Lil BUB is a one of a kind space cat. Since landing on Earth, she's raised over $1,000,000 for homeless pets nationwide.

Lil BUB’s Big Fund exists to advocate for special needs companion animals and build a community that celebrates and fosters the human-animal bond. With a focus on animals that are the most difficult to adopt, the most expensive to care for, and are at a high risk of euthanasia. Lil BUB’s Big Fund provides grants to shelters nationwide and partners with shelters to create special needs foster program initiatives. We visit schools to promote kindness and inclusion. Through our work, we share BUB’s message of overcoming adversity and the knowledge that the things that make us different are worthy of being seen and appreciated.

Lil BUB's Big Fund

People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) is the largest animal rights organization in the world.

PETA focuses its attention on the four areas in which the largest numbers of animals suffer the most intensely for the longest periods of time: in laboratories, in the food industry, in the clothing trade, and in the entertainment industry.

PETA

Muttville is changing the way the world thinks about and treats older dogs.

Every day...
dogs in good health with wonderful personalities are euthanized. Why? Because they're older, and not considered adoptable. A dog is brought in because he can't jog with his guardian anymore. Or he needs a little time to get up the stairs. Or he’s simply not a puppy. In some cases, dogs are moved from loving homes to concrete cages because their guardians have died or simply can't care for them anymore.

We reach out to senior dogs at risk, give them the care they need, and find them loving forever homes. If we had our way, no dog would spend their last days in a shelter. There is so much love and joy in these dogs!

Muttville

Our mission is to change the world for the better for companion birds. 

Our mission is to change the world for the better for companion birds. We accomplish this by offering care, shelter and sanctuary to displaced birds, networking with other organizations to help even more birds, assisting families who live with companion birds who are experiencing difficulties, working with other organizations to improve quality of care in rescues, educating the public on living with companion birds and their unique and complex needs, and continually advocating for raising standards of care for all companion birds. 

Our current goals in progress include:

Adding additional industrial grade air cleaners to provide a healthier environment for the birds (in progress)
Finishing the aviary! (in progress, near completion – funded, waiting for bids on materials)
Dedicating space for a second Isolation Ward to allow more room to house the New Bern flock
Move and level outbuilding, wire for power, set up equipment for off-site food production for bio-security
Recruit more volunteers

Marden's Ark

The Wolf Conservation Center promotes wolf conservation by teaching about wolves, their relationship to the environment and the human role in protecting their future.

The Wolf Conservation Center (WCC) is a 501(c)(3) not-for-profit in South Salem, NY.   The WCC promotes wolf conservation by teaching about wolves, their relationship to the environment and the human role in protecting their future.

Wolf Conservation Center

To bring about a time when there are No More Homeless Pets.

National animal welfare organization working to end the killing in America's shelters. Together, we will Save Them All. www.bestfriends.org

Best Friends Animal Society

From rescue to recovery to adoption, the ASPCA is there for animals every step of the way. 

From rescue to recovery to adoption, the ASPCA is there for animals every step of the way. We pride ourselves in not just saving lives, but in changing them for the better—and none of it would be possible without the support of people like you. When you donate to the ASPCA today, you can help us continue to fight for animals on all fronts. Please make a gift right now.

ASPCA

Exists to end the greatest cause of suffering on the planet: the exploitation of animals for food.

Mercy For Animals exists to end the greatest cause of suffering on the planet: the exploitation of animals for food.

Mercy For Animals

Placing senior dogs in loving, home settings for the duration of their lives.

Our mission is: To provide a loving home, good food, high quality vet care, compassion and comfort to senior dogs for the remainder of their lives.  To build a ForeverFoster Home network to enable us to place more senior dogs in loving, home settings for the duration of their lives. To provide education on the joys and challenges of caring for aging dogs. 

Old Friends Senior Dog Sanctuary

The Philippine Animal Welfare Society (PAWS) is a volunteer-based, non-government organization whose goal is to prevent animal cruelty through education, animal sheltering and advocacy, based in Quezon City, Philippines.

PAWS also runs an animal shelter for over 300 cats and dogs rescued from cruelty or neglect. There, animals are rehabilitated in the hope of finding them new homes and a second chance at a good life.



There is also a low-cost clinic that provides veterinary services to the indigent community, including spay and neuter (kapon).



