Proposals due October 31st

Since 1999, we have awarded small grants to 120 grassroots groups promoting a plant-based diet in the US and 28 other countries. The Fund honors the memory of FARM President Alex Hershaft's mother, Sabina. To apply, please visit the Proposal Guidelines.

We have been blown away by the results.

The $500-1,000 grants have produced amazing efforts by creative, dedicated folks who donate their time, talent, and tenacity and require only minimal seed grants to get started. Some of these projects are described and illustrated below.

Please join us in this rewarding adventure!

We have just received two dozen new proposals, and we would like to fulfill most of their dreams. But we can no longer do it without your help.

If you choose to sponsor a group's project with a donation of $500 or more, we will send you the group's proposal and subsequent report with photos. We will gratefully receive and pool smaller contributions to provide additional grants.

To contribute, visit our donate form and designate the Sabina Fund.

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SABINA FUND GRANTEES

• AVegS (Armenia)
• Action For Animals Network
• ADDA (Argentina)
• ANIMAL (Portugal)
• Animal Activists of Alachua, Florida
• Animal Liberation of Texas
• Animal Life Initiative (Uganda)
• Animal Protection and Rescue League
• Animal Protection of New Mexico
• Animal Sanctuary Foundation
• Animal Voice (S. Africa)
• Animals' Angels (Germany)
• Animal Friends (Croatia)
• Anonymous for Animal Rights (Israel)
• Aquarius Association (Romania)
• Azerbaijan Soc. For Prot. of Animals
• Berkshire Advocates for Animals
• Black Beauty, Minneapolis
• Bohol Goodwill (Philippines)
• BRAVE, Boston
• CDC Coalition (India)
• CETA (Ukraine)
• Chelma Advisory Institute (Kenya)
• Compassion Over Killing, DC
• Compassionate Action for Animals
• Compassionate Consumers, New York
• Compassionate Living
• Concordia Animal Rights Assn (Canada)
• Ddumba Tuule Project (Uganda)
• Deepalaya (India)
• Defending Farm Animals, Minneapolis
• Dero Rangers Project (Kenya)
• Dhano Reik Project/Hilltop Center (Kenya)
• EarthSave, Long Island
• Earth Save, Louisville
• Eco-Animal Allies, Minneapolis
• Economic Vector Group (Uganda)
• Emmanuel Seventh-Day Adventist Church
• Empathy Project
• Empatia (Poland)
• Ethical Vegetarian Alternative (Belgium)
• Eurasian Vegetarian Society (Russia)
• Fauna Society (Hungary)
• Four Feet Forward
• Fractal Farm
• Freedom Community Center
• Gentle Barn Foundation, California
• Global Action Network (Canada)
• GRACE TRUST (India)
• Help the Kasolo Association (Uganda)
• Health Seminars Unlimited, Alabama
• Humane Education Committee
• Humane Political Action Committee
• Humane Research Council
• IDEAS (India)
• ISSI Coalition (India)
• Joy Remoment Project (Kenya)
• Justice for All Species, DC
• Kassandra Develop. Initiative (Uganda)
• Kasubi Hunger Project (Uganda)
• Kyeyune Ssenkubuge Project (Uganda)
• Maine Animal Coalition
• Malar Mahalir Mandram (India)
• Mercy for Animals, Ohio
• Muwonge Rwandese (Uganda)
• Namukong Development Group (Uganda)
• New Jersey Animal Rights Alliance
• New West Research, Colorado
• Nigeria Vegetarian Society (Nigeria)
• Northwest Animal Rights Network
• NOVEP Coalition (India)
• Oikeutta Elaimille (Finland)
• Ooh Mah Nee Sanctuary, Pennsylvania
• PARWD Coalition (India)
• PREED Coalition (India)
• Prijateli Zivotinja (Croatia)
• Progetto Vivere Vegan (Italy)
• Protecting Animals USA
• Rhode Island Animal Rights Coalition
• Rhode Island Vegan Awareness
• Riamarabu Vegetarian Action (Kenya)
• RIDS (India)
• Rocky Mountain Animal Defense
• Romanian Alliance for Prot. of Animals
• Rural Education Dev. Project (India)
• Salem Coalition (India)
• San Antonio Vegetarian Society
• SAPAD Coalition (India)
• SCDP Coalition (India)
• SET-WIN - NOVEP Coalition (India)
• Silesian Ecological Organization (Poland)
• Siteo Vegetariano (Brazil)
• Societa Vegetariana (Italy)
• Soc. for Abolition of An. Expl. (Canada)
• Society for Animals (Czech Republic)
• Soc. for Prot. of Animals (Azerbaijan)
• Society for Vegetarians (Zambia)
• Stema Women Development Group (Kenya)
• Student Animal Rights Alliance, New York
• Sunrise Center (Malta)
• Sunrise Education Trust (Ireland)
• TNSSS (India)
• TEAM (India)
• Towards Freedom, California
• Unity is Strength Women's Association (Uganda)
• Utah Animal Rights Alliance
• Veg Pittsburgh
• Vegan Voice (Australia)
• Veg Video, California
• Vega! POL (Poland)
• Vegan Action, California
• Vegan Project (Uganda)
• VegePets (Netherlands)
• Vegetable Outreach Group (Uganda)
• Vegetarian Community Center (Uganda)
• Vegetarian Events, Florida
• Vegetarian Society of DC
• Veggie Exhibit (Poland)
• WED Trust Coalition (India)
• Women's Voices (Uganda)
• WORD Coalition (India)
• WORD Trust Coalition (India)
• Yes Future! (Russia)

