ACE Highlight: Volunteering Advice
This blog post is a part of our ACE Highlight series, where we feature current, relevant, and engaging topics from the ACE website. We have recently updated our page on Volunteering Advice to feature a...
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Vegfests: The Importance of Professionalism
Credit: Compassionate Action for Animals under CC BY 2.0 Animal advocates can be a particularly passionate group of people. In many ways that is a good thing, as passion can fuel the drive necessary to...
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Advocacy Advice Month Retrospective
We have received constructive feedback that we might focus too much on directing donations to our top charities, and that we have room to improve in our quest to improve the general state of animal...
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Easy Ways to Volunteer Effectively
“How can I help animals effectively as a volunteer?” This is one of our most frequently asked questions. As with our advice to donors, we recommend that volunteers focus on where they can make the...
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Writing a Competitive Research Grant Proposal
This post outlines some tips for writing a competitive research grant proposal. The content is tailored primarily for those preparing proposals for the Animal Advocacy Research Fund, but should...
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Animal Advocacy Lessons from the 2016 Democratic National Convention
Guest post by Adam Shriver There have been many signs of progress in our society’s treatment of animals in recent years. The NIH announced it would be ending almost all research with chimpanzees....
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Volunteer Effectively
As part of our Advocacy Advice month, we’d like to announce that we have recently updated our Volunteer Effectively page. If you currently volunteer or are considering dedicating some of your time to...
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Strategic Advocacy Course
Strategic Advocacy: What It Is, Why It’s Important, and How It Can Help Your Organization to Be More Effective for Animals Guest post by Janice Cox World Animal Net (WAN) believes that effective...
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Roundtable: How Can Remote Organizations Effectively Hire and Onboard New...
This is part one in a series of roundtable posts about remote organizational culture. You can find the second part of this series here. Introduction ACE considers healthy organizational culture to be a...
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Roundtable: How Can Remote Employees Maintain a Healthy Work-Life Balance?
This is part two in a series of roundtable posts about remote organizational culture. You can find the first part of this series here. Introduction ACE considers healthy organizational culture to be a...
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Roundtable: How Can Remote Organizations Foster Employee Engagement?
This is part three in a series of roundtable posts about remote organizational culture. You can find the other parts of this series here and here. Introduction ACE considers healthy organizational...
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Roundtable: How Can Organizations Responsibly Expand Internationally?
In our roundtable blog series, we ask a handful of contributors to provide their points of view on complex topics or unsettled questions. We hope that this approach will help us to integrate and learn...
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Advice for Advocates The animal advocacy movement is seeing an increase in the number of organizations working to tackle farmed and wild animal issues. The variety and scope of ways to get involved are...
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Roundtable: How Can Advocates Manage or Avoid Compassion Fatigue?
Introduction In our Roundtable blog series, we ask a handful of contributors to provide their points of view on complex topics or unsettled questions. We hope this approach will help us integrate and...
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Crossroads Series: What lessons can animal advocates learn from other social...
Introduction Social movements are responsible for some of the most powerful changes around the world. From gender and racial equity to voter and LGBTQ+ rights, social movements have the ability to...
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Crossroads Series: What Can Animal Advocates Learn from the Environmental...
Introduction Over the last few decades, climate change has received increased recognition and importance from scientists and decision-makers around the world. This reflects the severity of the problem...
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Animal Rights Movement: Understanding When and Why It Started
Image description: A beige and black sheep looks up at a human hand. Credit: Magda Ehlers/Pexels Introduction The animal rights movement has progressed with time, reflecting our growing knowledge of...
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Vegan Diet 101: Benefits and Resources to Get Started
As the popularity of veganism continues to rise,1 more and more people are discovering the delicious and diverse array of plant-based foods. The once-common misconception that vegan diets are bland...
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Lessons from a New Wave of Pro-Animal Ballot Initiatives
This is a guest blog post. All opinions are that of the guest blogger. The year 2024 saw a resurgence in the United States in the use of ballot initiatives by farmed animal advocates. In Sonoma County,...
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