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“Animal Microgrants: Request for Proposals” by Ben Stevenson


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Summary

We’re a funding circle looking to give microgrants to promising individuals (and very small organisations) focused on farm animal advocacy. The microgrants will be around £500 to £2500 ($670 to $3300). We’re more likely to fund smaller requests, but we’ll consider exceptional opportunities up to £5000 ($6700). Applicants should expect to hear back from us by the end of March.

In total, we expect to give between £15,000 ($20,000) and £43,000 ($59,000).[1]

Please complete our Request for Proposals here by 1 March 2026 (end of day, anywhere in the world).

What will we fund?

We’re excited about projects to help the farm animal advocacy movement in a variety of ways. Primarily, we are looking to support individuals who want to devote their career to improving the lives of farmed animals (e.g., upskilling current advocates, or helping people transition into movement work). We’re also interested in small-scale opportunities that can directly improve the lives of animals or provide information value (e.g., an intervention pilot).

Our funding circle will consider projects based anywhere in the world. We would especially like to support work in developing countries where industrial animal farming is an emerging problem.

In general, our funding circle is [...]

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Outline:

(00:12) Summary

(01:02) What will we fund?

(02:46) Who is eligible?

(03:18) Who is the funding circle?

(03:39) Where can I apply?

(04:09) Appendix: Longer list of potential projects

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First published:

January 26th, 2026

Source:

https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/fP9hvx8A9MG9F4rEb/animal-microgrants-request-for-proposals

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