Animal Advocacy and Plant-Based Nutrition Grantees

  • Litigation is a tool for change. Animal welfare laws are too often ignored. That’s why Advancing Law For Animals creates novel pathways to enforce existing laws through innovative legal strategies. It specializes in issues impacting animals exploited in industrial agriculture and experimentation.

  • The American College of Lifestyle Medicine is the medical society for those dedicated to evidence-based Lifestyle Medicine as the foundation of health care transformation, with a plant-predominant dietary lifestyle prescription being central to sustainable health, sustainable health care and a sustainable world—as all are inextricably connected.

  • Animal Advocacy Careers seeks to address the career and talent bottlenecks in the animal advocacy movement, especially the farmed animal movement.

  • Animal Charity Evaluators is dedicated to finding and advocating highly effective opportunities for improving the lives of animals.

    It looks to assist compassionate volunteers, donors, and professionals in making informed animals. It does this through researching and recommending high-impact interventions to activists and charities.

  • Animal Defense Partnership (ADP) protects animals by providing free legal services to nonprofits that advocate for animals and plant-based diet change.

  • Animal Justice is Canada’s only national animal law advocacy organization. They believe that animals need lawyers, and their legal team works to protect animals from cruelty and neglect. Canada has some of the worst animal protection laws in the western world, and their mission is to overhaul the legal system to better reflect Canada’s values of compassion and justice for all.

  • The Animal Law Foundation is a collective of lawyers and those interested in animal protection, with the aim of ensuring a robust legal framework for animals.

    It will undertake legal research, provide information and education on animal law and where necessary bring legal challenges to ensure that animal law is being interpreted and applied as intended.

  • Animal Outlook works to build a better tomorrow for all animals. It strategically challenges the status quo of animal agribusiness through undercover investigations, legal advocacy, corporate and food system reform, and empowering everyone to choose vegan.

  • Animal Partisan uses the legal system to end the suffering of animals in slaughterhouses, farms, and laboratories by discovering, exposing, and challenging unlawful conduct in all its forms.

  • Animal Rights Initiative is successfully working to prevent Octopus Farming.

  • Animal Think Tank is building a powerful and broad-based social movement for animal freedom in the UK. It’s working towards a world where all animals have a right to life, liberty and security of person protected in law and respected by society.

  • The AVA Summit is a conference series dedicated to creating a world in which animals are taken out of the food system and other human uses by inspiring advocates and providing them with learning and networking opportunities to be more impactful .

  • Based in Spain, Animal Welfare Observatory is dedicated to improving the living conditions of farmed animals who are suffering under the lowest standards of animal welfare. It works with companies, institutions, and interest groups, with the intention of impacting the largest possible number of animals.

  • A.U.M. Films and Media's mission is to effectively and efficiently represent a harmonious voice for all life on this planet, through all forms of media. Included among their documentaries are "What The Health," "Cowspiracy," and "Running For Good." A.U.M. works to create a movement towards compassionate co-existence.

  • Balanced believes a healthier future is possible which is why it’s fighting for a food system that puts the health of families first.

  • Beyond Carnism works to expose and transform carnism (the invisible belief system that conditions people to eat certain animals), through educational outreach about the psychology of human and animal oppression and through trainings via our Center for Effective Vegan Advocacy (CEVA).

  • Black Women for Wellness is committed to healing, educating, inspiring, and supporting Black women, so that they may tap into their personal power to enhance and improve their health and well being.

  • Taddy Blecher is one of a handful of exceptional individuals who are so engaged and impactful with their global activism that the Foundation provides some support.

  • The Brazilian Vegetarian Society promotes vegetarian food as an ethical, healthy, sustainable and socially just choice through campaigns, programs, agreements, events, research and activism.

  • Collective Fashion Justice’s mission is to illuminate the interlinked injustices in fashion supply chains that harm the planet, and human and non-human animals. By uprooting their intertwined harm, it works to create a total ethics fashion system.

  • Compassion USA campaigns peacefully to end all factory farming practices. It believes that the biggest cause of cruelty on the planet deserves a focused, specialized approach – so it is relentlessly focused on ending factory farming.

  • Essere Animali operates in Italy where it works to improve animal welfare standards through undercover investigations, corporate campaigns, legal actions, and media outreach. It works to influence individuals to decrease their consumption of animal products through pledge programs, leafleting, social media, online ads, and by running an institutional campaign to reduce the consumption of animal products.