See more details: [About PAWS • The Philippine Animal Welfare Society](https://paws.org.ph/about-us/)

The Philippine Animal Welfare Society

C.A.R.E. - no-kill cage-free Sanctuary for abandoned cats & dogs in Southern California near Palmdale.   www.care4pets.org

Our mission is to shelter and provide the cats and dogs who have come under our stewardship with a quality life via spacious living quarters, good food, veterinary care, love and gentle handling regardless of age or health or handicaps. We strive to carefully seek new loving homes for all cats and dogs, provide quality lifetime care for those who are not yet adopted, support individuals who have rescued homeless dogs or cats, educate the public and pet owners about spay/neuter, behavioral counseling, counseling on any issues that might arise and public outreach toward a more loving, responsible and permanent relationship with pets. Without sanctuaries such as C.A.R.E.’s, and the commitment and generous support of individuals and organizations, the “Save Them All” movement would only be a sweet dream.  



C.A.R.E. aka: Cat/Canine Assistance, Referral & Education

To improve the welfare of animals in Asia, resulting in better lives for both the animal and human communities.

Soi Dog Foundation (Soi Dog) was established in 2003 in Phuket, Thailand, to help the street dogs and cats who had no-one else to care for them. Over 70,000 strays roamed the island, with the numbers growing alarmingly due to a lack of spay and neuter programmes to control the population. Soi Dog was created to provide a humane and sustainable solution to managing the stray population and to address their medical needs. Funding then, as it does now, came entirely from individuals who shared, and continue to share, the vision of our founders.



Soi Dog Foundation

Exists to eliminate animal suffering-Hunger & Disease in Rescued Cow sanctuaries & to support rescued farm animal cohabitants.

Exists to eliminate animal suffering-Hunger & Disease in Cow rescue sanctuaries. Farm animals especially cows/bulls that have been rescued from abuse, neglect, torture, exploitation in entertainment & dairy, and are unwanted, or born disabled may come from anywhere and receive life-time support.


Goshala-BJ & Animal Care

International nonprofit ending the abuse of animals raised for food.

The mission of The Humane League, why we exist, is to end the abuse of animals raised for food. This sense of purpose drives every action in our unrelenting march forward for animals.

The Humane League

Foundation's mission is to ensure wildlife and wild lands thrive in modern Africa.

African Wildlife Foundation's mission is to ensure wildlife and wild lands thrive in modern Africa.

African Wildlife Foundation

Natives in VetMed is a professional networking organization for Indigenous peoples within veterinary medicine. 

The mission of Natives in VetMed is to establish a safe space for Indigenous veterinary students and professionals to share their unique perspectives, experiences and knowledge. Our goal is to foster a community aimed at supporting Indigenous veterinary students and professionals navigate a predominantly white field and centralize veterinary-related opportunities to increase accessibility for Indigenous students. We hope to fulfill our mission statement and reach our goals with the values of encouraging peer support, open dialogue, and instilling pride in our members

Natives in VetMed

Saving dogs from a life of despair, every single day.

The mission of Dogs Deserve Better, Inc., is to provide a better life for abused, neglected and abandoned canines; especially those which are chained or penned …without human companionship. We strive to accomplish this through advocating for humane legislation; promoting spay and neuter; educating communities on animal welfare; and rescuing and rehabilitating distressed canines.

Dogs Deserve Better

Uniting all Americans to ensure wildlife thrive in a rapidly changing world.

America’s experience with cherished landscapes and wildlife has helped define and shape our national character and identity for generations. Protecting these natural resources is a cause that has long united Americans from all walks of life and political stripes. To hunters, anglers, hikers, birders, wildlife watchers, boaters, climbers, campers, cyclists, gardeners, farmers, forest stewards, and other outdoor enthusiasts, this conservation ethic represents a sacred duty and obligation to protect and build upon our conservation heritage for the sake of wildlife, ourselves, our neighbors, and—most of all—for future generations.

National Wildlife Federation

To instill a sense of wonder, respect, and stewardship for the Pacific Ocean, its inhabitants, and ecosystems.

We are a non-profit 501(c)3 organization which depends on your support to fulfill our mission: to instill a sense of wonder, respect, and stewardship for the Pacific Ocean, its inhabitants, and ecosystems.

Aquarium of the Pacific

Working to save the endangered snow leopard.

With your help, we protect the endangered snow leopard. Visit www.snowleopard.org to learn more!

Snow Leopard Trust

Our mission is to inspire conservation of the ocean.

Monterey Bay Aquarium

Corporation dedicated to humanely reducing cat overpopulation by educating the public about the need to sterilize their pets and strays; providing access to low-cost spay/neuter services for stray, homeless and abandoned cats; helping members in their efforts to place adoptable cats in loving homes;and advocating non-lethal population control and humane public policy.

The Cat Network, Inc. (CN) is a 501(c)3, Florida not-for-profit corporation dedicated to humanely reducing cat overpopulation by educating the public about the ...need to sterilize their pets and strays; providing access to low-cost spay/neuter services for stray, homeless and abandoned cats; helping members in their efforts to place adoptable cats in loving homes;and advocating non-lethal population control and humane public policy. See More

The Cat Network,Inc

CETI is a nonprofit org applying advanced machine learning and gentle robotics to listen to and translate whale communication. 

