners include:
Buffalo Humane
The City of Buffalo Animal Shelter
HEART
Second Chance Sheltering Network
The SPCA Serving Erie County
Ten Lives Club
Operation Pets
Black Dog Second Chance
Thursday, April 29, 2010
The Butler Mansion, 672 Delaware Avenue
To benefit the Maddie’s® Pet Rescue Project in Erie County
Join us for a silent and live auction of animal inspired art, including works
from famed photographer William Wegman and
from Buffalo’s own Robby Takac of the Goo Goo Dolls.
Reservations: $40 in advance / $45 at the door
Doors open at 6:00pm
Food and drinks served at 6:30pm
Live auction begins at 8:00pm
To make a reservation, visit:
Thank You to Our Sponsors
Entercom
Buffalo Spree
Design Circus
Paragon Advertising
Brittany Industries
