Resources

A focused directory for finding animal advocacy jobs, funding, training, research, action opportunities, conferences, local movement activity, and burnout support.

Job boards and career paths

Animal advocacy, vegan business, alternative protein, policy, law, and food-systems career resources for people who want their work to help animals.

Animal Advocacy Careers Job Board

Animal Advocacy Careers

A curated board for paid and volunteer roles at animal advocacy organizations. It is especially useful for people moving into movement work or looking for a higher-impact role in advocacy, operations, fundraising, or research.

Visit resource animaladvocacycareers.org

Factory Farming Jobs

80,000 Hours

A filtered 80,000 Hours job board for factory farming and other high-impact problem areas. It serves impact-focused job seekers comparing roles across research, policy, philanthropy, operations, and technology.

Visit resource 80000hours.org

VeganJobs.com

VeganJobs.com

A free vegan jobs and resume hub for plant-based companies, nonprofits, and mission-aligned employers. It is broad enough for entry-level, freelance, and career roles.

Visit resource veganjobs.com

VegNews Staff Jobs

VegNews

VegNews posts openings for its vegan food, culture, and lifestyle media team. It is most relevant for people interested in editorial, audience, business, or operations work inside vegan media.

Visit resource vegnews.com

Employment Opportunities

Animal Legal Defense Fund

ALDF lists its current openings and other animal law or nonprofit opportunities. It is a strong starting point for attorneys, legal support staff, policy advocates, and nonprofit professionals.

Alternative Protein Career Portal

The Good Food Institute

GFI combines open roles, career guidance, and sector explainers for plant-based, fermentation-derived, and cultivated meat work. It serves job seekers who want to reduce industrial animal agriculture through food innovation.

AltProtein.Jobs

Talist

A specialist board for food tech, sustainability, and alternative protein roles around the world. It is useful for scientists, operators, marketers, and founders looking for work in the alt-protein sector.

Visit resource altprotein.jobs

VeganWork

VeganWork

A hiring site that connects vegan and vegetarian job seekers with like-minded employers. It is a practical option for candidates who want values alignment across many role types, not just nonprofit advocacy.

Visit resource veganwork.com

Animal Policy Careers

Animal Policy Careers

A policy-career project that helps people pursue animal welfare and alternative-protein policy roles. It offers career-path guidance, expert support, networking, and curated policy opportunities.

Visit resource animalpolicycareers.org

Food Impact Careers

Food Impact Careers

A job board for people who want to work on a more sustainable and innovative food system. The roles skew toward food tech, alternative proteins, sustainability, and companies trying to change how food is produced.

Visit resource foodimpactcareers.com

Funding, grants, and effective giving

Places to find funders, grant opportunities, fundraising guidance, and donation research for farmed-animal and food-systems work.

Connect For Animals

Connect For Animals

CFA is the free platform that helps people find animal advocacy events, actions, groups, and resources. Donations support movement infrastructure that makes it easier for advocates to connect and take practical action.

Donate connectforanimals.com

Animal Charity Evaluators

Animal Charity Evaluators

ACE researches animal advocacy interventions, evaluates charities, and publishes giving recommendations. Donors use it to compare organizations and support funds such as Movement Grants.

Visit resource animalcharityevaluators.org

Animal Welfare Fund

Effective Altruism Funds

A pooled fund that makes grants to projects expected to reduce large-scale animal suffering. It is built for donors who want expert grantmakers to allocate across promising animal welfare opportunities.

Visit resource funds.effectivealtruism.org

Giving For Animals

Animal Advocacy Careers

A pledge and donation guide that encourages people to direct a percentage of income toward impactful animal organizations. It is aimed at donors who want a simple habit for supporting farmed-animal work over time.

Visit resource animaladvocacycareers.org

Farmed Animal and Food Systems Funding Sources

Public Google Sheet

A public spreadsheet of funders and funding sources for farmed-animal and food-systems work. The sheet notes that it is no longer updated, so treat it as a lead list and verify every opportunity before relying on it.