Founded in 2020 as a TED Audacious Project, the organization’s science team is made up of the world's leading artificial intelligence and natural language processing experts, marine biologists, cryptographers, linguists, roboticists and underwater acousticians. CETI’s research is taking place off of the island of Dominica in the Caribbean.

In the late 1960s, scientists, including Dr. Roger Payne, a principal advisor of CETI, discovered that whales sing to one another. His recordings, Songs of the Humpback Whale, sparked the “Save the Whales” movement, one of the most successful conservation initiatives in history. The campaign eventually led to the Marine Mammal Protection Act that marked the end of large-scale whaling and saved several whale populations from extinction. 

All this by just hearing the sounds of whales. Imagine what would happen if we could understand them?

WHY WHALES 
Sperm whales specifically share traits strikingly similar to humans. They live in matriarchal and multicultural societies and share dialects and strong multigenerational family bonds. Sperm whales have the largest brains of any species and have higher-level functions such as conscious thought and future planning, as well as speech and feelings of compassion, love, suffering and intuition. Their vocalizations, among the loudest animal sounds on the planet, have a Morse code-like structure that shares the hallmarks of a highly-evolved language. Our understanding of these animals and their dialects is still in its infancy. Only in the last fifteen years have we begun to learn how some of their vocalizations are used for communication.  
WHAT CETI IS DOING
CETI is:
-Developing non-invasive robotics to listen to a population of whales in the Caribbean and put their sounds into context.
-Deploying a “Core Whale Listening System,” an innovative hydrophone array, underwater robotic gliders, custom bioinspired whale tags and other technology to gently study the whales.
-Building on substantial data on the whales’ sounds, social lives, and behavior already obtained by the Dominica Sperm Whale Project. 
-Creating a bespoke, big-data pipeline to examine the recorded data and decode it using advanced machine learning, natural language processing and data science.
-Publishing a series of academic papers beginning with the CETI roadmap.
-Collaborating with the National Geographic Society, including their Exploration Technology Lab, and amplifying the project across National Geographic’s storytelling and education channels.
-Implementing community-based programs like the Dominica Marine Conservation Fellowship, a community-based 10-month multi- module training program for young Dominicans interested in marine science, that was developed in partnership with National Geographic.
-Launching various communications projects to tell CETI’s story including a public interface for the citizen science community, resources for educators and children and arts programs.

IMPACT
Now, for the first time in history, it’s possible to use artificial intelligence to identify and interpret deep structure within animal communication. Using these technologies, CETI is building on the legacy of the “Save the Whales” movement with the goal of having an impact by contributing the following:
Interspecies Communication - A new data set of unprecedented size to the rapidly expanding field of interspecies communication and a roadmap of how humans could translate the communication of any other species
Marine Biology - A substantive contribution to the field of whale research within marine biology that opens gateways for future research initiatives. 
Policy - New information about whales that can bolster policy efforts to protect marine mammals and ocean habitats. Policy advances in this area are crucial as six out of the 13 “great” whale species (the largest whales) are still endangered (World Wildlife Federation). To ensure impact in this area, CETI plans to build out policy campaigns and initiatives. 
Perspective - It is widely endorsed that connectivity with nature can improve mental health. By sharing its journey and findings with the public, CETI hopes to contribute to a feeling of increased wonder and connectedness to whales and the ocean that can inspire action. CETI will build out arts and childrens’ initiatives in support of this impact goal.
Conservation - CETI’s first phase of research is taking place in Dominica in the Caribbean, a region that is one of the world’s greatest centers of diversity. By carrying out its research in partnership with local stakeholders, CETI hopes to contribute to regionally-led research and conservation efforts.

HOW CETI IS SUPPORTING DOMINICA
-CETI’s capacity-building initiative, Dominica Marine Conservation Fellowship is a 10-month, nine module training program for young Dominicans interested in marine science) in partnership with National Geographic.  The program has three 2022/2023 fellows and partnerships with the Dominica National Youth Council, Dominica State College and Dominica’s Ministry of Education. The program’s curriculum (co-created with National Geographic) includes modules on marine science, scientific research/techniques, water and vessel skills and storytelling and leadership among other topics.
-All research and findings by CETI in Dominica are all open-source and will be available for Dominica. The organization’s sailing research vessel (CETI-1), a Rigid Inflatable Boat (CETI-2) and Dominican made boat (CETI-3) are in operation in Dominican waters; these boats along with other CETI equipment will be donated to the local entity at the completion of the project.
-A temporary field station has been established in Dominica and has the capacity to host 10-12 researchers, fellows and students. In the long-term, CETI plans to build a permanent field station in Dominica 
-In 2023, CETI will continue local engagement and presentations with primary and secondary schools, development of video content for use in classrooms, collaborations with local artists and collaborations with local stakeholders such as marine and dive operators, civil society organizations and schools.



