Our Mission
To create and deliver community humane education programs and promote animal welfare by supporting the rescue, rehabilitation, and rehoming of abused and abandoned dogs.
Our Vision
Life-long healthy relationships between dogs and people.
Our Programs
Grant-Making:
The Millan Foundation provides financial support to assist non-profit animal shelters and organizations engaged in the rescuing, rehabilitation, and re-homing of abused and abandoned dogs. The Foundation prioritizes funding on spaying and neutering programs to help reduce or eliminate dog overpopulation.
Community Services:
The Millan Foundation provides financial support to assist non-profit animal shelters and organizations engaged in the rescuing, rehabilitation, and re-homing of abused and abandoned dogs. The Foundation prioritizes funding on spaying and neutering programs to help reduce or eliminate dog overpopulation.
Shelter Stars, the Millan Foundation’s animal shelter affiliation program, promotes positive, healthy relationships between families and the dogs they adopt from re-homing organizations across the country. Currently, Shelter Stars partners are distributing copies of "People Training for Dogs" (the most popular volume in Cesar Millan’s "Mastering Leadership" DVD series) free of charge to families that adopt shelter dogs.
- "Spay & Neuter is Nothing to Whisper About" is the Millan Foundation’s public service campaign that includes television commercials, full color posters, and reproducible ads featuring messages from the “Dog Whisperer” himself to promote the importance of spaying and neutering dogs to curb overpopulation
- The Mutt-i-grees Curriculum, made possible by the Millan Foundation, is a collaboration with North Shore Animal League and Yale University’s "School of the 21st Century" The curriculum is an innovative approach to humane education, and embraces learning within the context of the emerging area of emotional intelligence and social skills. The Millan Foundation wishes to generate public and media attention on the plight of dogs and cats awaiting adoption in shelters and enhance the status and desirability of these animals, most of which are mixed breed "Mutt-i-grees." Students will learn essential skills 3/4 such as caring for others, showing empathy and respect, building relationships and acting ethically and responsibly 3/4 and how those apply in their interactions with peers, adults and animals. The first of the curriculum’s four phases focuses on preschool and the primary grades and starts in September, 2009.
