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Welcome to our newest Motion Grants replace! We’re excited to share some latest program updates and sit up for what’s coming subsequent.
This month we’re saying 5 new grants which were disbursed to organizations driving significant change for animals.
We’re additionally taking a second to rejoice and study from our 2024 grant recipients, who’ve been onerous at work over the previous yr.
Lastly, for these trying forward, we’ll define key dates and alternatives for the rest of 2025.
Whether or not you’re a present recipient, potential applicant, or just somebody who believes within the energy of motion constructing, let’s dive in.
Grants Disbursed August 2025
Asia
Nameless Grantee
Quantity awarded: $30,000
Grant actions: Normal help grant to a South Asia-based group working to advance farmed animal welfare via analysis and collaboration with policymakers.
Europe
Animal Enterprise Transparency Challenge (AETP)
Quantity awarded: $38,160
Grant actions: This grant will help the Slovenia In opposition to Cages mission by Društvo projekt transparentnosti živalskih obratov (AETP), a Slovenian animal welfare group based in 2020. As this grant was being processed, AETP achieved a big success: The Slovenian Authorities introduced a legislative ban on cages for hens to be applied by the top of 2028. The grant funds will now be used to make sure the ban is applied, and to marketing campaign to increase comparable protections to different farmed animal species via public advocacy, stakeholder engagement, and legislative work.
Farmállatvédelem
Quantity awarded: $10,000
Grant Actions: This grant supplies help for Farmállatvédelem’s mission facilitating the transition to cage-free eggs in Hungary via company outreach and public consciousness campaigns.
Uncover
Quantity awarded: $40,000
Grant actions: The grant will help Uncover’s new mission Investigating Animal Welfare Violations in Aquaculture Farms in Germany. The work includes investigative analysis, fieldwork, media outreach, and the manufacturing and launch of footage of farmed fish struggling and welfare violations to mainstream media.
Latin America
Plant Futures Initiative
Quantity awarded: $45,000
Grant actions: Plant Futures Initiative is a student-powered group constructing a simply, sustainable, plant-forward meals system, by equipping rising leaders via training, neighborhood, and profession pathways. The grant will help the Mexico and Latin America Enlargement mission, which can develop and launch a management course on plant-centered meals techniques and animal rights in Mexico. The grant will help employees members to supervise curriculum improvement and growth.
Updates From Our 2024 Grant Recipients
Undercover Fish Collective (previously $camon $cotland)
Grant quantity: $38,000
% of their reported updates funded by ACE: 23%
Updates:
- Performed undercover investigations documenting animal welfare violations at fish farms, resulting in a number of farms being suspended from RSPCA Assured schemes.
- Uncovered unlawful practices together with salmon burial and banned chemical use at natural farms, leading to nationwide ITV protection and regulatory prosecution.
- Revealed the largest unreported salmon escape in a decade (80,000 fish) and dying of over 1 million farmed salmon at main U.Ok. retailer suppliers.
- Generated in depth media protection throughout The Guardian, BBC, The Instances, ITV Information and different main retailers, creating important reputational and financial influence on non-compliant operators.
- Improved trade transparency by making over 140 authorities inspection stories publicly accessible and creating salmonmediahub.org, a repository of free advocacy footage.
- Supplied skilled testimony to the Members of Scottish Parliament throughout inquiry periods.
- Acquired formal recognition from the Scottish Surroundings Safety Company thanking the group for serving as “eyes and ears” of environmental safety.
A lot of Undercover Fish Collective’s achievements have been in collaboration with different organizations, together with Animal Equality, Animal Rising, Inexperienced Britain Basis, Coastal Communities Community, and WildFish.
Alianza Alimentaria y Acción Climática
Challenge: Institutional and company outreach to lower the supply of animal merchandise and enhance the supply of animal-free merchandise on menus throughout Mexico
Grant quantity: $21,800
% of their reported updates funded by ACE: 45%
Location: Mexico
Updates:
- Secured partnership with Autonomous Metropolitan College in Mexico Metropolis to cut back animal elements within the cafeteria by 30% by 2026, impacting an estimated 1,200 each day meals.
- Organized plant-based cooking workshops in collaboration with Love Veg for college cooks and performed campus training periods to help the cafeteria transition.
- Spoke at 9 occasions for universities, firms, and authorities establishments together with Jalisco State Well being Division, the College of Guadalajara, and public analysis facilities like CIATEJ.
- Expanded digital attain with free on-line sources together with their two-week on-line problem, sustainable consuming information, and recipe books.
