Maddie's® Shelter Medicine Program at Cornell
About Maddie's Fund
Maddie's Fund, The Pet Rescue Foundation, is a family foundation endowed through the generosity of Cheryl and Dave Duffield, PeopleSoft Founder and Board Chairman. The foundation is helping to fund the creation of a no-kill nation. The first step is to help create programs that guarantee loving homes for all healthy (adoptable) shelter dogs and cats throughout the country. The next step will be to save sick and injured pets in animal shelters nationwide.
Maddie's Fund is named after the Duffield's beloved Miniature Schnauzer. The foundation makes good on a promise the family made to Maddie to give back to her kind in dollars that which Maddie gave to them in friendship and love. Maddie passed away in 1997, but thanks to this one little dog, millions of dogs and cats throughout the country will be given a better life.
In June 2004, Maddie's Fund awarded Cornell University's Maddie's Shelter Medicine Program a one year grant of $250,000 to provide clinical rotations and classes, new research, continuing education and resident training for veterinarians and veterinary students. In 2005, an additional grant of $1.25 million was given to continue the program for a total of six years.