Congratulations on your recent grant - and thank you for the meaningful work you do every day.

This page is designed to support you alongside the information provided in your grant confirmation letter. As you share news about your grant, we invite you to help tell the story behind it. You can share this recognition through the communications channels that best reach your community, including social media, press releases, your website, donor wall, annual report, newsletter, promotional materials or other marketing communications, as appropriate. These acknowledgments help connect your community to the promise behind the grant and the collective impact we can create together.

Helpful Resources

• Use our suggested recognition language to help acknowledge your grant with clarity and consistency across specific communications.
• Download and share this PDF of Maddie's Story. You may print and frame it for your welcome area, share it with staff and volunteers, or include it at events to help bring the heart of this work to life.
• Download recognition logos in a variety of formats for use in approved grant communications.
• Use the Word document Press Release Template as a starting point when announcing your grant.

Press Releases and the About Maddie's Fund paragraph

Please use the Descriptor and About Maddie's Fund^® paragraph in press releases about your grant. The descriptor should follow the first mention of Maddie's Fund and the About Maddie's Fund paragraph at the end of the release/announcement. Please note that the first use of Maddie's Fund should have a superscripted registration mark after the "d" in Fund.

Descriptor to be used at the first mention of Maddie's Fund^® (for copy and paste):

Maddie's Fund^®, a national family foundation established by Dave and Cheryl Duffield to revolutionize the status and well-being of companion animals.

About Maddie's Fund paragraph (for copy and paste):

Dave and Cheryl Duffield established Maddie's Fund^®, their family foundation, in 1994. It is the fulfillment of a promise to their dog, Maddie, who provided them much joy over ten years and continues to inspire us today.

The Foundation has awarded over $313 million in grants toward increased community collaborations and live outcomes, pioneering shelter medicine education, establishing foster care as a standard across the U.S. and driving innovation in access to care. Maddie’s Fund proudly offers the industry a national voice, important funding opportunities for bold ideas, learning resources and access to collaborate and share innovative solutions.

The Foundation invests its resources in a commitment to keeping pets and people together, creating a safety net of care for animals in need, removing barriers and operating within a culture of inclusiveness and humility. All Thanks to Maddie.

Maddie’s Fund is part of The Duffield Foundation Family which also includes Liberty Dogs and Dave & Cheryl Duffield Foundation.

Contact Info for Review

Please send materials for review and approval as outlined in your grant confirmation letter to both contacts below. We are happy to help and welcome your questions at any point in the process.