Category: Advice For Advocates
This is a guest blog post. All opinions are that of the guest blogger.
The year 2024 saw a resurgence in the United States in the use of ballot initiatives by farmed animal advocates. In Sonoma County, California, a coalition led by Direct Action Everywhere (DxE) proposed an outright ban on Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations (CAFOs)—a term used by the U.S. … Read more
Explore the vegan diet from ethical, health, and environmental perspectives. Find resources for recipes and pledge programs to begin your vegan journey.
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Enhance your skills in animal advocacy with these free online courses. Learn from experts and grow your network to create real-world change for animals. … Read more
Explore the evolution, impact, and challenges of the animal rights movement, from its historical roots to the modern emergence of effective animal advocacy. … Read more
Social movements are responsible for some of the most powerful changes around the world. They have the ability to change policies, introduce new laws, and change the mindsets of millions of people. What lessons can animal advocates learn from other social movements for change? … Read more
How can advocates manage or avoid compassion fatigue? Learn more in our blog post. … Read more
In our roundtable blog series, we ask a handful of contributors to provide their points of view on complex topics or unsettled questions. We hope that this approach will help us to integrate and learn from multiple perspectives on animal advocacy. … Read more
This is part three in a series of roundtable posts about remote organizational culture. You can find the other parts of this series here and here.
Introduction
ACE considers healthy organizational culture to be a critical aspect of successful and effective charities. … Read more
ACE considers healthy organizational culture to be a critical aspect of successful and effective charities. In this part of the series, we ask advocates and experts at partially and fully distributed organizations to discuss the indicators of healthy remote teams and to offer their advice for maintaining a healthy work-life balance. … Read more
ACE considers healthy organizational culture to be a critical aspect of successful and effective charities. In this part of the series, we ask advocates and experts at fully and partially distributed organizations to discuss what they consider to be the most important aspects of healthy remote culture, and to offer their advice for hiring and onboarding staff at a distance. … Read more
Discussions about how we can best advocate for veganism often take place between ethical vegans, so (unsurprisingly) the conclusion is usually that ethical arguments are the best approach.
For example, the Animal Activist’s Handbook calls health-based arguments “problematic” and urges readers to focus on ethics-based approaches. … Read more