The Maddie's Fund^® mission is to revolutionize the status and well-being of companion animals.

Maddie's Fund, the Pet Rescue Foundation, is a family foundation established in 1999 to help fund the creation of a no-kill nation. Since its inception, Maddie's Fund has awarded animal welfare organizations and universities $71.6 million to save dog and cat lives.

PeopleSoft and Workday Founder, Dave Duffield, and his wife, Cheryl, created Maddie's Fund in 1999. The foundation makes good on a promise the Duffields made to their beloved Miniature Schnauzer, Maddie, to give back 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 aims to create a no-kill nation where all healthy and treatable shelter dogs and cats are guaranteed a loving home. To achieve this goal, Maddie's Fund is investing its resources in:

• community collaborations where animal welfare organizations come together to develop successful models of lifesaving
• veterinary colleges to help shelter medicine become part of the veterinary curriculum
• private practice veterinarians to encourage greater participation in the animal welfare cause
• the implementation of national strategies to collect and report shelter statistics

Maddie's Pet Rescue Project in Tuscaloosa County, Alabama

Project Period: April 1, 2005 - March 31, 2010

Grant/Coalition Lead Agency: T-Town PAWS

Animal Control Coalition Partner: Tuscaloosa Metro Animal Shelter

Project Coalition Partners: Alabamians Defending Animal Rights & Humane Society of West Alabama

Project Goal: Lead agency and coalition partners work together to increase adoptions and work in tandem with Maddie's^® Spay/Neuter Project, a Maddie's Fund initiative with the Alabama Veterinary Medical Association, to save healthy and treatable shelter dogs and cats in Tuscaloosa County, Alabama.

Maddie's Adoption Room: T-Town PAWS, as lead agency, operated Maddie's Adoption Room (MAR) in Pet Supplies Plus.  The room was an important venue for pet adoptions throughout the project.