Animal Advocacy Africa
Challenge: Fundamentals and superior coaching packages for animal advocates in Africa
Grant quantity: $50,000
% of their reported updates funded by ACE: 44%
Location: Throughout Africa
Updates:
- Launched second Fundamentals Programme cohort in November 2024 with 19 members chosen from over 400 candidates.
- Accomplished the Fundamentals Programme, which ran via January 2025, with members ranking all parts as “very useful” to “extraordinarily useful” and reporting important enhancements in data, expertise, and motivation for farmed animal advocacy.
- Supported 10 members via the Superior Programme creating detailed mission plans throughout seven African international locations, together with tilapia farm water high quality enhancements in Ghana, manufacturing unit farm growth opposition in Nigeria, and cage-free initiatives in Zimbabwe.
- Awarded two grants totaling $21,000 to incubated tasks from the primary cohort: SHARED and Lumera.
- Helped plan the primary AVA Africa Summit in July 2025.
- Revealed analysis on interventions to mitigate industrial animal agriculture in Nigeria to tell members of their mission planning.
Animal Alliance Asia
Challenge: New Waves Asia (previously known as Fellowship)
Grant quantity: $50,000
% of their reported updates funded by ACE: 50%
Location: Japan and the Philippines
Updates:
- Skilled over 80 native fellows in institutional outreach in Japan, equipping them to have interaction faculty districts and policymakers for systemic change at school meal insurance policies.
- Achieved coverage modifications in two Japanese cities making dairy milk elective for 17,200 college students.
- Collaborated with eatery homeowners, cooks, and native farmers within the Philippines to increase inexpensive plant-based menu choices.
- Supported six meals institutions in introducing new plant-based menus.
- Facilitated 12 strategic partnerships between eateries and native farmers, fostering a extra sustainable and localized plant-based meals system.
- Changed an estimated 2,000 animal-based meals up to now with plant-based options within the Philippines.
- Generated important media protection within the Philippines reaching 30 million individuals.
Animal Welfare League
Grant quantity: $30,100
% of their reported updates funded by ACE: Cage-free commitments: 25%, Producer engagement: 10%, and Shopper consciousness: 100%
Location: Ghana
Updates:
- Secured cage free commitments from Accra Metropolis Lodge, Sannak Lodge, and Sky Plus Lodge & Resort. They estimate these commitments will enhance the lives of practically 7,000 egg-laying hens yearly.
- Signed a Memorandum of Understanding with Agro Innova Firm Restricted, a distinguished African Agri-Tech agency, stating that Agro Innova will completely supply from egg producers who’re 100% cage-free. As a significant distributor of eggs in Ghana, they estimate this might influence the lives of practically 0.8 million hens per yr.
- Performed three egg producer workshops within the Bono and Volta areas of Ghana. Sixty-one of the 76 egg producers that participated signed as much as be part of AWL’s nationwide cage-free community.
- AWL partnered with Consumer-Pleasant to create and publish consciousness movies throughout a number of media retailers to boost public consciousness of animal welfare points.
- Their work was featured in a Forbes article chronicling the motion to maintain chickens out of cages in Africa, they usually obtained protection throughout a number of nationwide tv channels.
Asociación de Emprendedores Veganos de México
Grant quantity: $50,000
% of their reported updates funded by ACE: 29%
Location: Mexico
Updates:
- Hosted the Vegan Enterprise Summit in October 2024 attracting 545 attendees and facilitating over 300 enterprise networking connections. The Summit additionally included the Expo Plant-Based mostly, the primary specialised plant-based commerce present in Mexico, which supplied a platform for connecting rising vegan manufacturers with retail consumers, meals service operators, and buyers.
- Returned to Expo ANTAD—one in every of Latin America’s largest retail commerce exhibits—with the Plant-Based mostly Pavilion, after 4 consecutive years of participation.
- Organized the Labeling Threats in LATAM Digital Workshop, which introduced collectively key stakeholders from the plant-based sector throughout 5 international locations to deal with regulatory limitations.
- Superior partnership with Jüsto on-line grocery platform to create a specialised plant-based basket rising product visibility and client entry.
- Collaborated with Nielsen IQ to assemble specialised market intelligence knowledge on the plant-based sector in Mexico, together with market worth estimates and distribution channels.
Convergence Animaux Politique
Challenge: Political advocacy work to advertise farmed animal welfare in France
Grant quantity: $30,000
% of their reported updates funded by ACE: 50%
Location: France
Updates:
- Held 41 conferences with Members of Parliament and authorities officers and attended 4 main political occasion conventions.
- Organized an occasion in Paris that introduced collectively 18 NGOs and 30 policymakers.