  • Faunalytics is a U.S.-based organization working to connect animal advocates with information relevant to advocacy. This mostly involves cоnducting and publishing independent research, working directly with partner organizations on various research projects, and promoting existing research and data for individual advocates through their website’s content library.

  • Food Empowerment Project is a U.S.-based vegan food justice organization that works to reduce the injustices inflicted by the food system upon animals, humans & the environment.

  • To sustainably feed the world into the future and improve public health, we must diversify our protein supply with healthier, greener options, like plant-based proteins and meat grown from cells. By supporting Australia and New Zealand to invest in this emerging sector, we can become leaders in protein innovation for the Asia Pacific region, home to 60% of the world’s population and where meat consumption is set to double in coming decades.

  • Friends of the Earth and their network of grassroots groups in 77 countries fight to create a more healthy, just world. Its campaigns focus on clean energy and solutions to global warming, protecting people from toxic and new, potentially harmful technologies, and promoting smarter, low-pollution transportation alternatives.

  • Greener by Default makes plant-based food the default, while giving diners the choice to opt into meat/dairy. This strategy allows institutions to meet carbon reduction goals, and save on food costs; improve health and inclusivity all while preserving freedom of choice.

  • Gwenna Hunter is one of a handful of exceptional individuals who are so engaged and impactful with their global activism that the Foundation provides some support.

  • Humánny Pokrok operates in Slovakia to improve the welfare standards of farmed animals by running corporate campaigns and engaging in government outreach and lobbying. It also works to strengthen the animal advocacy movement through investigations and capacity-building activities, such as running a vegan festival and training activists.

  • LEAD’s mission is to accelerate progress and create systemic change for farmed animals by empowering advocates and organizations through training and professional development. During its inaugural 2022 program, LEAD provided a free professional development and training workshop for farmed animal advocates, as well as creating a free mentorship program.

  • Made in Hackney’s mission is to tackle health inequalities, food access, the climate crisis and bring communities together using the power of plants. It provides emergency plant-based meals for households and provides critical food education.

  • Material Innovation Initiative exists to make the sustainable option, the easy option. It fast-tracks this process by accelerating the development of next-gen materials that are high-performance, animal-free, and more sustainable for the fashion, automotive, and home goods industries.

  • Mercy For Animals is an international animal protection charity dedicated to preventing cruelty to farmed animals and promoting compassionate food choices and policies. Founded in 1999, MFA is the world’s leading nonprofit focused exclusively on ending factory farming.

  • The Middle East Vegan Society is an organisation that focuses on reducing and eliminating the suffering caused on other animals as well as reducing our impact on the environment with our day to day choices.

    Its mission is to both accelerate and document the disruptive growth of veganism worldwide and in the MENA region (Middle East & North Africa), an area that goes largely unnoticed, by working on projects, campaigns and social media content.

  • NATION EARTH is an independent production company overseen by filmmaker Shaun Monson.

  • New Roots Institute inspires and empowers individuals and institutions to create a more just, compassionate, and sustainable food system.

  • The Nonhuman Rights Project is an American animal rights nonprofit organization seeking to change the legal status of at least some nonhuman animals from that of property to that of persons, with a goal of securing rights to bodily liberty and bodily integrity.

  • One Protest seeks to create a roadmap to help activists make lasting change within and beyond their communities. By aiding in strategic planning, design/marketing consulting, and protest planning, it empowers others to be more effective in their campaigns.

  • The Open Wing Alliance brings member organizations together to create a unified front in our campaign to free egg-laying hens from cages. It shares campaign strategies, tactics and resources around the world in the march toward our shared objective.

  • Our Hen House produces weekly episodes of the Our Hen House podcast and monthly episodes of the Animal Law Podcast, each highlighting the leading voices of the vegan and animal advocacy movements with the goal of changing the world for animals. Co-founded and co-hosted by long-time activists Jasmin Singer and Mariann Sullivan, Our Hen House is celebrating over a decade of work in the animal rights movement and is heard by people all over the globe.

  • Our Honor’s goal is to create an organized network of veterinary professionals who are able to formally challenge unethical institutionalized systems and amplify the voices of those who have been marginalized.

  • PAN aims to raise awareness among health professionals, the general public and policymakers about the role of nutrition in promoting good health and preventing and treating disease, while also providing tools for making positive dietary changes. Serving as a global umbrella organization, PAN will encourage the growth of national PAN branches in countries around the world.