Project CETI

We rescue animals from severe abuse and neglect. Through interaction with our animals, children learn reverence for all life.

We live in a concrete, violent, noisy, high tech, busy world. We have lost our connection to animals, to nature, and most of all, to ourselves. Animals are living lives of torment from beginning to end, their cries are unheard, their pain is unseen, and they are suffering. The rate of heart disease, cancer, obesity, and diabetes has never been higher. The rain forests are being destroyed, we are in a global drought, we are polluting our air, and species go extinct every day. But by having reverence for all life and by reconnecting with Mother Earth we each can change all that. At The Gentle Barn we stand up for the innocent, and we help animals and children alike remember that they matter. We open people’s hearts to the connections with nature. We open people’s minds to what is happening around us. And we inspire people to be an integral part of the solution. Through the stories and interactions with our animals, we can raise future generations to have reverence for all life, protect our planet, live good healthy, happy lives, and we will all be closer to having peace on earth!

We can’t do this work without you and are grateful for your support. Enjoy the website and check back with us from time to time to see what's new. The best way to help is by making a donation, sponsoring an animal or sponsoring a group of school kids, at-risk kids or special-needs kids to come to The Gentle Barn.

Thank you so much for your support! 

The Gentle Barn

The vision of Ducks Unlimited is wetlands sufficient to fill the skies with waterfowl today, tomorrow and forever.

As the world's leader in wetlands and waterfowl conservation, Ducks Unlimited conserves, restores, and manages wetlands and associated habitats for North America's waterfowl. These habitats also benefit other wildlife and people.

Waterfowl conservation is facing important challenges as wetlands and other habitats are being degraded and destroyed across the continent. Ducks Unlimited has a vision to reverse this trend.

Ducks Unlimited will achieve our vision through diverse public and private partnerships to address the full range of factors that continue to erode waterfowl habitat across North America.

DU got its start in 1937 during the Dust Bowl when North America's drought-plagued waterfowl populations had plunged to unprecedented lows. 

Determined not to sit idly by as the continent's waterfowl dwindled beyond recovery, a small group of sportsmen joined together to form an organization that became known as Ducks Unlimited.

Thanks to decades of abiding by that single mission, Ducks Unlimited is now the world's largest and most effective private waterfowl and wetlands conservation organization. 

DU is able to multilaterally deliver its work through a series of partnerships with private individuals, landowners, agencies, scientific communities and other entities.

Ducks Unlimited

Aquatic Life Institute is a 501(c)(3) non-profit focused on reducing the suffering of aquatic animals in the global food system.

Aquatic Life Institute was formed to specifically advance animal welfare for the nearly 500 billion farmed fish and shrimp, and 2-3 trillion wild aquatic animals in the global food system. 

At Aquatic Life Institute www.ali.fish we dedicate all of our expertise and energy to ensuring high impact results, and long-lasting positive change for aquatic animals. 

We operate in three primary program areas:
1) Coalitions: we are the hub for over 115 NGOs and stakeholders leveraging collective action
2) Seafood Certifier Campaign: Working with the world's largest seafood certifiers to strengthen standards for billions of aquatic animals every year
3) Policy Pursuits: working at the international and national government level to advance protections for aqua

Aquatic Life Institute Inc

Our mission (and passion) is helping shelters & rescues find loving adopters for homeless pets!

We’re North America’s largest non-profit pet adoption website. We're on a mission to help homeless pets find loving homes. #adoptapet

Adopt-a-Pet.com

Save as many German Shepherds as we can and show people there is no need to breed and buy puppies. It doesn't matter where they come from they are all special.

Westside German Shepherd Rescue of Los Angeles is a 501(c)3  non profit, no-kill rescue committed to saving all types of German Shepherd Dogs from high kill shelters and adopting them to loving, qualified homes.Visit: www.sheprescue.org today!

Westside German Shepherd Rescue of Los Angeles

Join us and let's put an end to the government's cruel, expensive and ineffective wild horse program.

The American Wild Horse Campaign (AWHC) is dedicated to preserving the American wild horse in viable free-roaming herds for generations to come, as part of our national heritage.

American Wild Horse Campaign

We connect rescue cats with families through our cat lounge & educate the community through classes/workshops in our event space.

Gem City Kitties

Promoting Education, Advocacy and Responsible Guardianship on Behalf of Pit Bull Type Dogs and Their Guardians.

