Does every animal group in the target area have to be included in the collaboration?
A. Maddie’s Fund is trying to build community-wide safety nets of care for the healthy (adoptable) animals who are abandoned in our nation’s shelters. Our focus therefore, is on building broad based coalitions within communities that include private practice veterinarians, animal control agencies, traditional shelters, rescue groups and organizations. In order to get a grant from Maddie’s Fund, some degree of collaboration must be in place but this will vary from community to community. Collaborations need not be 100% inclusive. For example, if there are 10 animal groups in a given community, all 10 do not have to be working together to get a Maddie’s Fund grant. But as a bare minimum, the collaboration must include an adoption guarantee agency (to act as lead agency and insure over baseline adoptions), all animal control and traditional shelters operating in the community, and private practice veterinarians.
Related Questions
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- What happens if the target animal penetrates an area that did not require repair in the initial service?
- Does every animal group in the target area have to be included in the collaboration?
