What are they all about?
The Pollination Project (TPP) is a vegan foundation that offers seed funding to grassroots activists working to build a kinder, more compassionate world for human & non-human animals.
TPP focuses on early stage ideas and funds individuals directly. Over the years, they’ve seen the power of bottom-up, community-led grassroots activism. Through “pollination philanthropy”– a democratic model of peer-to-peer decision-making — TPP works with a global network of grantees, community partners, and volunteer advisors to identify extraordinary project leaders who, due to the grassroots nature of their work, are often not in a position to receive funding from other foundations or institutions.
They make micro grants 365 days a year to grassroots global change agents and have a growing global community of 4,500 grassroots leaders in 150 countries. They support vegan outreach projects around the world, and have a special program for farmed animal activists in Brazil, India and Mexico. Their goal is to offer not just seed funding, but capacity-building support and connectivity with other activists working in the same geographic or issue area.
Who are they looking to fund?
We believe it is vital that everyone has access to opportunities to make change and that voices from within the communities where projects take place are heard because we know the power of community-originated solutions. We also believe that individuals who recognize and realize the power that they hold as agents of change typically continue striving for good, and their impact ripples out into the world in a myriad of positive ways.
Following our theory of change, we provide seed grants to changemakers and leaders around the world who are working on a broad range of issue areas and who are aligned with TPP values of compassion and generosity. Our focus is on funding early stage projects that have clearly demonstrated that the applicant has already begun the work, but could benefit from a small grant to support the project in moving towards sustainability and increased impact.
Within all of our programs, we offer $1000 seed funding. Our goal is to strengthen movements by identifying, funding and supporting emergent leaders across a wide range of social change efforts, from global human rights and social justice, to environmental sustainability and climate change, to animal rights.
Our Daily Grants program accepts applications across any issue area. We also have programs for specific issues areas. We have a special focus on farmed animal advocacy projects with our Global Animal Advocacy Program (GAAP) and Tipping Point program.
With these programs, we are looking for projects that are addressing the cruelty inflicted on farmed animals in our food system. More specifically, under GAAP we are looking for projects in Brazil, India, and Mexico that are advocating for improvements in the welfare of farmed animals. This year and next, we are working to expand our support to more projects in these regions and facilitate regional movement building through offerings of networking events and capacity building trainings. Under our Tipping Point program, we are looking for projects anywhere in the world that are focused on reducing the consumption of conventionally raised animals. There is a wide spectrum of projects that may qualify for either of these programs, and we encourage those who are working within the farmed animal advocacy movement and/or vegan movement to reach out and apply.
What type of activism do they do?
What you should be doing before applying!
Before applying, we encourage you to review our brief Funding Guidelines to get a better idea of our general criteria. At the time of applying, we will ask you for a reference if you are based outside of the United States, so we also encourage you to identify and notify someone who can speak to you and your work ahead of applying. Finally, ahead of completing the application, it may be helpful to think through your short and long term plan for your work, your expected outcomes, and a detailed budget as our application questions are written to better understand the details of your project so that our advisor teams can make the most informed decisions.
How do I get involved?
To start volunteering with The Pollination Project, click a button below!
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1Always ask for vegan options when you're eating out, walking by a restaurant, store, or bar. Even if you already know that they don't have vegan options, asking creates a demand for it.
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2Buy vegan-friendly stickers and place them on walls, lamp poles, & other public areas. You can also attach QR code stickers on meat products. Please respect local laws! Find stickers
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3Move bookstore cookbooks so that plant-friendly recipes have more exposure near meat-based recipe books. Please be respectful and ask these stores first if you can rearrange them!
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4Update your social media profile descriptions or website with a link to a vegan youtube video! Use a goo.gl link to track clicks and stats. We recommend Gary or Earthling Ed's speech!
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5Print vegan-friendly flyers and pamphlets for people's mailboxes, or under their doors! Hand them out to people, leave them at libraries, colleges, supermarkets, or hang them in public places! Print or order resources by clicking here.
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6Contact stores around you and ask them to carry more vegan / plant-based / dairy-free items! It creates demand, and it only takes a few seconds to google your local store's website and email address! Example
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7Host potlucks / vegan meals by inviting friends and family over and cooking for them! Show them how good plant-based meats, milks and desserts actually are!
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8Leave positive Yelp reviews at restaurants that offered vegan options and give feedback to restaurants that you'd like to see more plant-based options! Examples.
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9Wear vegan shirts / clothes and other items! By wearing vegan-friendly messages on your clothes you help normalize veganism and hopefully plant a few seeds in people around you!
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10Tweet or email celebrities that you look up to, whether they play music, star in movies, write books, respectfully ask them to consider looking into Veganism! Examples here.
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11Donate to sanctuaries or organizations that could really use the funding! You could even sponsor an Animal at a sanctuary; your money is sorely needed. Donation list.
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12Use your creative skillsets and create various forms of art like songs, poems, stories, drawings, and so on, to spread the message of going vegan!
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13Set up a free public booth somewhere and give out small sample cups of plant-based milks to show people how good they are, and where to buy them from! Hand out pamphlets with information.
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14Ask your family to donate towards vegan organizations or sanctuaries in place of getting you birthday, wedding or christmas gifts! Plant some seeds in their mind! Donate list.
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15Perform chalk activism on public streets to spread information, facts and more - legally. Make sure the chalk is vegan (Crayola isn’t vegan)!
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16Change your WiFi network name to link directly to a free documentary! You can do "WATCHDOMINION.COM" or a similar link, it's a quick and easy thing to do! Screenshot.
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17Post content on reddit.com that's relevant to the community without directly pushing an agenda. Click here for a full guide on how to contribute there!
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