The mission of Love-A-Bull is to promote responsible guardianship and improve the image and lives of pit bull type dogs through community support, education, advocacy, and rescue.

Love-A-Bull

SOS is a registered Non Profit Charity in India, USA and UK.

All of us have one life, and it’s not very long. In the short period that we have, each one of us must make a difference! All along, mankind has exploited wildlife, forests and natural resources in the name of development and growth. It’s now time for us to give something back to nature. Our motto is “Give Back To Nature”. With your support we can help wildlife in the fight for survival.

Wildlife S.O.S

Share your zoo photos and stories with us, plus get the inside scoop on zoo animals and happenings.

Woodland Park Zoo

At International Animal Rescue we do much more than our name suggests. We not only save animals from suffering, we also rehabilitate and release them back into the wild, as well as working to protect their precious natural habitats. We also provide a safe haven for life for animals that can no longer fend for themselves. In all that we do, we work to find practical solutions that benefit both animals and people.

International Animal Rescue

Animal Charity Evaluators helps people help the most animals.

Animal Charity Evaluators (ACE) is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit registered in the United States with a globally distributed team dedicated to impactful animal advocacy. Our mission is to find and promote the most effective ways to help animals. We work toward that mission by evaluating charities, sharing our findings, awarding grants to organizations and promising projects, and fundraising for our recommended charities and grantees. Our organization opposes all systems of oppression and recognizes that they are connected and mutually reinforcing. Ultimately, our vision is a world in which no individual is given less than full moral consideration on the basis of any morally irrelevant feature of their identity, including species membership.

ACE is proud to be considered a leader in the effective animal advocacy movement. Our research comparing the different approaches to reducing the suffering of animals has led to rigorously reviewing charities that work to end factory farming and create meaningful change for farmed and wild animals. Through our Recommend Charity Fund, we have raised and distributed $8.1M to our effective recommended charities. Our Movement Grants program has awarded $5.3M to promising animal advocacy projects around the globe. Since we began tracking this metric in 2014, we estimate that ACE has helped to influence nearly $60M within the animal advocacy movement.

Thanks for helping ACE help animals!

Animal Charity Evaluators

To protect the lives and advance the interests of animals through the legal system.

Help ALDF grow by telling your friends why you support the Animal Legal Defense Fund! http://aldf.org/share  See our social media commenting policies at http://aldf.org/socialmedia

Animal Legal Defense Fund

Spearhead lifesaving initiatives and assist grassroot animal activists worldwide.

Advance the safety and well-being of animals. Through outreach, rescue and educational programs SPCA International spearheads lifesaving initiatives and assists grassroots animal activists worldwide. 

SPCA International

Working within communities, supporting change, and inviting healing through the human and animal bond.


At Four Winds Connections ​we assist in cultivating meaningful relationships between people and dogs.

Four Winds Connections is a new non-profit organization. We are excited to partner and collaborate with marginalized and underserved communities to redefine what support of pet owners looks like and addressing the wellbeing of the human-animal bond. Our work honors and strives to support the wellbeing of both owners and pets in their care.   We are so excited to share this journey with those who want to learn more and get involved in the work we do. We'd love to hear from you!

About the founders:

Shahar Fearing
After starting her Dog Training Career in the world of Assistance Dogs, training mobility, hearing, facility and psychiatric service dogs, Shahar established a private practice that focused on deepening and nurturing the relationships between people and the dogs in their care. Witnessing the healing and growth that comes from a better understanding of animal behavior and incorporating training into daily practices, is what inspires Shahar to continue and grow her work. FWCC was born to address the need to make the world of dog behavior and this magical experience of what is possible when training is applied in a good way, accessible to ALL communities and their members.

Marilou Chanrasmi
Marilou is a certified somatics coach, mindfulness and qigong practitioner and an experienced facilitator of circles. She is a founding member of Deep Listening for Social Change/DLSC a peaceful action group that was formed by members of the Twin Cities BIPOC mindfulness community in response to the murder of George Floyd in 2020. Marilou is a survivor of sexual abuse and partner violence. Her healing journey from her addiction to alcohol and struggles with depression began in 1988 with the unplanned arrival of her first dog into her life. Her best medicine and teacher arrived in the body of an 8 week old black cocker spaniel puppy. She attributes her decades of sobriety to her dog. Marilou is committed to creating and holding safe and brave spaces where we allow wounded parts of ourselves to be seen, heard and held, and where we can collectively and lovingly support each other and make room for healing, joy and aliveness.

