About Us
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
In Fiscal Year 2007-08, Maddie's Fund awarded $14.5 million through 298 grants in 41 states and the District of Columbia.
Maddie's Fund Daylong Workshop at Animal Care EXPO 2009
