From ANIMAL PEOPLE, March 1999:

ALAMEDA, Calif.––Former San
Francisco SPCA president Richard Avanzino
on February 25 released grant application
guidelines for the Duffield Family Foundation,
doing business as Maddie’s Fund.
Like Maddie’s Adoption Center, at
the SF/SPCA, Maddie’s Fund exists in
memory of Maddie, the late beloved dog of
computer software magnates Dave and
Cheryl Duffield. Maddie’s Fund was created
with a $200 million endowment for the
specific purpose of helping communities
across the U.S. achieve no-kill control of dog
and cat populations––as San Francisco did
during Avanzino’s tenure at the SF/SPCA.

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, March 1999:

CHICAGO––Ripped recently on the
Internet and in widely distributed open letters
by two ex-employees, Chicago Animal
Rights Coalition founder Steve Hindi i n
January 1999 invited ANIMAL PEOPLE t o
“investigate my dirty laundry,” but we didn’t
find much. We had in fact already received the
complaints, from the apparent originator in
one instance, anonymously in another.
Dug Hanbicki, hired in mid-1997
as a business manager but titled “executive
director,” expressed unhappiness at having to
take direction from Hindi––who had allowed
her to change the name of the organization to
Showing Animals Respect and Kindness,
and to add people of her choice to the board of
directors. Hanbicki resigned on November 9.

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, March 1999:

Revenue Canada has compelled
The Fur-Bearers, incorporated in 1953 as
the Association for the Protection of FurBearing
Animals, to yield the registered
charitable status it has held for 45 years, on
grounds that in advocating a cause which
could require a change in law, it is a political
organization, not a charity. Now in the
process of reincorporating, to separate
“political” activity from “charity,” The FurBearers
will retain nonprofit status, but
donations will no longer be tax-deductible.

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