Collaborations
We are so fortunate to be partnering and collaborating with amazing organizations and individuals as we launch our first project "Fostering Healing".
​
Irene Churchill -
​A justice-oriented Indigenous provider of Sugpiat and Anishinaabe lineage. Irene is a certified therapist with experience working alongside other Indigenous community members as well as QTBIPOC folks, complex and developmental trauma, grief, self-esteem, depression, anxiety, attachment, racial trauma and oppression, and somatic work

​Carrie Oppenshaw with The Bond Between
Carrie is the Director of Community Engagement. She loves meeting new people and their pets. She centers her focus on finding creative ways to support pet owners in under-serviced communities.

Jacob is Director of Development & Communications at Women’s Advocates, a domestic violence shelter in St. Paul, Minnesota. He came to nonprofit management following many years in academia, the last five spent studying and working with LGBTQ+ activists in Pune, India. During the pandemic, he became the proud owner of a 3 year old cattle dog mix named Gumbo.

Stacy Bridavsky - 
Stacy is the Executive Director of Lil BUB's Big FUND, the first national nonprofit focused on special needs pets. Her work centers around advocating for those animals most often overlooked while working to protect and preserve the human-animal bond. Stacy and the BUB Fund are proud to support Four Winds Canine Connections as they believe this work is an integral piece of protecting and preserving the human animal-bond nationwide.

Four Winds Connections

We fight the big fights to end suffering for all animals.

Together with millions of supporters, we take on puppy mills, factory farms, the fur trade, trophy hunting, animal cosmetics testing and other cruel industries. We rescue and care for thousands of animals every year through our Animal Rescue Team’s work and other hands-on animal care services. We fight all forms of animal cruelty to achieve the vision behind our name: A humane society. 

The Humane Society of the United States

My Dog Is My Home's mission is to increase access to shelter and housing for people experiencing homelessness with animals.

My Dog Is My Home is a national nonprofit dedicated to increasing access to shelter and housing for people experiencing homelessness with companion animals. By securing their ability to maintain their most important relationships and find adequate shelter, we ensure every family’s right to build a home.

We assist service providers like homeless shelters in expanding their programming to allow humans and their companion animals to remain together. My Dog Is My Home’s programs currently fall into three categories: storytelling, community building, and technical assistance.

STORYTELLING
Storytelling is at the foundation of our work. We believe that people who are impacted by the problem are necessarily close to the solution. My Dog Is My Home provides a platform for people with actual lived experience of homelessness and animal companionship to share in their own words how co-sheltering people and animals together contributes to ending homelessness. Through exhibitions, speaking events, and video or narrated images, we are able to educate members of the public, program administrators, and policymakers about preserving the human-animal bond in circumstances of homelessness.

COMMUNITY BUILDING
We believe in the mantra that we are “stronger together.” My Dog Is My Home holds space for members of the homeless services and animal welfare communities to come together to connect, learn from one another, and solve mutual problems. Most notably, our community building efforts have created two related but distinct stakeholder watering holes: 

1) Annual Co-Sheltering Conference
Since 2021, My Dog Is My Home’s annual conference has drawn 400-500 people together from across disciplines to hear from homeless shelter programs about co-
sheltering models in practice, latest research in homelessness and animal companionship, and relevant policy efforts across the US and globally.

2) Co-Sheltering Collaborative
The Co-Sheltering Collaborative is a peer-to-peer learning network with membership that
spans across animal welfare and homeless services. This Collaborative meets as a large group on a quarterly basis to exchange resources, troubleshoot, and hear presentations from members on the progress of their work. In between large group meetings, working groups meet to produce deliverables that work towards collectively developed goals. The Collaborative also provides a sustained community for attendees of the annual conference.

TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE
My Dog Is My Home also works with homeless shelters that need more hands-on assistance with developing or implementing co-sheltering. We provide customized training, consultation on policies, and resource coordination to ensure a successful co-sheltering program.

My Dog Is My Home

Innovate Animal Ag facilitates the development and adoption of new technologies that improve animal health and welfare


Innovate Animal Ag is a 501(c)3 nonprofit think tank that promotes technology as a practical way to solve the biggest challenges in farmed animal welfare. We conduct and publish research on cutting edge technologies in animal agriculture that improve farmed animal welfare and also offer concrete benefits to farmers. We then facilitate the adoption of these technologies through directly working with agricultural producers that are interested in better meeting the demands of the modern consumer.

Technology is powerful because it eliminates tradeoffs - it can allow us to continually improve the lives that animals live on farm, while protecting the livelihoods of farmers and maintaining the abundance of our food system.

Our Philosophy:
The last few decades of industrialization in animal agriculture have led to an unprecedented period of abundance in our food system. More people than ever have access to a practically unlimited supply of affordable, safe, and nutritious animal protein.

