Maddie's Fund, The Pet Rescue Foundation, Grants

MADDIE'S®  PET RESCUE PROJECT IN DANE COUNTY

MADDIE'S® SPAY/NEUTER PROJECT IN DANE COUNTY

What is the primary goal of the grants?

To achieve this goal, Maddie's Fund is investing its resources in building community collaborations where animal welfare organizations come together to develop successful models of lifesaving; in veterinary colleges to help shelter medicine become part of the veterinary curriculum; in private practice veterinarians to encourage greater participation in the animal welfare cause; and in the implementation of national strategies to collect and report shelter statistics. 

In July 2008 Maddie’s Fund awarded Dane County Humane Society (lead agency), Shelter from the Storm, and Dane County Friends of Ferals a first year grant of $297,000 to support increased adoptions and decreased euthanasia of shelter animals in Dane County.  This grant is the MADDIE’S^® PET RESCUE PROJECT IN DANE COUNTY.

A second grant, which also includes numerous private practice veterinary hospitals, was also awarded at that time. The goal of this project is to increase spaying and neutering efforts though out the community.  This grant is known as MADDIE’S^® SPAY/NEUTER PROJECT IN DANE COUNTY. Please visit our SNAP page for more information about spay/neuter services.

As adoption and spay/neuter goals are achieved, Maddie's Fund will provide animal welfare groups and private veterinarians with more than $900,000 to save the healthy and treatable shelter dogs and cats in Dane County over the next five years.

•  Strategic Plan

Definition of “Healthy & Treatable” animals

• Dane County Pet Evaluation Matrix

Progress as of the end of Year 1 (June 30, 2009)

• Maddie's Pet Rescue Project Annual Report
• Maddie's Spay-Neuter Project Annual Report

Who is Maddie?

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.