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ACE Movement Grants

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

October, 2020

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
July, 2020

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
November, 2019

For our second round of grants, we awarded $492,000 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
April, 2019

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

How is ACE Movement Grants different from the Recommended Charity Fund?
The Recommended Charity Fund supports only ACE’s currently recommended Top and Standout Charities, while ACE Movement Grants supports a wider range of promising interventions. Grant recipients may include charities and programs that we feel show promise and are worthy of funding, though they may not meet all of our criteria for a Top or Standout recommendation. Essentially, ACE Movement Grants casts a wider net and may invest in more speculative or early-stage programs, while the Recommended Charity Fund offers donors more predictability. Donors who are interested in higher-risk/higher-reward investments may be more drawn to ACE Movement Grants, while donors who are more risk-averse may find the Recommended Charity Fund to be a better fit.
How is the distribution of ACE Movement Grants determined?
Donations will be distributed to promising charities around the world, and a limited amount may also be distributed to ACE’s recommended charities. The disbursement of ACE Movement Grants will be determined by the program’s review committee. We are likely to fund a wide scope of charities, organizations, and individuals that are not necessarily on our list of recommendations, but that are pursuing important work within the movement.Details on our process are subject to change as our thinking evolves.
For more detailed information on how applications were evaluated in our first round of funding, please see our official announcement.
Can I donate monthly to ACE Movement Grants?
Yes! Simply make a donation to ACE Movement Grants, and click “MONTHLY.”
If I’m looking for funding for a research project, should I apply to ACE Movement Grants or the Animal Advocacy Research Fund?
In order to ensure research projects are of the highest possible standards, we are asking that all funding requests for research projects be submitted to the Animal Advocacy Research Fund (AARF), which has a grant evaluation process that is better optimized for research.The purpose of the AARF is to support research that contributes to an understanding of effective animal advocacy. A generous benefactor has committed $1,000,000 to be used for this program over three years. We hope to distribute most of this funding via grants to advocacy groups, academics (including graduate students and postdoctoral Researchers), and other qualified Researchers.
Does ACE Movement Grants require that grantees publicize the grant?
ACE Movement Grants does not require this. Being included in the grant announcements blog post or on other pages on ACE’s website is optional; grantees are given the opportunity to remain anonymous. Everything we write about the grantees will be confirmed with the grantees prior to publication to ensure we are representing them accurately and no confidential information is included. Announcing the grant to the grantees’ own audiences is also not required.
How do I apply for funding from ACE Movement Grants?
We are not currently accepting applications for this fund. The next round of funding will open in 2021.

  1. Initially we announced funding 19 projects but we have not been able to disburse one of the grants. 

  2. This grant recipient has requested to remain anonymous for strategic reasons. 

  3. Initially we announced funding 49 projects but we have not been able to disburse one of the grants. 

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