Our Programs
animal welare FUND
We created and ran Adopt-a-Pet.com until September 2021, and while we no longer run Adopt-a-Pet.com, we manage the Animal Welfare Fund to provide grants directly to the most impactful or needy nonprofit animal shelters, rescues or sanctuary organizations to support their work to promote humane treatment of animals, rescue and rehabilitate, find lasting and loving homes or provide a safe haven for animals in need.
See our past grant recipients.
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Donations made to the Animal Welfare fund are tax deductible click the donate button below to be taken to a secure payment page. On behalf of the animals and the people who support them, thank you!
Applications applications are being accepted for grant awards in June 2024. The deadline to submit an application is June 13, 2024.
Farm Animal welfare and food sysTem transformation
Animal consumption in the human food system has risen dramatically over the last 100 years, and its growth continues to accelerate, particularly in developing nations. This has been made possible by intensification of animal agriculture on what is called “factory farms”, where animals are raised or held in unnaturally close quarters, and subject to inhumane procedures and living conditions. This has had dramatic negative consequences for animal welfare, but also for humans.
A majority of antibiotics used today are fed to animals kept in these unnatural conditions and this is leading to dangerous antibiotic resistance that is putting the entire human health system in danger. This is in addition to the well-documented negative human health effects of consuming large amounts of animal protein, which leads to the major (and preventable) causes of death for people including heart disease and cancer. There are other societal costs for this system, including intense pollution for communities who live in close proximity to these factory farms (also called Concentrated Animal feeding Operations or CAFOs), and worker safety and mental health issues.
Animal agriculture is also a major cause of green house gasses which are driving global warming and threatening the stability of the natural systems that support all human and animal life on the planet itself.
Through our Food System Innovations program, we work to support the reduction/elimination of animals in the human food system by:
Assisting key organizations set more strategic impact goals and be more effective in how they reach them
Advising major donors/investors to make sure that the most impactful efforts get the funding they need
Facilitating research that fills key knowledge gaps.
Generally working to promote farm animal welfare.
Food System Research Fund
We support academic research through our Food System Research Fund granting program. The program seeks to fund projects whose learnings will inform actions designed to speed a transition of the food system to one that does not rely on animals.
supporting organizations internationally to reduce/remove animals from the human food system
We identify and make grants to particularly impactful organizations and programs in underserved countries around the world.
Strategic consulting for nonprofits
We speak at events and provide assistance to leadership at nonprofits who wish to have their organizations become more effective.
guiding major funders
We research and identify other NGOs and programs we think are in need of support, and encourage funders to support them. If you are philanthropist, you can learn more here.
Past Programs
We created Adopt-a-Pet.com and it’s Rehome program and ran them until 2021, growing them to the point that they reached millions of people each month. If you did not adopt one of your own companion animals from Adopt-a-Pet.com, it is very likely someone you know did. These programs have helped over 19,000 animal shelters, humane societies, SPCA’s and pet rescue organizations. And we were proud to be recognized as number 15 on the best non-profits to work for list by TheNonProfitTimes.
We also created a temporary natural disaster pet fostering website called DisplacedPaws, and a system that can be activated as needed for reporting pets in need during disasters called Rescue My Animal.