Grantees

10 Million Black Vegan Women

The 10 Million Black Vegan Women Movement is a groundbreaking public health intervention that uses plant-based nutrition and community support to address a preventable health crisis among African American women.

A Table in the Wilderness

Since 2017, A Table in the Wilderness has served low-income communities in the Oklahoma City metro area through plant-based cooking demonstrations and food distribution.

Afro-Vegan Society

Afro-Vegan Society’s Dairy-Free Future campaign is designed to educate people from low-income Black communities about the health impacts of consuming dairy products, the cruelty built into the dairy industry, and the ease and affordability of eliminating dairy from our diets.

Akisha Townsend Eaton

Akisha is creating educational resources that identify recent trends in local zoning decisions to permit, restrict, or regulate animal agriculture operations; community response; and the impacts or likely impacts of such decisions on underresourced communities.

All Relations United

All Relations United works to uplift our veterans and communities and provide access to healthy food.

APEX Advocacy

APEX Advocacy is a U.S.-based registered 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization that aims to increase the number of BIPOC individuals that advocate animal liberation.

Be Well with Brialle

Brialle supports animal and vegan advocates’ emotional well-being to prevent burnout and cultivate longevity in the movement.

Beyond Humane Education

Beyond Humane Education inspires individual and systems change in service of justice and liberation for Black and other racialized communities and nonhuman animals through education.

Black VegFest

Black VegFest organizes to expand the Black-centered liberatory spaces that protect nonhuman animals.

Black Veg Society

Black Veg Society meets the BIPOC community where they are on their holistic health, vegan, and plant-based journey, bridging the gap compassionately and nonjudgmentally.

Black Women Farmers of LA

Black Women Farmers of Los Angeles are serving South LA with their hands in the soil and their hearts in the community.

Chilis on Wheels

Chilis on Wheels works to make veganism accessible to communities in need through direct food relief, education, mentorship, and policy advocacy.

The Cypher

The Cypher is “a Black femme-led collective for Trans & Queer racialized folks cultivating gender equity, food justice, and environmental justice through African ancestral, abolitionist and total liberation principles.”

Hip Hop is Green

Hip Hop is Green builds food systems that are equitable, healthy, and empowering by bringing the community together through good food and exploring global food culture.

Holistic Wellness and Health

Crystal launched The Holistic Plant-Based Agricultural and Cooking Program based in West Baltimore for young people to learn sustainable and compassionate agricultural practices and how they affect the earth and all of its creatures.

Iye Bako

Iye is a vegan educator and lifestyle influencer. She incorporates pop culture artifacts, such as anime vegan food recreations, to show that anything can be veganized and teaches that veganism is a total liberation practice.

Plant The Power

Plant The Power seeks to cultivate a caring plant-based community for Black folks and communities of color that demonstrates unconditional love for ourselves, nonhuman animals, and our world through the creation of social and educational gatherings, such as documentary film screenings, community meetups, cooking and gardening classes, and so much more.

Plant-Based Food Share

Plant Based Food Share is working to eliminate food insecurity and improve the health and well-being of the diverse and underserved communities impacted by hardships due to COVID-19, poverty, and dietary racism.

Rethink Your Food Inc.

Rethink Your Food implements culturally appropriate plant-focused diet- and menu-change initiatives in Caribbean communities to address the need for a more sustainable approach to nutrition security.

Sowing Seeds

Sowing Seeds offers educational and life-affirming tools, resources, and support in neighborhoods afflicted by food apartheid that establish food security, holistically repair ecosystems, and restore community well-being through food forest community gardens.

SÜPRSEED

Olympia is opening South Central’s first full-service organic grocery and subsidizes healthy vegan meals for thousands of Angelenos.

Texas Eats Green

Texas Eats Green is a dual-mission initiative focused on promoting plant-based options in BIPOC communities and reducing animal suffering by encouraging sustainable culinary practices in Texas.

The Eden Project

The Eden Project partners with churches to rebuild and heal communities by growing food in low-income neighborhoods in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Unity Collective

Unity Collective aims to elevate the voices of BIPOC groups and individuals working toward a just food system.

Vegan Meals that Heal

Aisha offers consistent opportunities to underserved communities to have warm, free vegan meals through a mobile soup kitchen and weekly pop-ups.

Vegans of LA Food Bank

Gwenna Hunter is a vegan activist who champions the rights of humans and animals. She is the founder of Vegans of LA and the first vegan food bank in Los Angeles, which is also the first vegan food bank initiated by a Black woman in the country.

Veggie Mijas

Veggie Mijas is dedicated to supporting BIPOC individuals on their plant-based journey while advocating for animal, environmental, and social justice issues in our communities.

Yvette Baker

Yvette Baker is a writer, a social critic, and an animal liberation activist. She has devoted her work and activism to analyzing the intersections of human and beyond-human oppression through an Afro-Indigenous lens.