Grant Guidelines

Maddie's Fund^® is offering funding to U.S. Colleges of Veterinary Medicine for a Maddie's^® Shelter Medicine Teaching and Research Program that can include Pre-Clinical and Didactic Shelter Medicine Training, Shelter Medicine Externships, Shelter Medicine Continuing Education and Shelter Medicine Research.

Criteria:

• The proposed program must support the no-kill philosophy.
  
  
• The proposed program must help advance students' understanding of adoption guarantee shelter practices and methods through student education.
  
  
• All student externships must take place at suitable adoption guarantee shelter facilities.
  
  
• Research must be detailed in the proposal. Studies must aim to improve the health and well-being of shelter animals and demonstrate direct relevance to adoption guarantee shelter practices and methods.
  
  
• Studies must follow accepted scientific principles so that results are credible. No terminal research projects will be accepted, and all studies involving the use of live animals must be approved by the institution's Animal Care and Use Committee.
  
  
• Colleges awarded funding must honor Maddie's Fund's core values of honesty, integrity and mutual respect.
  
  

General information:

• The maximum grant amount is $50,000 per institution per year. The grant is potentially renewable annually for a total of three years, for up to $150,000 in overall funding.
  
  
• Indirect costs may not exceed 10%.
  
  
• Applicants must be faculty veterinarians. Applicants at the rank of Associate or Assistant Professor are preferred.
  
  
• All colleges receiving a grant for a Maddie's® Shelter Medicine Teaching and Research Program are required to name the overall program Maddie's^® Shelter Medicine Teaching and Research Program.
  
  
• All colleges receiving a grant for a Maddie's^® Shelter Medicine Teaching and Research Program are required to follow a recognition plan provided by Maddie's Fund.
  
  
• Copies of all research publications stemming from this project should be submitted to Maddie's Fund at the time of publication. Any and all publications and presentations arising from the research are required to recognize Maddie's Fund.
  
  
• Reporting requirements include quarterly verbal updates and an annual written progress report. Continued funding is contingent upon satisfactory progress.
  
  
• There is no deadline for grant submission.
  
  
• To apply for a Maddie's^® Shelter Medicine Teaching and Research Program grant, submit a proposal with all the items listed below to Dr. Laurie Peek via e-mail (info@maddiesfund.org) or snail mail (Maddie's Fund, 2223 Santa Clara Avenue, Suite B, Alameda, CA 94501).
  
  

Each copy of the proposal must include:

1. A cover page that clearly articulates how the program will support the no-kill philosophy and help advance adoption guarantee shelter practices and methods.
   
   
2. Descriptions of current level of involvement by the college with area animal shelters and of any existing teaching, service or research that may overlap with the proposal.
   
   
3. Full description of the program and all of its components.
   
   
4. Description of naming opportunities, including naming of the overall program Maddie's^® Shelter Medicine Teaching and Research Program.
   
   
5. Budget for the program.
   
   
6. Curriculum vitae of the Program Coordinator.