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.