- Supplied political monitoring companies to 25 companion NGOs with vital insights and legislative texts to behave on. For instance, actively opposing a invoice that might facilitate intensive livestock farming by weakening environmental protections, notably mobilizing towards an article of the invoice which seeks to boost thresholds permitting large-scale farms to increase with fewer regulatory constraints.
- Launched 47 amendments through the Agricultural Coverage Invoice parliamentary debate advocating for sustainable practices, together with dedicating 10% of farmland to legumes, and enhanced animal welfare requirements. Moreover, Convergence Animaux Politique supplied technical help to organizations together with Compassion in World Farming and Greenpeace.
- Submitted 39 finances amendments with two initially adopted, together with a $10 million allocation for inspections of dwell animal transport by sea. Sadly, this was later overturned.
- Monitored and resisted initiatives to chop environmental company funding and gag amendments concentrating on animal safety NGO’s funding, freedom of expression, and investigative capacities.
- Launched France’s first invoice on industrial salmon farming in partnership with Seastemik and Welfarm, securing 48 of 70 required parliamentary signatures, and hoping to safe a full debate on the proposal.
Farmállatvédelem
Grant quantity: $20,000
% of their reported updates funded by ACE: July 2024 via February 2025: 100%, then 10% thereafter
Location: Hungary
Updates:
- Held corporations in Hungary accountable for his or her beforehand made cage-free commitments. To date, they’ve secured annual cage-free sourcing knowledge reporting from 5 retailers, one wholesaler, and 4 accommodations.
- Generated media protection together with the publication of Anima Worldwide’s undercover investigation in a number one Hungarian on-line journal, client training articles, and a radio interview about cage-free commitments with the main Hungarian radio channel.
- Revealed an organization rating report in a number one Hungarian B2B journal, Commerce Magazin.
- Launched a complete fish welfare survey investigating farm practices together with manufacturing volumes, water high quality, feeding, transport, slaughter strategies, and certification standing.
- Contacted two fish researchers at Hungarian College of Agriculture and Life Sciences for interviews and survey suggestions, and performed a web site go to to one in every of Hungary’s largest fish farms. Collected survey responses from 5 fish farms collectively representing 11.45% of Hungary’s complete fish manufacturing.
- Established contact with eight European organizations engaged on comparable interventions and joined the Open Wing Alliance and Aquatic Animal Alliance.
- Fashioned partnerships with Tudatos Vásárlók Egyesülete (Aware Customers’ Affiliation Hungary) and Una Terra Basis for consciousness campaigns and to co-publish stories relating to their cage-free work.
Fórum Nacional de Proteção e Defesa Animal
Challenge: MIRA (Mapping, Informing and Elevating Consciousness) – Broiler Chickens Initiative
Grant quantity: $50,000
% of their reported updates funded by ACE: 67%
Location: Brazil
Updates:
- The advanced provide chain dynamics in Brazil’s rooster meat trade imply that progress on the Higher Hen Dedication (BCC) required engagement throughout your entire chain reasonably than securing commitments from meat-buying corporations alone. Fórum Animal mapped and engaged 40 corporations together with producers, genetic homes, slaughterhouses, and retail chains.
- Performed negotiations with main producers JBS and C Vale on creating product traces aligned with BCC requirements.
- Made progress on the Brazilian BCC requirements together with pure lighting, environmental enrichment, and density enhancements, whereas figuring out ongoing challenges in genetics and slaughter practices.
- Collaborated with 4 worldwide NGOs to attach Brazilian suppliers with abroad corporations, leveraging Brazil’s significance within the export market.
- Carried out a dual-expertise strategy pairing animal welfare scientists with negotiation professionals.
- Produced a complete report on the Brazilian broiler trade detailing progress and ongoing challenges in enhancing rooster welfare.
Projet Animaux Zoopolis
Challenge: Battle towards dwell bait fishing and fish stocking
Grant quantity: $14,000
% of their reported updates funded by ACE: 100%
Location: France
Updates:
- Produced a complete report on French departmental subsidies for leisure fishing and made suggestions to cease financing fish stocking and to cease authorizing dwell bait fishing.
- Submitted an audit request to the Cours des Comptes to overview public funding for leisure fishing.
- Organized 4 demonstrations in departments Haute-Savoie, Indre, Tarn et Garonne, and Dordogne.
- Between July 2024 and March 2025, the Decathlon marketing campaign made important progress:
- PAZ organized 9 focused demonstrations and 24 petitions.
- Despatched greeting playing cards to 50 Decathlon shops promoting fish or crabs, leading to two shops saying they’d cease promoting.
