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Maddie's Fund® Community Grants Program
Introduction (Revised February 2007)
Do you qualify for a Maddie's Fund community grant?
Maddie's Fund wants to help communities develop and expand adoption and spay/neuter programs so that within five years all their healthy shelter dogs and cats will be guaranteed loving homes, and to then expand that guarantee to treatable shelter dogs and cats in the next five years. To achieve this goal, Maddie's Fund intends to financially support adoption guarantee 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.
In order to accomplish this task, Maddie's Fund has adopted a funding strategy different from most other foundations:
THE FOCUS is narrow. The only objectives are: 1) to increase the placements of shelter dogs and cats, 2) to reduce the deaths of shelter dogs and cats, and 3) to dramatically increase the number of spay/neuter surgeries.
THE DOLLARS per project are large. The funding period per project is usually seven years. The complete project length is generally ten years.
RESULTS MUST be immediate, measurable and meet established targets for continued funding.
Please review the following Key Points and the Guidelines for Community Grants. If you meet the criteria and wish to proceed, fill out and submit our Preliminary Application Form.
KEY POINTS
• Applicants must be animal welfare groups or veterinary medical associations that operate within the United States and are classified by the IRS as tax exempt.
Animal welfare groups that seek funding must provide comprehensive medical and behavioral care to all healthy and treatable animals under their care and guarantee to find these animals loving homes. On a case-by-case basis, Maddie's Fund will consider animal control or a traditional shelter as lead agency.
• Projects must be collaborative and include as a minimum the participation of all animal control and traditional shelters in the target community. They must also include both an adoption component and a spay/neuter component.
The lead agency for the adoption component should be an adoption guarantee organization with an established adoption track record. On a case by case basis, Maddie's Fund will consider an animal control agency or a traditional shelter as the lead agency for the adoption component. The lead agency for the spay/neuter component can be a city, county, regional or state VMA, a spay/neuter organization, or a non-profit/government spay/neuter clinic.
• For projects to qualify for funding consideration, the annual number of dogs and cats sheltered in the target community (i.e., the number of live animals handled) by all the groups participating in the project must be at least two thousand (2,000).
• Successful projects must demonstrate substantial participation by private practice veterinarians in the spay/neuter component.
• Organizations must be able to reach beyond their current levels of achievement to save additional animals, prevent more deaths and provide more spay/neuter surgeries.
• Grants can be used to expand pre-existing programs, initiate new services, fund new staff positions, and underwrite promotional adoption campaigns.
MADDIE'S FUND WILL NOT AWARD GRANTS UNDER COMMUNITY GUIDELINES:
TO build a new facility.
TO individuals.
TO support endowment campaigns, deficit or emergency funding, research, scholarships, publications, films, videos, special events, or operating budgets of single organizations.
TO projects for animals other than dogs and cats.
TO agencies operating outside of the United States.
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