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Capacity Builders

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  • Logo of ADP Pro Bono Counsel for Animal Protection Charities, featuring a stylized eagle and elephant head.

    Animal Defense Partnership

    Who: Animal Defense Partnership protects animals by providing free legal services to nonprofits that advocate for animals and plant-based diet change.

    What they offer:

    • Pro-bono Legal services
    • Legal consulting, courses, support
    • Conflict resolution services

  • Logo for Vegan Hacktivists including a smiling pig's face inside a circle, with the text "Vegan Hacktivists" and the tagline "compassion. creativity. code." on a dark green background.

    Vegan Hacktivists

    Who: Vegan Hacktivistsis a global community of animal advocates offering skills in building technology for the animal protection movement through design and tech.

    What they offer:

    • Free website development
    • Developers & other volunteers
    • Tech & AI consulting

  • Logo for Hive with a chat bubble icon containing three dots.

    Hive

    Who: Hive (formerly Impactful Animal Advocacy) is a community building organization that improves coordination and collaboration in the farmed animal advocacy movement.

    What they offer:

    • One-to-one connections
    • Find projects, and collaborations
    • News, opportunities, and more

  • Logo of Animetrics with a stylized animal head and the slogan "Evidence-based Research for Animal Advocacy" on a green checkered background.

    Animetrics

    Who: Animetrics advances evidence-based animal advocacy using expertise in economics and econometrics. It prioritizes neglected regions with an intersectional approach.

    What they offer:

    • Free expert consultations
    • Academic research, impact evaluations & case studies
    • Education & Training

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    Violet Studios

    Who: Violet Studios helps nonprofits and advocacy groups amplify their voice, connect with their audience, and create meaningful change through design.

    What they offer:

    • A broad range of free branding services
    • Free web design services
    • Custom projects

  • Faunalytics logo with a bird and a bar graph in red, orange, yellow, and green.

    Faunalytics

    Who: Faunalytics empowers animal advocates with access to research, analysis, strategies, and messages that maximize their effectiveness to reduce animal suffering.

    What they offer:

    • A free online research library
    • Direct research support and advice
    • 1:1 research guidance

  • Logo of Animal & Vegan Advocacy International with stylized animal icons and green, blue, orange, and brown colors.

    AVA International

    AVA International is setting up events for advocates focusing on systemic change and working on various strategies toward one shared vision.

    What The Offer:

    • Networking Opportunities
    • Interactive Workshops
    • Keynotes & Panels

  • Logo for Scarlet Spark with the words "Scarlet Spark" in purple and gold, and a stylized sunburst above.

    Scarlet Spark

    Who: Scarlet Spark provides free leadership development and organizational support to animal protection organizations.

    What they offer:

    • Free leadership tools
    • Workshops & office hours
    • Workplace inclusion guidance

  • Logo for Animal Advocacy Careers featuring a stylized arrow with a diamond, circle, and triangle shapes on a green checkerboard background.

    Animal Advocacy Careers

    Who: Finding top talent to drive our movements mission is our number one priority, we help organisations find and attract mission-aligned top talent to accelerate your mission.

    What they offer:

    • Job Board
    • Talent Directory of 1,500+ candidates
    • Capacity building support finding board members and skilled volunteers

  • Logo of The Open Sanctuary Project with a globe and illustrations of farm animals on an open book.

    Open Sanctuary

    Who: The Open Sanctuary Project is a freely accessible digital guide for educational resources or information to responsibly create and successfully manage an animal sanctuary.

    What they offer:

    • Animal care resources
    • Sanctuary education resources
    • Sanctuary governance guidance

  • Logo for The Mission Motor with stylized 'M' and blue motion lines on a white background, surrounded by a green checkered pattern.

    The Mission Motor

    Who: The Mission Motor offers support on Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning, so animal nonprofits can improve their interventions and make the highest achievable impact.

    What they offer:

    • Training and support
    • Integration of MEL tools into operating procedures
    • MEL meetups

  • A graphic with a green checkerboard background and a white rectangle with the black text 'Sentient' in the center.

    Sentient

    Who: Sentient is a nonprofit news organization delivering explanatory and investigative journalism alongside critical commentary - spanning 35 countries.

    What they offer:

    • Reporting and freelance resources
    • Self-guided reporting courses
    • Mentorship

  • Logo of Asia for Animals Coalition with animal silhouettes in a circle and the text 'AFA' and 'Asia For Animals Coalition'

    Asia for Animals

    Who: CAPC was formed to facilitate the exchange of resources and expertise to help Asian farmed animal organizations to grow their work and to make it more effective and future-proof.

    What they offer:

    • One-on-One Support
    • Working Groups
    • Resources & Insights

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