Community Collaborative Grant Guidelines

Maddie's Fund^® wants to help communities achieve no-kill status, whereby all their healthy and treatable shelter dogs and cats are guaranteed loving homes within ten years. To achieve this goal, Maddie's Fund intends to financially support community-wide collaborations of adoption guarantee organizations, animal control and traditional shelters, and private practice veterinarians, working together to provide an adoption guarantee for all their healthy shelter dogs and cats by the start of Year Five and to extend that guarantee to include all treatable shelter pets by the end of Year Ten. (For an explanation of these terms, please refer to the Animal Organization Categories and Health & Behavior Categories for Animal Shelters documents.)

If your community is interested in applying for a Community Collaborative Project Grant, we suggest you begin the application process with the Maddie's Fund Starter Grants.

NEW FEATURES IN REVISED GUIDELINES

• Maddie's Fund has increased the funding for the Adoption and Spay/Neuter programs of the community collaborative project.
• On a case-by-case basis, Maddie's Fund will consider animal control or traditional shelters for Lead Agency.
• The Lead Agency for the Spay/Neuter program can be a veterinary medical association, non-profit animal welfare organization, or a spay/neuter organization.
• In addition to private practice veterinary hospitals, non-profit and government clinics may now participate in the Spay/Neuter program.
• A sustainability requirement has been added.
• To increase the likelihood that funded projects will be able to achieve an adoption guarantee by Year 5, more emphasis is being placed on reducing healthy shelter deaths.
• Maddie's Fund is using new definitions in classifying shelter animals: adoptable, treatable and nonrehabilitatable have been replaced with healthy, treatable-manageable, treatable-rehabilitatable, and unhealthy & untreatable.

There are two programs within the Community Collaborative Project, Adoption Program and Spay/Neuter Program, which both must be applied for together.

Click here to download the complete Community Collaborative Project Grant Guidelines

Adoption Program Documents

• Adoption Application   
• Contact Information for Participating Groups   
• Sample Maddie Recognition Plan   

Shelter Reporting Forms

• Adoption Guarantee & Traditional Shelter Annual Form   
• Adoption Guarantee & Traditional Shelter Monthly Form   
• Animal Control & Community Annual Form   
• Animal Control & Community Monthly Form   
• Glossary of Terms 
• Animal Organization Categories 
• Health and Behavior Categories 

Spay Neuter Program Documents

• Spay Neuter Instructions   
• Spay Neuter Application   
• Sample Letter to Veterinarians Requesting Stats   
• Sample Baseline Year Reporting Form   
• Sample Baseline Year Report to MF