Visit resource docs.google.com

Vegan Cheat Sheet Funding Links

Vegan Cheat Sheet

A large directory of vegan links with a funding section alongside books, podcasts, organizations, campaigns, and media. It is useful when you want a broad scan of movement resources in one place.

Visit resource vegancheatsheet.org

Women Funders in Animal Rights

Women Funders in Animal Rights

WFAR is a giving circle and grantmaker focused on women-led and women-facing animal rights and vegan organizations. It serves small grassroots groups seeking aligned funders and donors who want to support underrepresented leadership.

Visit resource womenfundersinar.org

Funding Opportunities

Animal Advocacy Africa

A database of publicly available funding opportunities created to build the capacity of African animal advocacy organizations. It is also useful for advocates in countries where the animal movement is smaller or still emerging.

Visit resource animaladvocacyafrica.org

Foundation Groups

Connect For Animals

CFA's groups directory can be filtered by organization type to find foundations and funders already represented in the movement map. It is useful when you want funder context alongside other group profile information.

Browse groups connectforanimals.com

Thrive Philanthropy

Thrive Philanthropy

A global grantmaker and capacity-builder working to accelerate alternatives to industrial animal agriculture and plant-based food systems. Its programs emphasize Africa, Asia, Latin America, and global movement-building.

Visit resource thrivephilanthropy.org

Fundraising for Animal Advocacy Wiki

Impactful Animal Advocacy

A public Notion wiki for early-stage animal advocacy fundraisers. It collects funding opportunities, practical fundraising guidance, and contacts for consultants who can help newer organizations build fundraising capacity.

Visit resource impactfulaa.notion.site

Broad resource libraries

General-purpose libraries for advocates who want media, organization lists, sanctuary guidance, or other movement references.

Vegan Cheat Sheet

Vegan Cheat Sheet

A large directory of updated vegan links covering books, podcasts, organizations, documentaries, news, activism, recipes, and funding. It is useful for both new vegans and experienced advocates who need a quick reference hub.

Visit resource vegancheatsheet.org

UnchainedTV

UnchainedTV

A free nonprofit streaming network focused on vegan news, plant-based cooking, documentaries, podcasts, and animal advocacy stories. It serves viewers looking for movement media and shareable educational content.

Visit resource unchainedtv.com

The Open Sanctuary Project

The Open Sanctuary Project

A free library of well-researched guidance for responsible animal sanctuary care and management. It is built for sanctuary staff, volunteers, and advocates who need practical animal-care, governance, and operations resources.

Visit resource opensanctuary.org

Courses, academies, and skill-building

Training options for people building advocacy, media, legal, policy, leadership, public speaking, and alternative-protein knowledge.

Free Courses for Animal Advocates

Animal Charity Evaluators

ACE's roundup collects free courses that help animal advocates build skills, relationships, and practical movement knowledge. It is a good first stop when you are choosing between several training paths.

Visit resource animalcharityevaluators.org

Advocate to Journalist

Sentient Media

A Sentient Media course for advocates who want to write and report on animals, food systems, and factory farming with journalistic discipline. It serves writers who want to reach broader audiences without losing accuracy or ethics.

Visit resource sentient-media.mn.co

Animal Chaplaincy Training

Compassion Consortium

A non-denominational training program for people who want to support animals and the humans who love them through ritual, ceremony, and spiritual companionship. It serves advocates drawn to grief care, interspecies care, and compassionate vocation work.

Visit resource compassionconsortium.org

Animal Justice Academy

Animal Justice Academy

A free online advocacy training program, community, and action collective with self-paced lessons plus live panels and workshops. It serves new and experienced advocates who want tools for political engagement, outreach, media, and resilience.

Visit resource animaljusticeacademy.com

Animal Law Fundamentals

The Brooks Institute

An educational video series featuring animal law scholars and practitioners on core topics in animal law. It serves law students, attorneys, policy advocates, and anyone trying to understand the field's legal foundations.

