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Your Impact Fund

Turn your passion for assistance dog teams and love for dogs into a permanent source of joy. Empower meaningful improvements and enjoy the impact you made possible, forever after.

The new way of giving

Normally, if you want to know what really happens with your donation, you’ll have to start your own foundation. Starting your impact fund at the Assistance Dog Foundation, in contrast, gives you the same transparency and charitable tax-deduction. However, all paperwork, legal requirements, administration, and continuation into the future are managed for you. You simply assign your funds to any of our many programs, and see the impact unfold.

Your impact portfolio

Your Impact Portfolio tracks what’s done in your name, down to the last cent. Simply sit back and enjoy inspiring updates, forever after. Or, if you prefer, we will send you postal updates at regular intervals.

Launch your Impact Fund

At Assistance Dog Foundation, we offer the first universally valid, independent certification for assistance dog teams. This ensures that your funds support qualified teams exclusively.

Our work is rooted in deep respect for both handler and dog. Reliable, meaningful progress is safeguarded by external quality assurance.

3 steps to your Impact Fund

1 – Launch your Impact Fund(s)

Creating your own Impact Fund just takes minutes online. We also happily assist you in making your vision a reality.
Simply choose the impact closest to your heart. Join us for small, tangible steps or invest in our groundbreaking initiatives. Some suggestions are described on the right.

2 – Impact with quality assurance built in

All supported assistance dog teams are independently vetted through our ISO-style certification. Your funds advance the future of assistance dog partnerships and safeguard team welfare.

3 – Full transparency and gratification

Your Impact Portfolio is your personal dashboard of Good. Witness your Fund(s) at work! Celebrate our joint successes each step of the way. Enjoy the difference you made, anyday, anytime, by reviewing your results.

Launch your Impact Fund
Protect an assistance dog with health insurance

We strive to establish a group policy to give strong medical coverage to qualified assistance dogs.
Cost per dog/year: € 720.

Subsidize team certification

Acceptance starts with independent, standard-based certification. This global acceptance comes with a price tag.
Subsidize a certification (depending on need): € 300-800.

Sponsor healthy dog food

If income is limited, self-financed teams may struggle to provide optimal-quality food for their dogs. Yet assistance dogs deserve the best nutrition and a healthy treat every once in a while.
Cost per dog/year: € 660.

Legal fund to boost access rights

Help us establish clear legal precedents, so certified teams enjoy trouble-free access, everywhere.
Cost/court case: € 1,000-5,000 (judgments replenish the Fund).

Care for retired dogs

No dog should be left unprotected if misfortune strikes or the handler cannot care for it in old age.
Cost per dog/year: € 2400 to 7500 (depending on situation).

Public outreach and education

Let’s replicate three initiatives that have proven their value in the past: (1) Creating good info materials, (2) national campaigns and (3) media outreach.
Costs: from € 5 per info mailing to hundredthousands for campaigns.

Development of a global diploma for service providers

We are working towards an international professional development path for assistance dog professionals, with and without disabilities, along with a globally accepted diploma.
Let’s meet and discuss.

Create Assistance Dog Foundation’s community home

Join our long-term vision for a place where interested parties get unbiased information, and assistance dog teams and professionals can come for continuing education.
Let’s meet and ways you may get involved .

Other

Is there an impact important to you that is not mentioned?
Let’s meet and discuss.

Join existing Impact Funds

Launching and naming your own Impact Fund starts at a minimum contribution of EUR 10,000.

There is no minimum amount required for contributing to an existing fund.
For confidentiality reasons, you will only receive updates on how your donation was used.

Angel Fund I

What it supports:

Health insurance for dogs

Supports health care and well-being for self-financed, certified assistance dogs in Germany.

Contribute to this fund

Angel Fund II

What it supports:

Independent certification

Subsidizes the costs of independent certification for self-financed assistance dog teams in Germany.

Contribute to this fund

Angel Fund III

What it supports:

Next assistance dog

Supports the next assistance dog for a specific qualified person known to the funder (private fund).

Start your own fund

Support Assistance Dog Foundation through these Funds:

Start-up Fund

What it supports:

Development costs

Supports start-up costs of our programs: our certification scheme and the setup of certification, register, and knowledge base.

Contribute to this fund

Fundraising Fund

What it supports:

Turn € 1 into € 5

It is expensive to reach future supporters. This is the most effective investment to help us do more good, faster. Multiply your impact fivefold!

Contribute to this fund

Sustainer Fund

What it supports:

Ongoing operational costs

From rent to salaries — every day expenses need to be paid, too. If you like the direct giving concept, please help us keep the lights on.

Contribute to this fund
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Be a part of our vision - via direct giving Impact Fund or a donation.

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Assistance Dog Fdn., The Hague Humanity Hub, Fluwelen Burgwal 58, 2511 CJ The Hague, Netherlands
While our phone number is being set up, please contact us here or email us: [email protected]

Assistance Dog Foundation is a stichting with charitable mission. We are currently applying for recognition of our nonprofit status as Algemeen Nut Beogende Instelling (ANBI) by the Dutch Tax and Customs Administration.
 

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