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What are ACE Movement Grants, and how do they work?
ACE Movement Grants (formerly “Effective Animal Advocacy Fund”) is for anyone who is interested in making the animal advocacy movement more effective. ACE launched ACE Movement Grants in late 2018 for three main reasons:
- We believe that a broad, pluralistic animal advocacy movement is more likely to be resilient—and hence more impactful—than a narrow, monistic animal advocacy movement.
- There is little evidence available supporting the effectiveness of any given intervention, and we think that the movement can increase its chances of success by continuing to fund a wide range of interventions.
- We think that building relationships with a larger group of advocates and charities will make our own work more effective by providing us with new information to consider and new groups with which to collaborate.
Donations to ACE Movement Grants will be distributed to promising projects around the globe working to reduce animal suffering. The annual disbursement will be determined by the review committee. Applications are accepted.
Past ACE Movement Grants Recipients
For our fifth round of grants, we awarded $1,089,000 to 35 promising projects around the globe. More information about each of the recipients can be found in our official announcement. Funds granted in June 2021 were as follows:
| ACTAsia | $50,000 |
| Agriculture Fairness Alliance | $25,000 |
| Animal Ask | $40,000 |
| Animal Law Europe | $20,000 |
| Asociación para el Rescate y Bienestar de Los Animales | $10,000 |
| Asociația de Conștientizare a Industriei Agricole | $10,000 |
| Associação Vegetariana Portuguesa | $22,000 |
| Cellular Agriculture Australia | $20,000 |
| Christopher Sebastian | $35,000 |
| Çiftlik Hayvanlarını Koruma Derneği | $25,000 |
| Česká Veganská Společnost | $25,000 |
| Demissew Bekele | $10,000 |
| Dharma Voices for Animals | $40,000 |
| Encompass | $60,000 |
| Equalia | $40,000 |
| Expertise for Animals | $30,000 |
| Factory Farming Law & Policy Fellowship Program | $75,000 |
| Food Empowerment Project | $60,000 |
| Grassroots Artists Movement Inc. | $50,000 |
| Institute of Animal Law of Asia | $38,000 |
| Menú por el Planeta | $18,000 |
| Peace Advocacy Network | $20,000 |
| Perkumpulan Sahabat Satwa Jogja | $30,000 |
| Rostlinně | $10,000 |
| Sentient | $30,000 |
| Sentient Media | $60,000 |
| Shamayim: Jewish Animal Advocacy | $4,000 |
| Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Selangor | $50,000 |
| Southern African Faith Communities Environment Institute | $25,000 |
| UK Centre for Animal Law | $23,000 |
| Vegan Caribbean Kickstart | $15,000 |
| Veg Student Alliance | $24,000 |
| We Animals Media | $31,000 |
| World Day for the End of Fishing | $24,000 |
| xiaobuVEGAN | $40,000 |
For our fourth round of grants, we awarded $289,745 to 23 promising projects around the globe. More information about each of the recipients can be found in our official announcement. Funds granted in October 2020 were as follows:
| Animal Justice Project | $15,000 |
| Aquatic Animals Alliance | $30,000 |
| Arvind Animal Activist | $5,000 |
| Augi & Draugi | $11,245 |
| Black VegFest | $10,000 |
| Christopher Sebastian McJetters | $5,000 |
| Coalition of African Animal Welfare Organisations | $10,000 |
| Counterfactual Institute | $27,500 |
| Dansk Vegetarisk Forening | $15,000 |
| Dyrevernalliansen | $12,000 |
| Essere Animali | $15,000 |
| Factory Farming Awareness Coalition | $10,000 |
| People For Animals Uttarakhand | $15,000 |
| Perla Anerol Sifuentes García | $10,000 |
| Reimagine Agriculture | $10,000 |
| Réseau Sentience | $5,000 |
| Rostlinně | $10,000 |
| Sentient | $20,000 |
| Strategies for Ethical and Environmental Development | $19,000 |
| The Animal House Jamaica | $10,000 |
| Vegan Carribean Kickstart | $10,000 |
| Vegan Outreach | $10,000 |
| VivaBiH | $5,000 |
For our third round of grants, we awarded $341,250 to 19 promising projects around the globe. More information about each of the recipients can be found in our official announcement. Funds granted in July 2020 were as follows:
| Animal Advocacy Careers | $10,000 |
| Animal Justice | $10,000 |
| Aquatic Life Institute | $30,000 |
| Associação Vegetariana Portuguesa | $10,000 |
| Center for Animal Law Studies | $10,000 |
| Encompass | $35,000 |
| Freedom and Respect for Everything Earthling | $12,000 |