- 15 Decathlon shops stopped dwell fish gross sales on this interval.
- In complete, because the begin of the Decathlon marketing campaign, over 100 Decathlon shops have stopped promoting dwell fish and/or crabs with 22 shops instantly attributable to PAZ’s focused actions.
- Distributed leaflets on leisure fishing to all members of parliament, main to 2 payments being tabled within the French Nationwide Meeting: banning dwell bait fishing and rising VAT on fish stocking.
- Generated in depth media protection with 168 articles throughout main retailers together with Reporterre, BFM TV, Le Figaro, and France Inter.
Reporters for Animals Worldwide
Grant quantity: $50,000
% of their reported updates funded by ACE: 20%
Location: International
Updates:
- Organized 15 academic occasions reaching greater than 100 investigators, facilitating 440 new connections and strengthening 445 current relationships throughout the investigative neighborhood.
- Skilled new investigators throughout 5 international locations and launched a mentorship program connecting 10 mentees with skilled investigators for ongoing steerage and help.
- Launched a research on investigator well-being in partnership with Faunalytics, contributing insights to the motion and elevating consciousness of discipline challenges.
- Re-granted $50,000 to 5 investigative tasks and secured $100,000 for the subsequent funding spherical.
- Supplied ongoing one-on-one consultations totaling round 60 hours advising people on particular challenges and sensible options.
- Coordinated the world’s largest egg investigation in collaboration with The Humane League and We Animals, releasing footage from 37 international locations.
Samayu, in partnership with A Simply World
Challenge: Advancing farmed animal welfare in poultry and aquaculture in India
Grant quantity: $33,000
% of their reported updates funded by ACE: 68%
Location: Madhya Pradesh, India
Updates:
- Secured formal recognition as an affiliate collaborator by Madhya Pradesh (MP) state authorities, making certain involvement in shaping aquaculture insurance policies.
- Efficiently advocated for MP statewide Fisheries Directive mandating water high quality monitoring, air pollution management, and aquatic weed administration to enhance fish welfare throughout your entire state. Samayu built-in One Well being governance into the directive, linking environmental and public well being insurance policies.
- Inside MP, Samayu obtained authorization from the Directorate of Fisheries to include water high quality monitoring and air pollution management into native governance in Balaghat and Jabalpur districts. They supplied water testing kits to 5 cooperatives and performed coaching with over 200 fish farmers.
- Supported seven neighborhood fish ponds attaining important enhancements in dissolved oxygen ranges and lowered ammonia, enhancing water high quality and fish well being.
- Revealed peer-reviewed analysis papers on aquaculture subjects together with zoonotic dangers, antimicrobial resistance, and sustainable options like seaweed farming.
- Labored with the federal government to determine an advisory board in Madhya Pradesh targeted on long-term accountability for poultry welfare. Revealed peer-reviewed analysis papers on zoonotic illness transmission and One Well being methods for poultry welfare.
Consumer-Pleasant Advertising
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Challenge: Advertising 101 course and follow-up session
Grant quantity: $5,712
% of their reported updates funded by ACE: 100%
Location: International
Updates:
- Launched the Advertising 101 course, which supplies a sensible basis in efficient advertising and marketing for high-impact tasks. It attracted 176 enrollments, demonstrating robust neighborhood demand.
- The course was developed with a self-paced construction designed for accessibility, concentrating on members with out formal advertising and marketing coaching who want efficient communication expertise.
- Up to now, the course has been accomplished by 10 organizations with unanimously optimistic suggestions: 100% rated the course as “Very Good” or “Wonderful” and 100% would advocate it to others.
- Recorded excessive influence scores with 65% of respondents ranking the course’s helpfulness at 6 out of seven, and 37.5% ranking it 7 out of seven for enhancing advertising and marketing skills.
- Created a Slack neighborhood group with 41 members that fosters peer help, idea-sharing, and collaborative problem-solving of promoting challenges.
- Established a basis for ongoing course enchancment based mostly on participant suggestions and neighborhood engagement monitoring.
Wanting Forward to the Remainder of 2025
We nonetheless plan to award dozens extra Motion Grants by the top of this yr, however time is operating out to use!
To obtain an invite to use for a Motion Grant, it’s essential first submit an expression of curiosity (EOI) type on Granti.
We are going to shut functions on Friday, October 3, 2025 and you will have to have submitted your EOI at the very least one week earlier than (by Friday, September 26). Learn extra about making use of for a Motion Grant.
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In accordance with this coverage, no ACE employees or board members participated within the overview or decision-making in circumstances the place an actual or perceived battle of curiosity existed.
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