Visit resource thebrooksinstitute.org

New Roots Institute Fellowship

New Roots Institute

A leadership fellowship that helps people turn concern for climate, animal welfare, and social justice into real-world impact. It is especially relevant for students and emerging leaders building food-systems advocacy skills.

Collaborative Advocacy

Sentient Media

A Sentient Media course on working with others to make animal advocacy communication stronger and more coordinated. It serves advocates who want better coalition habits, shared messaging, and collaborative campaign practice.

Visit resource sentient-media.mn.co

Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Justice

Sentient Media

A Sentient Media learning space for applying diversity, equity, inclusion, and justice principles to animal advocacy and communication. It is useful for advocates who want stronger, more accountable movement culture.

Visit resource sentient-media.mn.co

Effective Vegan Advocacy

Center for Effective Vegan Advocacy

A course on having productive conversations about veganism so people hear the message as intended. It serves advocates who want practical communication tools for outreach, personal conversations, and community education.

Visit resource veganadvocacy.org

How to Write Investigative Stories

Sentient Media

A Sentient Media course focused on investigative story development for animal and food-system issues. It serves writers and advocates who want to move from broad concern to reported, evidence-based narratives.

Visit resource sentient-media.mn.co

Introduction to Animal Advocacy

Animal Advocacy Careers

A free course on turning values into a career helping animals, including roles, impact paths, and next steps. It serves people exploring animal advocacy careers or trying to design a more focused career plan.

Visit resource animaladvocacycareers.org

Introduction to Plant-Based Campaigns

Anima International

A course for people starting or improving plant-based campaigns, with guidance on planning professional and effective campaign work. It serves advocates working on institutional food change and public-facing food campaigns.

Visit resource animal-advocacy-center.thinkific.com

Labor Rights Within Animal Protection

Sentient Media

A Sentient Media course for advocates who want to understand labor issues and worker-centered considerations within animal protection work. It is useful for communicators and campaigners connecting animal advocacy with broader justice concerns.

Visit resource sentient-media.mn.co

Leadership in Animal Advocacy

Sentient Media

A leadership course for advocates building judgment, communication, and organizational effectiveness in the animal movement. It serves people stepping into project, team, or community leadership roles.

Visit resource sentient-media.mn.co

Privilege and Inclusivity in the Vegan Movement

Center for Effective Vegan Advocacy

A course on understanding privilege and building a more inclusive vegan movement. It gives advocates practical tools for communicating about privilege and strengthening movement culture.

Visit resource veganadvocacy.org

Social Media and Advocacy

Sentient Media

A course on using social platforms for animal protection work, from personal brand basics to advocacy-oriented content strategy. It serves advocates and communicators who want to turn online attention into meaningful movement support.

Visit resource sentientmedia.org

Speak Up for Animals

Anima International

A public-speaking course with preparation ideas, anxiety-management methods, and voice tools for animal advocates. It serves people giving talks, interviews, trainings, or campaign presentations.

Visit resource animal-advocacy-center.thinkific.com

Sustainable Vegan Advocacy

Center for Effective Vegan Advocacy

A course on avoiding burnout, building resilience, and keeping advocacy sustainable over the long term. It is useful for advocates who want to stay effective without sacrificing their health or relationships.

Visit resource veganadvocacy.org

Telling Your Story

Sentient Media

A Sentient Media course on shaping personal experience into compelling advocacy storytelling. It serves advocates, writers, and speakers who want stories that are honest, strategic, and audience-aware.

Visit resource sentient-media.mn.co

The Science of Effective Vegan Advocacy

Center for Effective Vegan Advocacy

A course on evidence-based vegan advocacy, including which approaches research suggests are more or less effective. It serves advocates who want to ground outreach strategy in behavior science and impact evidence.

Visit resource veganadvocacy.org

The Science Behind Alternative Proteins

The Good Food Institute

GFI's open-access course introduces the science of plant-based and cultivated meat. It serves students, scientists, entrepreneurs, advocates, and curious donors who want a structured primer on alternative proteins.