SELECTED PROJECTS

Animal Protection & Rescue League of California organizes individuals to investigate foie gras farms and rescue injured birds. APRL’s investigation has brought animal cruelty to the attention of national media, including the Los Angeles Times, Time Magazine, Fox National News, The San Francisco Chronicle, and nearly all local television, radio, and paper outlets in the California area. www.aprl.org

Animals' Angels is a German-based organization that follows trucks transporting animals to slaughter throughout Europe and North America. The footage they capture of mistreatment and abuse during transport exposes to the public the horrible practices of the meat industry. www.animals-angels.de

Animal Friends is an animal rights organization in Croatia promoting vegetarianism as an ethical, ecological and healthy way of living by creating multimedia informational stands and disseminating literature throughout the city of Zagreb. www.prijatelji-zivotinja.hr

Cuddapah Organizations Coalition for Animal Protection works among tribes in Andhra Pradesh, India, where people sacrifice animals to tribal gods and primarily feed on animals for food. Because of poor food preparation, tribe members suffer serious illness and death. COCAP plans to promote a plant-based diet by conducting awareness camps with medical professionals, leafleting, and providing seed crop.

Eco-Animal Allies is a Minnesota grassroots humane education and advocacy organization conducting a TV commercial campaign promoting veganism, coordinated with distribution of Veggie Starter Kits and a complementary website in the Minneapolis/St. Paul, MN area. www.ecoanimalallies.org

The Empathy Project is a humane education initiative in Chicago, IL that brings the facts about animal agriculture and a vegan lifestyle to school children in the context of critical thinking activities and lessons. www.empathyproject.org

Four Feet Forward is doing a very clever sustained billboard marketing campaign targeted at promoting vegetarianism to university students in the Portland, OR metro area. www.chooseveg.com

Mercy For Animals is a grassroots animal rights organization in Ohio that has created a groundbreaking 60-second TV commercial that shows the atrocities of factory farms and slaughterhouses. It will be aired statewide and year-round on MTV, BET, and Animal Planet.www.mercyforanimals.org

Nigerian Vegetarian Society & Animal Welfare reaches out to the homeless and destitute with free plant-based foods. Thousands of displaced and needy Nigerians benefit each year, and are encouraged to pursue a plant-based diet. NVS also hosts cooking demonstrations and seminars emphasizing the nutritional benefits of plant foods.

Northwest Animal Rights League is a grassroots Seattle-based animal rights organization that has produced a PSA as part of a diverse media campaign called VegSeattle, which focuses on going veg for health, personal image, environmental and ethical reasons. It will be aired on cable networks in northwestern cities. www.narn.org

Siteo Vegetariano is doing a campaign targeted at Brazil's university students to promote vegetarianism with public presentations and an interactive website www.vegetarianismo.com.br

Society for Animals is a Czech Republic animal rights organization that is printing and mailing a brochure on vegetarianism in Czech as well as printing "5 reasons to become vegetarian" stickers and creating veggie info resources on their website. www.spolecnostprozvirata.cz

VegVideo is a one-hour public access show, airing in 10 cities, which includes factory farming investigations, documentaries, videos, and interviews. VegVideo hopes to expand to 5 new cities. www.vegvideo.org.

GRANT PROPOSAL GUIDELINES