Shih Tzu & Toy Breed Rescue and Adoption
SSTR is a 501(c)3 Non-Profit, ALL volunteer charity organization saving lives in Alabama and
surrounding states.  SSTR is dedicated to rescuing and rehoming of shih tuz and other toy breeds.
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PeopleSoft and Workday Founder, Dave Duffield and his wife, Cheryl, created Maddie's Fund. The Foundation makes good
on a promise the Duffields made to their beloved Miniature Schnauzer, Maddie, to give back to her kind in dollars that which
Maddie gave to them in companionship and love. Maddie passed away in 1997, but thanks to this one little dog, abandoned
shelter animals have new opportunities to find loving homes in which they, too, may share in the joy and love that Dave and
Cheryl enjoyed with Maddie.

Maddie's Fund supports collaborative efforts in which entire cities and counties pool their talents and resources to build a
safety net of care for the community's dogs and cats. The foundation awards millions of dollars through multi-year grants to
animal welfare coalitions to end the killing of healthy and treatable shelter dogs and cats community-wide. Funded projects
must produce an immediate and measurable increase in adoptions and reduction in shelter deaths to demonstrate progress
towards the goal. Starter Grants for gathering shelter statistics and writing business plans are available as precursors to
community collaborative grants.

Maddie's Fund also looks to the veterinary community to help achieve the no-kill nation goal. Private practice veterinarians
are encouraged to participate in Maddie-supported low-income spay/neuter programs to help reduce the numbers of
unwanted pets entering animal shelters.

In addition, Maddie's Fund offers grants to colleges of veterinary medicine to establish Shelter Medicine Programs so that the
specialized knowledge and skills of these institutions' faculty and students can be incorporated into the effort to save all
healthy and treatable shelter pets nationwide.

Maddie's Fund provides special grants to selected leaders who have demonstrated the ability to create change and to save
lives; to pilot programs that promise new lifesaving methods; to spay/neuter programs that target problem populations; to
organizations and communities that are leading the way in achieving lifesaving goals; and to adoption guarantee shelters that
are interested in obtaining new medical equipment.

Grantmaking efforts will continue to focus on organizations that honor the foundation's core values of honesty, integrity and
mutual respect.
The Maddie's Fund® mission is to revolutionize the status and wellbeing of companion animals.

Maddie's Fund®, the Pet Rescue Foundation (www.maddiesfund.org), is a family foundation established in
1999 to help fund the creation of a no-kill nation. The first step is to help create programs that guarantee
loving homes for all healthy shelter dogs and cats throughout the country. The next step is to save the
sick, injured and poorly behaved pets in animal shelters nationwide.