Understanding Farming

Sentient Media

A Sentient Media course for understanding farming systems and how animal agriculture is discussed in public narratives. It serves advocates and writers who need stronger context before communicating about farmed animals.

Visit resource sentient-media.mn.co

Vegan Bootcamp

Vegan Hacktivists

A free self-guided program designed to help people go vegan in 30 days or less. It is a useful referral for new vegans, curious friends, and outreach programs that need a structured next step.

Visit resource veganbootcamp.org

We Animals Photography Masterclass

We Animals

A photography masterclass developed to train the next generation of animal photojournalists. It serves photographers and visual storytellers who want to document animal lives with rigor, care, and impact.

Visit resource weanimalsmedia.org

Writing to Rank

Sentient Media

A Sentient Media course on writing search-aware content that can reach readers beyond an existing supporter base. It is useful for animal advocates, editors, and nonprofit communicators publishing online educational work.

Visit resource sentient-media.mn.co

Conferences and local movement activity

CFA-maintained directories for finding large gatherings, nearby events, groups, and people in specific cities.

Conferences

Connect For Animals

CFA collects conferences related to ending factory farming, vegan advocacy, animal rights, alternative proteins, and the broader movement. It is useful for advocates who want to meet peers, learn quickly, and build a stronger network.

Browse conferences connectforanimals.com

Cities

Connect For Animals

CFA city pages help people find events, groups, and advocates in a specific local area. They are a practical starting point when you want something nearby, whether you live there or are traveling.

Browse cities connectforanimals.com

Ways to take action now

Action hubs for petitions, calls, online campaigning, rapid response, and practical tasks that help animals.

Actions

Connect For Animals

CFA's actions directory collects concrete tasks from the animal advocacy movement, including petitions, outreach, calls, and campaign support. Logged-in members can browse and save relevant actions.

Browse actions connectforanimals.com

Today For Animals

Today For Animals

A daily action platform where people can take animal advocacy actions, earn points and badges, and keep momentum going. It serves people who want simple, recurring actions they can do from anywhere.

Visit resource todayforanimals.org

Fast Action Network

The Humane League

The Humane League's online activist network sends quick digital actions that pressure companies and institutions to improve conditions for farmed animals. It is designed for people who can spare a few minutes at a time.

Visit resource thehumaneleague.org

Action Center

Mercy For Animals

Mercy For Animals' action hub gathers petitions, messages, calls, and other campaign actions against farmed animal abuse. It is useful when you want an established campaign organization to provide the next concrete step.

Visit resource mercyforanimals.org

RAVEN

International Council for Animal Welfare

RAVEN is a weekly rapid virtual escalation network with hand-crafted actions such as petitions, social media engagement, and messages to decision-makers. It serves advocates who want recurring, campaign-specific pressure opportunities.

Research and evidence

Starting points for animal advocacy research, data, intervention evidence, and issue overviews.

Sources of Information for Animal Advocacy Research

Animal Charity Evaluators

ACE's Programs team shares information sources they find useful for animal advocacy research. It is a good research-starting checklist when comparing interventions, charities, movement data, and policy evidence.

Visit resource animalcharityevaluators.org

Faunalytics Fundamentals

Faunalytics

Faunalytics Fundamentals are topic overviews and resource collections with current data on major animal issues. They serve advocates who need fast, evidence-backed context on farmed animals, companion animals, wildlife, aquaculture, and more.

Visit resource faunalytics.org

Burnout prevention and advocate care

Resources for advocates who need to assess stress, sustain their work, and care for themselves while doing emotionally demanding advocacy.

Self-Care Assessment

University at Buffalo School of Social Work

A PDF assessment that helps people reflect on self-care across physical, psychological, emotional, spiritual, relationship, and workplace categories. It is useful for advocates who want a structured check-in rather than vague advice.

Visit resource socialwork.buffalo.edu

Self Care

Animal Save Movement

Animal Save Movement offers self-care guidance for vegan activists working in emotionally difficult conditions. It speaks directly to burnout, recharge time, and sustaining a love-based approach to advocacy.

Visit resource thesavemovement.org

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