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Spay/Neuter Grants: Up To $200,000 Over Two Years

(Alameda, CA- December 2006) Maddie's Fund^® is offering new spay/neuter grants for counties with Live Animal Release Rates of 40% or less – counties where the animal control, traditional and rescue shelters are euthanizing 60% or more of the total shelter population of dogs and cats.

Applicants must submit a proposal outlining a county spay/neuter program that targets problem areas which generate high shelter admissions of dogs or cats. The proposal must show how a maximum number of above baseline surgeries will be performed with grant funds provided.

Applicants will need to provide shelter statistics (using Maddie's^® Animal Statistics Table and definitions) from county animal control, traditional and rescue shelters to document their eligibility.
Counties must have a human population of 50,000 or more.
The lead agency can be a 501(c)3 animal welfare organization, a municipal animal control agency or a veterinary medical association.
Surgeries can be performed in non-profit spay/neuter clinics, governmental spay/neuter clinics or private veterinary hospitals.

Medical Equipment Grants

Maddie's Fund^® grants for medical equipment are now available to any adoption guarantee shelter* that is located in the U.S. and employs at least one full-time veterinarian. Grant size is determined by the impact the grant will have on saving the healthy and treatable shelter dogs and cats in the community.

Proposals should include a description and cost of the medical equipment to be purchased, the number of animals to be cared for with the equipment, and a general overview of the shelter's current medical program(s).

For more information about Maddie's^® Spay/Neuter or Medical Equipment grants, call 510-337-8989, e-mail grants@maddies.org, or go to http://www.maddies.org/grant/starter_grants.html.

* An adoption guarantee shelter saves all of the healthy and treatable animals under its care, with euthanasia reserved only for unhealthy & untreatable animals. To qualify for a Maddie's^® Medical Equipment grant, adoption guarantee shelters must agree to annually publish their shelter statistics using the Asilomar Accords Annual Animal Statistics Table, both in primary publications and on their website.

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