Category: Advice For Advocates
Vegan Diet 101: Benefits and Resources to Get Started
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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Free Courses for Animal Advocates
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
Animal Rights Movement: Understanding When and Why It Started
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
Crossroads Series: What Can Animal Advocates Learn from the Environmental Movement to Strengthen Our Advocacy Efforts?
Climate change disproportionately affects people in marginalized communities and many nonhuman animals. Industrialized animal agriculture is one of the highest sources of global CO2 emissions and has a catastrophic impact on all aspects of our environment. To reduce this impact on vulnerable populations and nonhuman animals, we must also advocate for the end of factory farming. … Read more
Crossroads Series: What lessons can animal advocates learn from other social movements for change?
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
Roundtable: How Can Advocates Manage or Avoid Compassion Fatigue?
How can advocates manage or avoid compassion fatigue? Learn more in our blog post. … Read more
Roundtable: How Can Organizations Responsibly Expand Internationally?
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
Roundtable: How Can Remote Organizations Foster Employee Engagement?
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
Roundtable: How Can Remote Employees Maintain a Healthy Work-Life Balance?
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
Roundtable: How Can Remote Organizations Effectively Hire and Onboard New Employees?
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
Should Veg Activists Use Health Arguments?
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