| Material Innovation Initiative | $25,000 |
| Menú por el Planeta | $4,000 |
| Rethink Priorities | $35,000 |
| SHAMAYIM: Jewish Animal Advocacy | $4,000 |
| The Greenfield Project | $11,250 |
| Modern Agriculture Foundation | $15,000 |
| Nonhuman Rights Project | $15,000 |
| UK Centre for Animal Law | $15,000 |
| Vegans of Shanghai | $35,000 |
| Vegetarianos Hoy | $25,000 |
| Wild Animal Initiative | $30,000 |
| World Day for the End of Fishing | $10,000 |
For our second round of grants, we awarded $491,980 to a diverse group of 18 charities and organizations around the world.1 One of the goals of ACE Movement Grants is to complement our recommended charities by funding smaller or less well-funded organizations that are highly promising, which are often working in neglected countries or regions. More information about each of the recipients can be found in our official announcement and grantee updates. Funds granted in November 2019 were as follows:
| Assiettes Végétales | $17,000 |
| Biofutura A.C. | $25,000 |
| The Center for Animal Law Studies (CALS) | $30,000 |
| Colorado Voters for Animals | $5,000 |
| Czech Vegan Society | $10,000 |
| Equalia | $20,000 |
| Humánny pokrok | $10,000 |
| Kaplan Lab at Tufts University | $50,000 |
| LIBERUM | $10,000 |
| OBRAZ | $10,000 |
| Paris Animaux Zoopolis | $40,000 |
| Pour l’Égalité Animale | $15,000 |
| Plant-based Policy Centre | $24,980 |
| Sneha’s Care | $43,000 |
| Vegan Outreach | $17,000 |
| Vegans of Shanghai | $50,000 |
| Wild Animal Initiative | $60,000 |
| Anonymous grant recipient 2 | $55,000 |
In April, we granted $1.39 million to a diverse group of 48 charities, organizations, and individuals from around the world3. Our goal for this round was to direct a substantial portion of our funding towards capacity-building projects, and we met this goal by funding 42 capacity-building proposals. We also hoped to fund a significant number of proposals supporting legal and policy work. We did not receive as many proposals as we hoped we would in that area, and we funded only 9 of them. Of the remaining grants, 31 are funding projects aimed at influencing public opinion, 9 are funding projects aimed at influencing industry, and 17 are funding projects aimed at building alliances. More information about each of the recipients, our research team’s evaluation and selection process, and future grant cycles can be found in our official announcement and grantee updates. Funds granted in April 2019 were as follows:
| Animal Aid UK | $50,000 |
| Animal Ethics | $44,000 |
| Animal Justice Project | $20,000 |
| Animal Place | $10,000 |
| Animal Welfare Media | $33,000 |
| Aph Ko | $40,000 |
| A Prayer for Compassion | $25,000 |
| Arvind Animal Activist | $5,000 |
| Balanced | $50,000 |
| Be Fair Be Vegan | $30,000 |
| Better Eating International | $50,000 |
| Center for Animal Law Studies | $50,000 |
| Centre for a Responsible Future | $15,000 |
| Christopher Sebastian McJetters | $25,000 |
| Compassion Over Killing | $30,000 |
| Compassionate Action for Animals | $40,000 |
| Dharma Voices for Animals | $15,000 |
| EAST | $40,000 |
| Emerging Markets Investors Alliance | $30,000 |
| Encompass | $50,000 |
| Equalia | $10,000 |
| Equal Sign | $15,000 |
| Essere Animali | $40,000 |
| Factory Farming Awareness Coalition | $50,000 |
| Factory Farming Legal Fellowship | $20,000 |
| Faunacción | $20,000 |
| Federation of Indian Animal Protection Organizations | $50,000 |
| Food Empowerment Project | $50,000 |
| Food Frontier | $21,000 |
| Grassroots Artists MovEment | $30,000 |
| Human Behaviour Change for Animals | $20,000 |
| LifeAfterHummus Community Benefit Society | $22,000 |
| Mission Vegan Andhra | $4,000 |
| Northwest VEG | $21,240 |
| Norwegian Animal Protection Alliance (Dyrevernalliansen) | $16,500 |
| Palestinian Animal League | $35,000 |
| Peace Advocacy Network | $20,000 |
| PlantPure Communities | $30,000 |
| The Save Movement | $58,580 |
| Sentient | $32,500 |
| Sneha’s Care | $18,600 |
| The Raven Corps | $10,000 |
| The Vegan Rainbow Project | $5,000 |
| The Veggie Connection | $10,000 |
| Thrive Baltimore Community Resource Center | $30,000 |
| UK Centre for Animal Law | $19,147 |
| Veganuary | $50,000 |
| Vegetarianos Hoy | $25,000 |
FAQ
For more detailed information on how applications were evaluated in our first round of funding, please see our official announcement.