  • PCRM is leading a revolution in medicine - putting a new focus on health and compassion. The Greenbaum Foundation supports PCRM’s plant-based nutrition education in China, led by Jia Xu, Ph.D., who directly reaches more than 30,000 people in China each year through lectures and events.

  • Plant Dining Partnerships provides resources to increase plant-based food options throughout foodservice industries in all communities, emphasizing food swamps, highlighting competitive price, taste and convenience opportunities.

  • Plant Futures Initiative is working to accelerate the transition to a plant-centric food system by ensuring students become ethical leaders, systems thinkers and effective advocates for a plant-centric future.

  • PMRI is a non-profit research institute investigating the effects of diet and lifestyle choices on health & disease.

  • Public Justice’s Food Project takes a multifaceted approach to support a more sustainable, honest, humane and safe food system. In its lawsuits, it represent farmers, rural communities, consumers, and workers. In its advocacy, it spreads awareness of the systemic inequities that have allowed a corporate takeover of the food system.

  • The Reducetarian Foundation aims to improve human health, protect the environment, and spare farmed animals from cruelty by reducing societal consumption of animal products. We work to transform individual and institutional attitudes and behaviors while increasing collaboration within the movement.

  • Representing Animals works toward a reduction in the production, consumption, and other uses, of non-human animals globally. Those animals still used for human purposes should experience better welfare.

  • Rethink Your Food envisions a food system free from animal exploitation. RYF's projects work to encourage people of Caribbean heritage to imagine and work towards a more compassionate food system by promoting a plant-based diet and growing food using plant-based ecological methods.

  • Scarlet Spark provides free leadership and organizational consulting, coaching, and training to accelerate the speed-to-mission of organizations that help animals. It improves employee and volunteer: Recruitment, Retention, Engagement, Inclusion and Results.

  • U.S.-based Sentient Media is a journalistic nonprofit organization working to create transparency around the food system and its impacts on humans, the environment, and nonhuman animals.

  • Stop Animal Exploitation NOW's mission is to END animal experiments through cutting-edge investigations, hard-hitting media exposés, and public pressure.

  • Sinergia Animal is working to end the worst practices of industrial animal agriculture. It works in Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Indonesia and Thailand - to reduce the suffering of animals exploited by the food industry and to reduce the consumption of animal products.

  • Tanya O’Callaghan is one of a handful of exceptional individuals who are so engaged and impactful with their global activism that the Foundation provides some support.

  • The Accountability Board is an active investor in over 100 of the largest publicly-traded companies. Our portfolio advocacy focuses largely on ensuring transparency and policy compliance, improving corporate governance, and strengthening shareholder rights.

  • Thrive Philanthropy is a global grantmaking firm that amplifies vegan, just food systems and accelerates alternatives to industrial animal agriculture by strengthening frontline organizations and connecting impact-driven donors with a network of 300+ food justice advocates across the world.

  • UnchainedTV is a free online Network and app for news, movies, and TV content for animal rights and the vegan/cruelty-free lifestyle.

  • We are a global community of passionate animal advocates offering our skills in building technology for the animal protection movement through design, development, and data. As capacity builders, we deliver innovative and quality services at no cost to advocates and organizations. Leveraging our vast network of volunteers, we collaborate with individuals and organizations to offer web development, branding, and advisory services.

  • Veganuary is a charity inspiring people to try vegan for January and throughout the rest of the year.

  • Vegetarianos Hoy works in Chile, Colombia, and Mexico to improve animal welfare standards by influencing corporations to adopt cage-free egg commitments. They also work to influence individuals to decrease their consumption of animal products through vegan pledge programs and a mobile phone app.

  • Vermont Law School’s Animal Law Society is dedicated to providing a forum for education, advocacy, and scholarship directed towards protecting the lives and advancing the interest of animals through the legal system, and raising the profile of the animal law field.

  • Grounded in grassroots senior leadership, We Are Family mobilizes a committed corps of volunteers to reach out to isolated inner-city seniors with free services, advocacy, and companionship, building a network of caring eyes and ears that enables at-risk seniors to age in place.

  • White Coat Waste Project’s mission is to stop taxpayer-funded animal experiments. Through investigations, media, and lobbying, it attacks the root of the problem: $15 billion in wasteful government spending. It’s work has been featured in New York Times, USA Today, Washington Post, and hundreds more.