2024-03-28T18:01:14Z 2023-12-31 990EZ 2023-01-01 815116263 MAD DOG INITIATIVE MADD 3522830121 245 PINNACLE SPRINGS RD GREENBRIER AR 72058 Kim Valenta Co-Founder, Director 3522830121 2024-03-28 2023 2023-04-26 12:10:37Z X X www.maddoginitiative.com X X 98648 X 98648 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 98648 0 0 0 0 0 0 77918 77918 20730 149 0 20879 149 20730 0 0 0 0 149 20730 0 0 149 20730 Charitable Native corridor reforestation: Purchase of seedlings for reforestation (1500 seedlings per hectare x 30 ha, $1 per seedling = $45,000). Salaries for local planters and seedling monitors (12 people per day x 190 days x $10 per person per day = $22800) 67800 67800 Long-term forest occupancy research. Three PhD students in 2023 sampled and analyzed data from national parks adjacent to spay-neuter clinics to assess invasive disease and AMR burden, and invasive species occupancy through camera trapping. 4187 4187 Spay-neuter vaccination clinics, June-July 2023. Purchase of medical equipment and expendables, salary for Malagasy veterinarians. Five local veterinarians and veterinary students gained clinic experience treating, spaying, neutering and vaccinating 207 cats and dogs living in and around protected areas in Madagascar. 5572 5572 77559 Dr Zach Farris Board member 2.00 0 0 0 Dr Kim Valenta CoFounder, director 15.00 0 0 0 Yan Jacques Volunteer coordinator, board member 1.00 0 0 0 false false false false false 0 false false 0 0 0 false 0 0 false AR Dr Kim Valenta 2906 SE 36 Lane Gainesville FL 32641 3522830121 true MA true MA false false false false false false false false false false NONE 0 NONE 0 false X 0 0 0 0 98648 98648 0 0 0 0 98648 98648 0 0 0 98648 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 98648 98648 1.00000 0.00000 0.00000 0.00000 X Part I, Line 16 Expenses for the 2023 tax year are as follows: Bank fees (specifically, wire transfer fees to cover wire transfers to Madagascar): $358.50 Equipment and expendables purchased in USA: While the organization purchases whatever it can in Madagascar to reduce the logistical difficulties associated with transferring required materials to Madagascar, several pieces of equipment and expendables are not available for purchase in Madagascar (e.g., DNA extraction kits, sterilized drapes for surgery). In 2023, MDI spent $4,187.58 on equipment, with the largest single purchase ($1,485.11) being Sherman Live Traps to live capture animals in Madagascar. All equipment and expendables purchased in the United States are transported to Madagascar for use in our programs there. Spay-neuter clinics: MDI runs free spay/neuter, and vaccination clinics for free-roaming dogs and cats living in and around some of Madagascar's most important and biodiverse protected areas to reduce the impact of invasive species on critically endangered wildlife. Spay-neuter clinic expendables are mainly purchased within Madagascar, and all veterinarians are Malagasy, or unpaid international volunteers. Native corridor reforestation: In June 2023, the first of several hundreds of thousands of native tree seedlings were planted as part of a large new project to reconnect two of Madagascar's flagship parks (Andasibe and Mantadia) with a forest corridor. In total, from June 2, 2023 to December 31, 2023, planters in Madagascar planted and monitored 45,000 native seedlings, at a cost to MDI of $1 per seedling (=$45,000). MDI also supported the livelihoods of local Malagasy subsistence hunter-gatherers by paying 12 members of the Betsimisarika tribe to plant 1500 seedlings per week, at a rate of $10 per day for 190 days. Part I, Line 8 Funds obtained are from Research and Conservation Grants (The Dr. Abigail Ross Foundation for Applied Conservation, LUSH, Lincoln Park Zoo and Seacology) and small private donations.