RESOURCES
To support your ongoing professional development as you grow your leadership skills in the animal protection movement, below you will find a compilation of free resources including funding opportunities, past training recordings, recommended reading, and more.
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We have chosen to make our compiled list of funding opportunities password protected and exclusive to Caucus community members to ensure that this valuable resource supports Black, Indigenous, and advocates of color who experience greater barriers to funding. We know that expanding access to funding for BIPOC-led and focused projects is incredibly important to creating equity in the animal protection movement and protecting communities of color against the harms of animal industries.
Funding Resources & Grant Opportunities
Video & Resource Library
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Breathwork for Burnout Prevention
— Brialle Ringer (she/her)
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Building Your Self-Care Toolkit
— Rida Chotani (they/them)
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Data Storytelling to Change the World
— Geetika Sripathi (she/her)
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Digital Media Literacy
— Christopher Sebastian (he/him)
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Inter-Animal Advocacy
— Jaya Bhumitra (she/her)
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Media Training 101
— Diane May (she/her)
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Overcoming Burnout
— Tiffany Walker-Roper (she/her)
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Imposter Syndrome
— Michelle Rojas-Soto (she/her)
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Your Relationship to Money
— Unny Nambudiripad (he/him)
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Resources for Leadership
— Encompass’ Leadership Development Program
Fundraising
Training
Series
One of the most common challenges we hear from BIPOC animal advocates is the difficulty they experience accessing funding to support their work.
We want people of color in the animal and vegan advocacy movement to feel well resourced, supported, and confident navigating the fundraising process so that their initiatives can continue to make a meaningful impact on the communities most impacted by animal industries.
We partnered up with 50by40 to offer a four-part (now five!) Fundraising Made Easy training series to support food system advocates of the global majority thrive.
If you're ready to create an effective fundraising strategy for your organization, click the button below for details about the series and to watch the recordings!
Animal Advocacy Academy
by Animal Alliance Asia (offered in 5 languages!)Social Justice + Our Food System Community Learning Program by Farm Sanctuary
Writer’s Collective
by Sentient Media. Joining the Writers' Collective is free and gives you access to self-paced online courses, monthly events, mentoring and more.
Trainings
Other Websites
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The Vegan Linguists
Vegan Linguists is a free content translation service run by vegans, for vegans. They translate vegan-friendly content to help make veganism more accessible worldwide!
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50by40
50by40’s Global Majority Programme brings together diverse stakeholders working towards transforming the food systems of countries of the Global Majority.
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Black Vegan Everything
Black Vegan Everything showcases the full spectrum of veganism amongst people of the African Diaspora. While veganism is highly associated with food, veganism is rooted in a lifestyle based on ethical choices. This space is not only dedicated to vegan food-related businesses, but it extends into a wide variety of Black-owned, intentionally vegan businesses.
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Faunalytics
Faunalytics conducts research and shares knowledge to help advocates help animals effectively. Check out their extensive research library and consider joining complimentary office hours for individual support.
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The Vegan Mainstream Job Board
This job board is a free/low-cost resource that Vegan Mainstream offers to assist in making ethically based work more accessible and widespread. The word “vegan” is often associated with food and restaurants, but on this job board you will find many vegan career opportunities – not only in the food industry – but also animal-friendly jobs in general (like animal farm and sanctuary positions), as well as other professional jobs that make a positive, useful contribution related to veganism / animal friendliness.
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Animal Advocacy Careers
This job board focuses on a narrow sub-section of jobs in animal welfare and animal jobs: roles at highly impact-focused animal advocacy nonprofits.
Recommended Reading
BOOKS
Aphroism by Aph and Syl Ko
Racism as Zoological Witchcraft by Aph Ko
Sistah Vegan: Black Women Speak on Food, Identity, Health, and Society edited by Dr. Breeze Harper
Brotha Vegan: Black Men Speak on Food, Identity, Health, and Society edited by Omowale Adawale
Vegan Entanglements: Dismantling Racial and Carceral Capitalism edited by Z. Zane McNeill
Wretched of the Earth by Frantz Fanon
Five Essays For Freedom by Kristy Alger
Antiracism in Animal Advocacy edited by Jasmin Singer
Veganism in an Oppressive World edited by Julia Feliz Brueck
Animal Rights and Human Rights: Entanglements of Oppression and Liberation by David Nibert
The Sexual Politics of Meat by Carol Adams
Food Justice: a Primer by Saryta Rodriguez
Farming While Black by Leah Penniman
ARTICLES
“4 Antidotes for Scarcity Mindset” by Yura Sapi
“Queering Animal Liberation: Lesbian communists are coming to take your fur coats...and they should”
Decolonizing Animal Welfare Through a Social Justice Framework by Mueni loko Rudd
Voices of the Movement: Toward an Equitable Farmed Animal Protection Movement, research report from Equity Based Dialogue for Inclusion and Encompass
Have feedback about the offerings on this page or want to recommend another resource? Please reach out to us below! We’d love to hear from you, especially if you learned something valuable and these resources supported your growth as an advocate and leader in the movement.