Maddie's Fund (www.maddiesfund.org) wants to help communities develop and expand adoption and spay/neuter programs so that within ten years all their healthy and treatable shelter dogs and cats will be guaranteed loving homes. Maddie’s Fund, The Pet Rescue Foundation is a family foundation funded by PeopleSoft founder Dave Duffield and his wife, Cheryl, to help create a no-kill nation. The first step is to develop programs that guarantee loving homes for all healthy shelter dogs and cats throughout the country. The next step will be to save the sick and injured pets in animal shelters nationwide. Maddie’s Fund is named after the family’s beloved Miniature Schnauzer who passed away in 1997.
Here are some of the community projects in which Maddie's Fund is providing financial support to rescue groups working with local animal control shelters, traditional shelters, and private practice veterinarians to end the killing of healthy and treatable shelter dogs and cats.
Maddie’s Pet Rescue Project
Maddie’s Pet Rescue Project is a coalition of three animal rescue organizations (T-Town P.A.W.S., the Humane Society of West Alabama, and the West Alabama Animal Shelter) and one traditional shelter (Tuscaloosa Metro Animal Shelter). Maddie’s Fund has awarded a seven-year, $2 million challenge grant to Tuscaloosa’s animal welfare groups and veterinarians.
Maddie’s Spay/Neuter Project
Maddie’s Spay/Neuter Project is administered by the Alabama Veterinary Medical Association (ALVMA). It will fund $800,000 for low-cost spay/neuter surgeries for pets of people who receive Medicaid assistance and who reside in Tuscaloosa County.
