The best of IAA Slack: November
Useful conversations & resources from our Slack community
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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!
This post makes the case that Open Philanthropy (OP) should focus a larger proportion of their neartermist funding to farmed animal welfare. OP responded — What do people think about this response?
ACE have just announced recommended charities! What are your thoughts?
🙏 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!
Looking for online research volunteers. Anyone interested, or know someone who might be interested, in helping build out and maintain our database of corporate animal welfare policies?
Looking for an illustrator to create images for the activities and guidance for how to get an educational activity book like this published + suggestions from Midjourney
I am quite overwhelmed with so many AI tools available for writing papers. Does anyone knows a good resource explaining what are the best AI tools to use and how to use them?
🤖 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?
Anyone using Make.com (PS you should and they offer a pro plan for free to non profits for a year) they just integrated the new OpenAI features
Notes from UK poultry companies’ webinar about AI in the poultry industry (see reply thread!)
❤️️️ 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.
My name is Vanille, I’ve been an Animal Rights Activist for years and I work as a Coordinator for the National Animal Rights Day.
This is Tugce Uluurgun Soykan. I am a marketing & branding strategy advisor with 13 years of experience.
My name is Benjamin Pitkänen, and I am the co-founder of Viral Vegans, an animal rights group based in Helsinki, Finland.
💼 Jobs:
Our #06-job-postings channel is one of the most popular ones!
Farmed Animal Funders is hiring for two roles: The Senior Director of Development and The Director of Programs.
Our Planet. Theirs Too. is recruiting an organizer for Los Angeles and 2 Regional Coordinators (Asia and North America)
Welfare Matters has an opening for a Programme Coordinator in Indonesia
👩💻 Slack feature updates
⭐️ Our Slack has over 1,600 members!
We have facilitated over 150 1:1 in our #x-donut-meetings channel! Join it if you’d like to meet with other animal advocates every three weeks for an online coffee chat. We had feedback from the participants that these calls are quite valuable.
We’re using a new form to join Slack to improve the onboarding experience. Please share with your colleagues and friends in the movement!
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🔥 Funding
Have a question about fundraising? Ask in our #s-fundraising channel!
We have a new Fundraising wiki to help new projects with fundraising, with an updated database of all the funders we are aware of.
Does anyone have a grant management software they are happy with?
Fundraising origin story of Wild Animal Welfare (formerly Utility Farm and Wild-Animal Suffering Research)
🎁 Tools & Resources
Have a resource to share? #05-tools-resources is a channel for you!
Animal Think Tank's recent webinar with Pax Fauna is now available, along with additional free resources.
Asia Farmed Animal Day recordings are live.
DXE just published a 150 page Investigation Manual which covers everything from how to plan one, how to manage infighting, and how to defend yourself legally.
VEG3 AI-powered vegan and animal advocacy assistant, accessible for free if you're a ChatGPT Plus subscriber
👋 Opportunities and help offered
Feel free to reach out to me (Sofia) if you would like to learn how to use this community, need any kind of help but not sure how to request it, or simply need to talk to another animal advocate!
Centre for Enabling EA Learning and Research is offering free and subsidised accommodation and coworking spaces in Blackpool, UK.
I'm a volunteer for PAPYRUS - a UK young suicide prevention charity, and we can offer free 30-minute intro sessions to suicide prevention and available resources for animal people in the UK.
I'd like to offer my help in solving any large math problems that need a computational approach, such as optimization, fluid mechanics, and AI.
I am a cartoonist and video editor from Tanzania. I can help you create content and videos. I also create 3D cartoons for vegan and animal welfare issues.
For anyone looking for a Calendly alternative that is hosted in WP, I have a bunch of free licences to a new product called FluentBooking.
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