Mayor's Alliance for NYC's Animals (New York)

Jane Hoffman. Jane Hoffman helped found the Mayor's Alliance for NYC's Animals in 2002 and has served as president and chair of the board of directors ever since. The Mayor’s Alliance was created to apply creative, targeted solutions to NYC’s homeless animal crisis. Working pursuant to a 10-Year Strategic Plan (2005-2014), and with 150+ rescue groups and shelters that now participate in… See full bio.

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Story: The Mayor's Alliance for NYC's Animals, Inc., founded in 2002 and powered by Maddie's Fund, The Pet Rescue Foundation, with support from the ASPCA, is a coalition of more than 150 animal rescue groups and shelters working with Animal Care & Control of NYC (AC&C) to end the killing of healthy and treatable cats and dogs at AC&C shelters. To achieve that goal, the Alliance, a 501(c)(3) not-for-profit corporation, helps its Alliance Participating Organizations (APOs) work to their highest potential to increase pet adoptions and spay/neuter rates, with the goal of transforming New York City into a no-kill community by 2015.

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The Mayor's Alliance for NYC's Animals, Inc. is a coalition of more than 150 animal organizations working to end the killing of healthy and treatable cats and dogs at Animal Care and Control shelters. This effort to work together to decrease euthanasia and increase adoption rates has been very successful.
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Jane Hoffman helped found the Mayor's Alliance for NYC's Animals in 2002 and has served as president and chair of the board of directors ever since. The Mayor’s Alliance was created to apply creative, targeted solutions to NYC’s homeless animal crisis. Working pursuant to a 10-Year Strategic Plan (2005-2014), and with 150+ rescue groups and shelters that now participate in the Alliance (ranging from the ASCPA, a founding supporter, to small neighborhood-based rescue groups), we have succeeded in reducing euthanasia at our shelters from 74% of intake to 32.5%. Hoffman is an attorney, formerly with Simpson Thacher and Bartlett, and was in private practice specializing in taxation, executive compensation and estate planning. She was also a senior consultant at Handy Associates, a management consulting firm, working on mergers and acquisitions. In addition to her commitment to the Mayor’s Alliance, Hoffman also is a Founding Member and former Chair of the New York City Bar Association’s Committee on Legal Issues Pertaining to Animals, the first of its kind in the United States. In August of 2007, Hoffman received the inaugural Excellence in the Advancement of Animal Law Award from the American Bar Association (ABA) TIPS section at the ABA Annual Conference held in San Francisco. Hoffman continues to speak extensively around the country on the public/private partnership as a replicable model for bringing together animal welfare groups to develop creative solutions to companion animal overpopulation and animal control issues. She is particularly proud of three major Alliance Initiatives: the Picasso Veterinary Fund, which pays for shelter animal health care so that they needn't be euthanized due to treatable injuries or illnesses, the Wheels of Hope Transport Program, which addresses a need identified by the strategic plan to get animals out of crowded city shelters quickly and safely, and the Feral Cat Initiative, which promotes “trap, neuter and return” as the only efficient and humane way to control the outdoor cat population. A native New Yorker, she has a J.D. from Brooklyn Law School, an M.L.S. from Long Island University and a B.A. from Boston College.

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