Yet this abundance hasn’t come without costs. Most people in our society care about the welfare of animals, and polls consistently show that Americans want animals on farms to be handled respectfully and responsibly. Yet when informed of practices that are commonplace on industrial farms, a vast majority of people express discomfort. Peoples’ assumptions and expectations around animal welfare are often disappointed by the realities of how animal agriculture currently works.

As a result, our society has had to start grappling with how to navigate the tradeoff between maintaining a safe, affordable, nutritious supply of animal protein, and maintaining the respect and care that everyone believes animals deserve. Heated debates have started within businesses, in our government, and in the media. With vociferous advocates on both sides, the conversation has become polarized, being too often framed as activists versus farmers, welfare versus affordability. 

We believe that the best solution is not to choose either animal welfare or an abundant food supply, but to leverage technology to have both.

The Lessons of Climate Tech:
The challenge of climate change is remarkably similar to the challenge of animal welfare. To use the language of economists, both are unpriced externalities: unplanned consequences of industrialization whose costs are not directly paid by producers or consumers, and hence are not inherently incentivized to be improved. No one wants the climate to change, yet it happens anyways. Similarly, no one wants a farm animal to be treated poorly, yet it happens anyways.

When it comes to climate change, the most promising practical solutions are technologies like solar panels, electric vehicles, improved batteries, and carbon capture. These technologies are powerful because they eliminate tradeoffs - they allow us to maintain the prosperity brought about by economic growth, while simultaneously mitigating the harms of climate change. 

Despite the similarities with the climate space, technology is an under discussed and underinvested in as a solution to animal welfare. Information is often difficult to impossible to find, and few champions actively push solutions forward. 

Our mission is to change this. Instead of continuing to grapple with how much we as individual consumers or business are willing to personally sacrifice for animal welfare, we can use technology to eliminate the tradeoff. By expanding what’s possible, technology allows us to preserve the abundance brought about by industrialized animal agriculture, while simultaneously bringing animal welfare in line with the expectations and demands of the modern consumer. 

Our Work:
Innovate Animal Ag was founded with the goal of helping companies develop and commercialize technologies that help meet the expectations and demands of the modern consumer around animal welfare. We do this by:
- Promoting technology as a practical solution to animal welfare
- Conducting research on cutting edge, science-backed, technologies in animal agriculture, then creating resources for businesses, policymakers, and the media
- Directly supporting the companies developing and implementing the most promising technologies, such as in-ovo sexing

Innovate Animal Ag

Support highly-impactful, evidence-based solutions to reduce animal suffering on a global scale. 

At least 75 billion farmed land animals and more than a trillion fish are slaughtered each year. That is more than 2000 land animals and 25,000 fish are killed every second. This is possible due to the mechanization and intensification of factory farming, driven by global increase in demand for meat.

Although this situation seems bleak - and the numbers almost too large to comprehend - there are reasons to be hopeful. Recent years have seen rapid progress in the animal welfare movement. Many large companies have pledged to phase out or drastically reduce some of their industry’s most harmful practices. Governments have banned some of these practices outright. And companies working to commercialize alternative proteins, such as plant-based meats, have raised billions of dollars from investors. Yet farm animal welfare remains highly neglected, with just 0.03% of US philanthropic funding going to this cause in 2017. 

By giving to the Founders Pledge Animal Welfare Index, you can spread your donation across several highly-impactful and neglected global initiatives to alleviate suffering and improve the conditions of factory-farmed animals. By pooling your donations, this Index fund allows you to make larger grants and thereby maximize your impact.

### Our Approach to Grantmaking
When evaluating potential grants, we consider several key points:

- **Counterfactual impact.** Our grants are designed to create a meaningful outcome that would not otherwise have happened. This means that you can rely on the Funds to create meaningful, real change, rather than just maintaining the status quo.
- **Impact-driven philanthropy.** The goal of this fund is maximal positive impact, irrespective of this impact being “sexy” or visible. This means we will focus on opportunities that others focused on clear attribution of their work or shiny outcomes might neglect.
- **The organization’s funding gap.** Not all organizations are set up to scale up their programming and many can’t productively absorb large amounts of unsolicited funding. We evaluate all potential grantees’ capacity for growth and consider how much money they could put to good use.
- **Organizational strength.** Particularly with unrestricted funding, it’s important to have trust in the leadership and capacity of the organizations we support. We look at their track record of success and their transparency about failures as well as successes, and we only support those organizations which are exceptionally well run.


To learn more about our approach to Animal Welfare as a cause area, please visit [www.founderspledge.com](https://www.founderspledge.com/research/topic/animal-welfare).

Founders Pledge: Animal Welfare Index

A place of refuge for abused and neglected farmed animals. By connecting our rescued residents with individuals through our education and outreach programs, we inspire people to adopt a more compassionate lifestyle, thus sparing countless more lives.

