The best of IAA Slack: January
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!
🙏 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!
Is anyone here focusing their animal advocacy outreach to working with religious organizations?
Does anyone know of any resources that monitor the relative prices of animal proteins?
🤖 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?
❤️️️ 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:
My name is Ryan Bulzan, and I work as an Organizing Training and Events Specialist at The Humane League.
Hi all, I'm Dr. Tom Cohen Ben-Arye, for the past 15 years I focused on alt protein. I did my Ph.D. on cultivated meat.
My name is Juyeon and I'm the Program and Development Coordinator at Beyond Carnism.
My name is Tiina Vuolle and I just started working as a Communications Manager at Viral Vegans (Helsinki, Finland).
I’m Geofrey Junior Waako - Executive Director, Youth for Animals and Veganism Africa based in Jinja, Uganda
💼 Jobs:
Our #06-job-postings channel is one of the most popular ones!
Operations specialist at Legal Impact for Chickens
Better Chicken Commitment Campaigner at the Australian Alliance for Animals
Community manager and fundraising coordinator at Observatorio de Bienestar
Several opportunities at Sinergia Animal and ProVeg International.
👩💻 Slack feature updates
⭐️ Our Slack is now one year old (and has over 1900 members!)
In early 2023, we drew this mindmap — view our full post describing our initial vision for IAA. We are overjoyed to see the community grow into such a vibrant space for collaboration!
We have started a new community for operations professionals in the #operations channel with New Roots and are hosting a networking session on February 7.
Are you looking for a job and want to join a supportive private community? Message Becca Rogers on Slack to be added to our job seeker channel.
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🔥 Funding
Have a question about fundraising? Ask in our #s-fundraising channel and check out our new Fundraising wiki
ASPCA has launched their 2024 Fund to End Factory Farming
Thrive's first grant round of 2024 is open, deadline 1 March.
Challenge 22 [is] offering grants for small NGO's interested in hosting a vegan challenge.
🎁 Tools & Resources
Have a resource to share? #05-tools-resources is a channel for you!
These last few days, I’ve been feeling great and reflecting on why it is so (daily mental health routine advice)
Stanford Humane & Sustainable Food Seminar is now open to public!
Applications are now open to CAPC's 1-on-1 Capacity Building Support, for NGOs working in Asia on farm animal welfare/ diet change
👋 Opportunities and help offered
Keep an eye on generous offers in the #help-offered channel😍
I can help make referrals to folks who apply to one or more of Anthropic’s 50+ open roles.
I am currently studying Computer Science, proficient in JavaScript/TypeScript and Python, and can easily adapt to other programming languages based on project requirements. I also have extensive experience in data visualisation, particularly with geospatial data: contact me if you need assistance (pro bono) with anything.
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