Welcome to this edition of the newsletter and many thanks for sending your updates!
First off, this community just got a free Slack space, created and managed by Cameron King and myself, which I’m delighted to invite you to! Please fill out this form to be added.
Our new Slack community is a hub for everyone who wants to help animals in an impactful way. We started this space to forge new connections, share knowledge and generate innovative ideas. So if you're involved in this important work, we invite you to join us and introduce yourself to our community of passionate and driven animal advocates.
💡Topics being discussed:
Scottish salmon farms' death toll of 15 million sparks MSP calls for urgent inquest
Hawaii's octopus farm temporarily halted in wake of the Every Animal Project investigation
What ACE Movement Grantees were able to achieve with their grants
Menu of Outcomes Series: Six ways charities are strengthening the animal advocacy movement
Mass crab die-off: scientists say ‘we weren’t questioned’ for crucial report
Why animal welfare laws do not apply to insects – and the reason they should
Fast Company: You don’t want to know where your shrimp comes from
New School Foods’ filet looks and tastes like salmon, but it’s actually plants
New plant-focused diet would ‘transform’ planet’s future, say scientists
What do we know about animals being farmed outside the food system?
‘There Is No Alternative’: Lidl Announces Plans To Reduce Meat In Stores
Washington Post: Which food is better for the planet? (interactive article)
📕Latest research:
Which Advocacy Tactics are Most Effective to Change Diets?: A Faunalytics Infocomic
How meat-free meal selection varies with menu options: an exploration
❤️️Community profile: Rights for Animal Rights Advocates - RARA
RARA is a new organisation working to ensure animal rights advocates work or volunteer under just and sustainable conditions, for the sake of humans and nonhumans alike. Leave an anonymous review about your animal advocacy organisation at Rights for Animal Advocates. This organisation allows advocates to read and submit reviews of the organizations they work for and provides resources on workers' rights.
💼Jobs:
Shrimp Welfare Project is hiring for a Research Lead. Deadline is February 17 (today)
Factory Farming Awareness's Advocacy Institute is an 8-week, fully funded, immersive educational fellowship for high school and college students from June to August. Applications are rolling.
Corporate Engagement Manager, US at Veganuary, deadline Feb 28th
For more jobs like this, please visit Animal Advocacy Careers’ job board, Alt Protein database, and the 80,000 Hours job board.
If you’re looking for a job, consider the following actions:
leaving your details on the alt protein talent database
leaving your details on the EAA talent database
🔅Other impactful opportunities:
Opportunity to help EAA charities win thousands of dollars with a few clicks by voting for their videos (Feb 17-19)
💸Funding
Animal Charity Evaluators' Movement Grants Program is now accepting funding applications until March 17th.
Funding database created by Animal Advocacy Africa - not only relevant for African orgs
Farmed animal and food systems funding sources - public - this is a great spreadsheet with most funding opportunities available listed.
🎁Resources:
Culture Canopy is offering a number of people & culture-related projects to the animal advocacy movement to support organizations in how they think about how their reward their employees and their international setup, to equip the movement with data and guidance for the future.
Longtermism and animals: Resources + join our Discord community!
Sentience Institute’s podcast: Matti Wilks on human-animal interaction and moral circle expansion
🎉Upcoming events
Scarlet Spark Office Hours: For animal-loving companies to help with their most pressing leadership and organizational questions. They will be held on Tuesday, February 21st: 18:00 - 19:00 GMT (1pm - 2pm ET), Thursday, March 9th: 13:00 - 14:00 GMT (8am - 9am ET), and Tuesday, March 28th: 18:00 - 19:00 GMT (1pm - 2pm ET)
The Alternative Protein Industry - Jobs, Careers & Opportunities with Talist
Upcoming EAGs (Effective Altruism Global) conferences, almost always have some animal welfare-focused participants and events
EAGxNordics (21 - 23 April 2023)
EA Global: London (19 - 21 May 2023)
AVA summit is back this year - 27-30th July in LA, US
Connect For Animals has a great website where you can view a comprehensive list of animal advocacy and vegan events, including plenty of online events.
📝Send me your news, research, resources, and jobs.
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