The best of IAA Slack: February
Useful conversations & resources from our Slack community
So many exciting projects and news mentioned on Slack — learn about them in less than 10 minutes!
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Slack channels covered:
💡 Discussions
🙏 Help requests: answered
🤖 AI channels
❤️️️ Introductions
💼 Jobs
👩💻 Slack feature updates
🔥 Funding
🎁 Tools & Resources
👋 Opportunities and help offered
💡 Discussions:
Want to start a discussion or get other opinions? Ask away in the #02-discussions!
Learning from charities that didn’t work out: a discussion around a Mediterranean fish welfare charity.
Has anyone thought about creating AI-generated content-driven websites targeting niche audiences with relevant pro-animal content?
NYT published a fairly scathing editorial on cultivated meat. The author raises a point about how $3 billion have went into cultivated meat without much to show for it. Could that $3 billion been better spent elsewhere?
“Three tricky biases” that can affect our thinking about how to do good
Do you think the Environmental Terminology Is Killing The Individual Animal?
🙏 Help requests: answered
Did you know you can ask *any* farmed animal advocacy question in this #03-help-requests channel? Whatever you’re struggling with, or are curious about. There is no such thing as a stupid question!
Does anyone have experience in taking an NGO from a ~10-person team to the next level, whilst securing funding that goes further than 12 months?
Does someone have a list of funders or funding opportunities in the movement?
I was wondering if you use some tool or app that help you create your budget and also keep track of spendings.
Is there a tool that can take an image of a table and export that table as a spreadsheet?
🤖 AI channels
Did you know that we have 3 AI channels to complement our AI and Animals Wiki: #c-ai-discussion, #s-ai-tools and #s-ai-images?
I'm wondering what we expect the outcome from trying to influence regulators and companies regarding speciesism in LLMs to be.
Has anyone thought about creating AI-generated content-driven websites targeting niche audiences with relevant pro-animal content?
Open AI just released demos of their text-to-video model, Sora! Here are some of my initial thoughts…
❤️️️ Introductions:
Our #01-introductions channel is a great way to get to know the community.
Haven’t had a chance to introduce yourself? It’s never too late! Introducing yourself improves the chances of connecting with more advocates. Here are some intros from new members:
I'm Noa Weiss, an AI & Machine Learning Consultant based in Israel (though relocating to the San Francisco Bay Area soon).
I'm Dahlia. I’m the founder of Vegpal, the premier dating and friendship app for vegans!
Hi I'm Chris Smith - Program Officer at Open Philanthropy based in Brussels, Belgium
Hi I’m Jesús del Saz - Institutional Fish Welfare Specialist (Animal Welfare Observatory) based in Spain
Hi I’m Mariana Arellano - Open Wing Alliance Latam Coordinator based in Mexico
💼 Jobs:
Our #06-job-postings channel is one of the most popular ones!
Global Growth Manager and Global Campaigns Manager at Anima International
Csuite role at Vegpal
Junior Analyst - Climate Investing at Better Bite Ventures
Educators and Lead Educators at New Roots Institute.
👩💻 Slack feature updates
We’ve been growing our Slack community and passed the 2,000 member milestone! 🎇
We have a lot of new Slack channels! You can find a full list here! Some of our new channels include:
📈#s-ask-a-marketer: in collaboration with User-Friendly, this is a new space to ask for pro-bono marketing advice
👩💻#s-software-engineering: for SWEs to discuss projects, donations, etc
📣#x-amplify-allies: Post links to increase the reach of your campaigns on social
We had our first Digital Platforms Coordination call last week – feel free to join the conversation at #s-platforms or read the call summary.
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🔥 Funding
Have a question about fundraising? Ask in our #s-fundraising channel and check out our new Fundraising wiki!
Animal Charity Evaluators’ Movement Grants is open to receive applications! Deadline is March 17.
Meta Charity Funders are launching their second round. Deadline is March 24.
🎁 Tools & Resources
Have a resource to share? #05-tools-resources is a channel for you!
Animal Think Tank has a Substack.
80,000 Hours released their new series on building skills! For animal-specific bottlenecked skills, check out Animal Advocacy Careers!
Report on how industrial food animal production, viewed as a system; and how we can tackle it through system change!
Productivity Glossary has one-sentence definitions for a bunch of productivity terms (like Deep Work, Timeblocking, Flow States etc.) And each term has its own page where it delves into things like the benefits and best practices for each!
👋 Opportunities and help offered
Keep an eye on generous offers in the #help-offered channel😍
Seeking pro bono marketing advice? User-Friendly is thrilled to announce their new Slack channel dedicated to providing expert insights.
Help and collaboration in China:
create and translate content and make short video content into Chinese
connect vegan activists and communities in China, including Taiwan and HK
collaborate and promote your project, campaigns, stories or hiring information on my channel to more Chinese activists
Reminder: Faunalytics can help advocates with any research questions they may have!
Scarlet Spark is accepting applications for their People Skills for Animal People: Leadership Skills program!
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