(ALAMEDA, CA –July, 2002) Maddie’s Fund, the $240 Million foundation named after a Miniature Schnauzer and funded by a Silicon Valley billionaire, has re-designed its website, adding more user friendly features to help browsers find their way through the 200 page site.
Maddie’s Fund is a family foundation endowed through the generosity of Cheryl and Dave Duffield, PeopleSoft Founder and Board Chairman. The Maddie’s Fund website supports the Foundation’s goal of helping to build a no-kill nation by:
- offering ways for the general public to help animals, both through charitable giving and through actual hands-on work with dogs and cats
- giving animal lovers a place to read about the communities, individuals, rescue groups and veterinarians who are saving animal lives every day
- providing an ever-expanding library of successful life-saving programs and strategies
- publishing articles and essays by animal welfare leaders
- providing guidelines and applications for Maddie’s Fund grants
The Maddie’s Fund website also offers a free monthly e-mail newsletter and discussion forums.
Maddie’s Fund, the Pet Rescue Foundation, is a family foundation helping to fund the creation of a no-kill nation. The first step is to help create programs that guarantee loving homes for all adoptable (healthy) shelter dogs and cats. The next step will be to save the sick and injured pets in animal shelter nationwide. Maddie’s Fund is named after the family’s beloved Miniature Schnauzer who passed away in 1997.