We are working to provide exceptional lifelong social, emotional, and cognitive care to rescued farmed animals, and to advocate for those who have not been rescued by sharing our residents’ stories to inspire, educate, and empower others to embrace a more compassionate and sustainable lifestyle.

Our vision is to create a sanctuary of inspiration and connection where people are empowered to create change that leads to more compassionate choices for themselves, for the planet, and justice for all beings. ➡️ https://luvinarms.org/

Luvin Arms Animal Sanctuary

We work with businesses to implement and maintain high animal welfare and responsible sourcing policies.

Global Food Partners Inc

Animal Equality

http://redpandanetwork.org info@redpandanetwork.org  Help us protect wild red pandas and their forest habitat.

Red Panda Network

FWI reduces the suffering of farmed fish by researching and executing evidence-based interventions in high-priority contexts.

The mission of Fish Welfare Initiative (FWI) is to reduce the suffering of farmed fish as much as possible. We do that specifically by researching and testing evidence-based welfare interventions, and then implementing them in high priority contexts. Our main implementation program right now focuses on collaborative farmer outreach in India to improve water quality and reduce stocking densities. As of this writing, this program currently works with about 100 farms (www.fwi.fish/farmers). FWI also invests significantly in research to identify and test more promising welfare improvements (www.fwi.fish/post/rnd-plans-2024).

Thanks to the support of all those who have donated, as of this writing FWI estimates that we have improved the lives of about 1.5M fish. You can learn more about our impact and how we came up with these numbers at www.fwi.fish/impact.

To learn more about our work, you can subscribe to our monthly in-depth newsletter at www.fwi.fish/news.

To learn about the value of a donation to FWI, as well as its pros and cons, see www.fwi.fish/donate.

Fish Welfare Initiative

BLLAR is an all-volunteer organization, with a mission of rescuing stray, abandoned & abused animals from shelters and the streets

Big Little Life Rescue is an all-volunteer, non-profit 501 (c3) organization, with a mission of rescuing stray, abandoned, and abused animals. Our goal is to seek out the most desperate situations for these animals locally and internationally. 
We aim to provide shelter, conduct TNVR (Trap/Neuter/Vaccinate/Release) programs, rehabilitation, medical treatment, foster care, and forever homes. We also believe in community education and increasing public awareness on the importance of excellent preventative health practice and population/disease control with sterilization and vaccination. 
Our group came together after years of volunteering in other organizations individually and a common life-long, deep love and respect for animals. Each of us see animals as beautiful, sentient beings, who are capable of unconditional love and acceptance. We believe that animals can feel and have complex experiences. We also believe that every animal deserves respect and kindness, no matter where they are located. To us, all lives are deserving of this - big or small. 
Our dream is to see the world with no stray animals. 
Until our dream comes true, we are committed to give every animal in our path a chance to be safe, to heal, and to know love. Big Little Life Animal Rescue depends solely on donations to continue its work. 
We are all professionals and animal lovers, based in MA, NY, ME, and PA, with full-time jobs, families, and pets, united by commitment to animal rescue.

Big Little Life Animal Rescue International Inc

We're dedicated to improving the welfare of animals raised for food & educating the public about the issues with factory farming. 

Crate Free USA is dedicated to reducing the suffering of animals on factory farms. Our approach includes consumer activism, retail campaigns, and public policy advocacy.

Through our efforts we aim to: create awareness of the extreme and inhumane confinement of food animals on factory farms; educate consumers on how to remove meat from their diet or reduce the meat they consume and know where to purchase factory-free meat, dairy and eggs; and advocate for legislation to eliminate extreme confinement practices

Crate Free USA

Animal Ask supports organisations with in-depth research towards the most promising opportunities for animals.

Strong campaigns have the potential to affect many more individuals, better improve their quality of life, are more easily achievable or have a significantly stronger evidence base. Under-researched campaigns can have no, or a negative, effect.

Research is essential to making well informed decisions about where your limited resource should be spent. We support organisations in prioritising between the opportunities available in order to increase the effectiveness of movement-wide efforts.

Animal Ask is a project of Charity Entrepreneurship operating through a fiscal sponsorship with Players Philanthropy Fund (Federal Tax ID: 27-6601178), a Maryland charitable trust with federal tax-exempt status as a public charity under Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code. Contributions to Animal Ask are tax-deductible to the fullest extent of the law.

Animal Ask

Founders Pledge is a global nonprofit empowering entrepreneurs to do the most good possible with their charitable giving. 

We equip members with everything needed to maximize their impact, from evidence-led research and advice on the world’s most pressing problems, to comprehensive infrastructure for global grant-making, alongside opportunities to learn and connect. We’re grateful to be funded by our members and other generous donors. 