Company Profile
Maddie's Fund
Company Overview
Maddie's Fund® (www.maddiesfund.org) is a family foundation endowed by the founder of Workday® and PeopleSoft, Dave Duffield and his wife, Cheryl. Maddie's Fund is helping to achieve and sustain a no-kill nation by providing solutions to the most challenging issues facing the animal welfare community through the synergistic work of Maddie's Grant Giving, Maddie's Institute (research and education) and Maddie's Center (hands-on animal care).
Maddie’s Fund® intends to open Maddie’s Center, at 4280 Hacienda Boulevard in Pleasanton, California, in 2015. The Center’s focus will be on finding homes for dogs and cats with treatable medical and behavioral conditions. The Center will obtain pets for adoption from other organizations, assess them, optimize their health and find new homes. After pets have been assessed, the Center will rely heavily on foster homes for these pets, so that they can live in companionship with people while receiving treatment and/or awaiting adoption. Our initial service area will be Alameda and Contra Costa Counties then spreading out to Northern California and ultimately to the entire United States.
Maddie’s Fund is developing a foster-based adoption program to build a foundation for Maddie’s Center programs and a network of foster homes for treatable pets before the Center’s opening date. This new foster program will provide any needed nutritional, medical or behavioral treatment, as well as comfort and quality care to animals obtained from municipal shelters. The program will provide preventative, standard and integrative veterinary medicine for individual pets.
Company History
About Us
The Maddie's Fund® mission is to revolutionize the status and well-being of companion animals.
Maddie's Fund is named after the family's beloved Miniature Schnauzer who passed away in 1997.
Maddie's® Grant Giving
Maddie's Fund grants are designed to help build and sustain a no-kill nation so that shelter dogs and cats can be guaranteed a loving home. The foundation provides strategic funding to collaborative organizations and communities that are leading the way in saving healthy and treatable shelter dogs and cats through innovative marketing, adoption, customer service, and behavioral and medical programs. Grants are also awarded to establish shelter medicine programs at colleges of veterinary medicine so the specialized knowledge and skills of faculty and students can be incorporated in the effort to save all healthy and treatable shelter dogs and cats nationwide.
Maddie's Center
Maddie's Center, opening its doors in 2015, will offer a unique approach to homeless animal care, one in which each and every dog and cat will be treated as an individual family member rather than as part of a "herd". The tranquil environment will be more like a home than an institution to reflect the Center's integrative wellness approach to care. Center staff will pioneer new advances in shelter medicine, nutrition, housing and technology adapted for animal care, making the Center a place to explore new protocols and remedies to make it easier and less costly to treat and place homeless dogs and cats who are sick, injured or poorly behaved.
Maddie's Institute
Maddie's Institute is the academic division of Maddie's Fund, providing the most innovative animal welfare information, research and trends to shelter staff, veterinarians, rescue groups and community members to increase the lifesaving of homeless dogs and cats.
As the Institute grows and evolves, it will have the personnel, facility and resources to tackle some of the most challenging problems facing the animal welfare community. Using rigorous academic standards and university-caliber staff, the Institute will test current practices and research new approaches for housing, nutrition, shelter medicine and technology adapted for animal care. Findings will be disseminated to animal welfare stake-holders through conferences, classes, externships, internships, workshops and distance learning. The Institute will also provide executive leadership training for individuals and thought leaders with a passion for animal welfare. Special programs will be offered to regional animal welfare staff, volunteers and foster caregivers as well as to local area youth (K through college) and the general public.
Benefits
Deferred Compensation Plan