Deadline: 10-Mar-23
Proveg Grants is now open to fund vegan advocacy and meat reduction efforts.
ProVeg Grants offers funding to diet-change organizations and projects, aligning with ProVeg‘s mission to reduce the global consumption of animals by 50% by the year 2040.
Eligible Proposal Categories:
- Corporate and Institutional Outreach
- Examples: School or university catering programs, corporate rankings, launching the V-Label, and similar
- Research or Public Policy
- Example: Transforming national dietary guidelines, academic research, supporting the development of plant-forward policies nationally, and similar
- Large-Scale Public Awareness
- Examples: 30-day vegan challenges, major public awareness campaigns, awareness programs targeting influential professionals, major media campaigns, and similar
- Events
- Examples: Organizing conferences, vegfests, medical panels, summits, and similar
- Other Advocacy
- Unmet regional niches, movement-building, DEI work, or other effective advocacy that falls outside these categories
- Unrestricted General Operating Support
- For organizations with a track record of success in vegan advocacy and other alternative protein advocacy work
Funding Information
- ProVeg Grants offers financial support between $5,000 – $30,000 per year, as well as tailored support from ProVeg International’s Intervention Experts. The previous Effective Vegan Advocacy (EVA) Grants will no longer be running as a separate program under this name, but those eligible for a ProVeg Grant are welcome to apply.
They are currently prioritizing
- Proposals from outside the United Kingdom, Germany, Netherlands, Poland, South Africa, Spain, Belgium, United States
- Organizations that are led by and meaningfully employ women, people of colour, and other marginalized persons
- Projects that are evidence-based with measurable results.
Criteria
- They support organizations and individuals that:
- Work towards ProVeg International’s mission to reduce the global consumption of animals by 50% by the year 2040
- Prioritizes all animal species equally (for instance, does not benefit cows at the cost of increasing consumption of chickens)
- Aim to reduce or eliminate demand or consumption of animal products
- Only conduct work around diet-change, food systems change, or alt-proteins and do not conduct animal welfare activities, community projects, or other non-diet or non-plant-based, cultured or fermented food work.
- Consistently demonstrates a positive reputation with their stakeholders and community, and can contribute to ProVeg International’s positive reputation
- Align with ProVeg Grants Program’s safespace and respectful workplace values
- Are outside the United States and/or are not an international chapter of US-based organizations.
Ineligibility
- They are currently not funding:
- Animal welfare reforms or welfare campaigns
- Animal farming or other animal use
- Projects that use animal products (animal-based food, leather, etc.)
- Projects or organizations that benefit, support, or are impartial to animal farming or other exploitation of animals
- For-profit companies
- Food banks, hunger-relief, or food expenses
- Gardening projects
- Book production
- Animal rescue or care
- Political parties or candidate endorsement
- Legal defense
- Protests, demonstrations, or vigils
- Tuition, student research
- Work within the United States or international chapters of USA organizations.
For more information, visit ProVeg Grant.