Check out the wonderful array of vegan outreach activities organized by VegFund grantees across the world to encourage people to adopt and maintain a vegan lifestyle — from vegan food sampling and film screenings to vegfests, online campaigns, and other innovative vegan events and research.
You’re sure to be inspired!
FEATURED STORY
How Descubrir La Comida Gets 12,000+ New Subscribers/Month
Descubrir La Comida is an online and community campaign that began in 2015. Its objectives are to educate people about the realities of farm animals’ lives and to support those transitioning to a vegan lifestyle. Read more to learn about how they get more than 12,000 new subscribers per month.
FOOD SAMPLING
Doggie Dash 2018 vegan food sampling
Every year for nearly a decade, vegan activists have tabled at the Humane Society of Boulder Valley’s annual fundraising walk/run…
Vegan food sampling outreach at popular Canadian Expo
Montreal Vegetarian Society (MVA) reached 8,000 event attendees with their vegan food samples at a large, popular food and lifestyle…
Vegan food sampling at an EcoVillage
In spring of 2017, Solutionary Events of Florida hosted a vegan food-sampling event with a difference at St. Petersburg’s Ecovillage….
PAID-PER-VIEW
19-year-old brings Beyond the Lies to Virginia college campuses
In November of 2018, 19-year-old Erika held her first on-campus paid-per-view (PPV) outreach event at Northern Virginia Community College. Two…
An iAnimal video outreach event
In 2018, vegan activists in the United Kingdom (UK) hosted their first iAnimal video outreach event at the University of…
Video outreach campus tour
Dzīvnieku brīvība hosted 12 video “paid-per-view” (PPV) events with a food-focused twist at several facilities at the University of Latvia….
FILM SCREENINGS
Pop-up film screening in Hong Kong
In December of 2018, Mayse Artisan Bakery organized a “Cuddly Christmas” vegan buffet accompanied by a screening of The Last Pig at a local pop-up café…
A rural outreach film-screening program
During 2018, Indievillage, the distributor of the documentary Kangaroo: A Love–Hate Story, conducted a rural outreach program, facilitating multiple screenings…
Italy’s vegan film-screening tour
Vegan activists from the Italian organization Essere Animali hosted a highly successful tour of the new feature-length documentary film, The…
FESTIVALS & FAIRS
Animal Pride Day 2019
In July of 2019, the animal rights group Animal Pride organized the first-ever Animal Pride March and festival in Konstanz,…
Rice VegFest – Second Edition
Rice Vegan Society and the Peaceful Planet Foundation were proud to present the Second Annual Rice VegFest on March 24,…
Iowa’s first-ever vegan festival
Vegan activists organized the first-ever Iowa Vegfest in 2017 with great success. The event attracted 1,200 attendees, 80 percent of…
A summertime vegfest in Belgium
Belgium animal rights organization BE Vegan was delighted with the outcome of their summer vegfest, Vegan Summer Fest 2017, which…
ONLINE CAMPAIGNS
How Descubrir La Comida Gets 12,000+ New Subscribers/Month
Descubrir La Comida is an online and community campaign that began in 2015. Its objectives are to educate people about the realities of farm animals’ lives and to support those transitioning to a vegan lifestyle. Read more to learn about how they get more than 12,000 new subscribers per month.
“Count Your Colors” — Making vegan easy
Count Your Colors by Jenny Goldfarb, founder of the nonprofit Better World Film Group, is an online video series designed…
“Try Vegan This January” — An online vegan campaign
Veganuary is a charity that encourages people across the world to experience vegan living for the month of January, a…
LEARNING EVENTS
Lagos Goes Vegan – and Beyond
In April of 2019, Joshua Borokinni hosted the Lagos Goes Vegan Conference. It began with an upbeat, “green carpet” atmosphere…
The first vegan pledge event in New Orleans
Peace Advocacy Network has been running highly successful Vegan Pledge programs across the United States since 2010. 2017 was the…
Preventive Cardiology Conference
Montefiore Medical Center hosted the Preventive Cardiology Conference, a cardiology conference with a central theme of the health benefits of…
RESEARCH
Promoting consistency in the labeling of plant-based products
In 2017, the Plant Based Foods Association (PBFA) conducted important research on the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA)…
Apply for a research grant
The body of research literature on the negative impacts of animal agriculture, the benefits of vegan lifestyle choices, the science…
INNOVATIVE OUTREACH
The Bull City Vegan Challenge
Bull City Vegan is a 100% volunteer-run organization of passionate vegan activists promoting vegan dining options in Durham, North Carolina,…
The Synagogue Vegan Challenge
In 2017, VegFund partnered with The Shamayim V’Aretz Institute to pilot The Synagogue Vegan Challenge — an initiative with the…
2018 culinary competition and wellness expo
In March 2018, Real Food for Kids (RFFK) hosted its 6th Annual Culinary Competition & Wellness Expo at a secondary…