Vegan Outreach is known for their massive outreach program of leafleting on college campuses where they hand out booklets to about one million students at 1,000 schools per semester. They're a 501c3 nonprofit organization working to end violence towards animals.
They also focus on outreach involving free vegan food samples, showing virtual reality videos, and tabling booklets at vegfests, cat and dog festivals, Comic-Cons, yoga festivals, farmers markets, and other fairs and conventions worldwide.
We first heard of Vegan Outreach when we were surveying the possibility of creating technology at college campuses to help students with animal rights outreach programs. We were excited to see that an organization like Vegan Outreach had already been laying down the groundwork for several years on campuses around the world in an effort to educate students on factory farming and veganism.
Later we partnered with Vegan Outreach's Mentorship Program in order to increase Vegan Bootcamp's effectiveness to over 10,000 non-vegans who were taking courses on going vegan. Our experience with Vegan Outreach's staff has been nothing short of amazing and we're so excited to continue both working with them and seeing what other great things they will be doing for the movement.
We highly recommend checking Vegan Outreach out whether you want to get involved, learn more about them, or support their work by sharing or donating.
Thanks for all that you do!
How can we be sure that Vegan Outreach is raising awareness and making progress? If leafleting is the most effective form of activism , where is the proof for the last 20 years? Gallup Poll shows less vegans and vegetarians while animal exploitation is on the rise. Animals being slaughtered now compared to when Vegan Outreach was founded has increased. So how is this progress for the Animal Rights Movement?
Evaluations: Vegan Outreach has relied too heavily on poor sources of evidence to determine the effectiveness of leafleting as compared to other interventions
https://news.gallup.com/poll/238328/snapshot-few-americans-vegetarian-vegan.aspx
Review from Guidestar
Dedicated people who leaflet colleges around the country. Making vegans of countless students. Great. Get them while they are young. Save more animals
Review from Guidestar
Despite it's name Vegan Outreach spends a LOT of time bashing other vegans and insisting veganism is too hard and fanatical. They should change their name, because well meaning people are donating to an org that only encourages people to cut back, not cut out speciesism. The last thing animals need is yet another organization that is too scared to ask for what it really wants.
Review from Guidestar
Vegan Outreach is #1 recommended by Effective Animal Activism, which only recommends charities that are stellar at:
1. Being the best change for your buck. That is to say, they do the most good for your dollar.
2. Being scientifically proven to be impactul
3. Having room for more funding.
If you donate your money to Vegan Outreach, you are making a huge difference to animal's lives
Donating to VO is independently judged as one of the best ways to stop animal suffering by effectiveanimalactivism.org
You know where your money goes with Vegan Outreach - straight to printing leaflets that are handed out to college students. VO provides information to those with open minds, about animal exploitation and vegan health. I've participated in Team Vegan for 3 years and raised a few thousand dollars. VO does not lobby the government or stage protests, so I feel comfortable asking my friends and family to donate. They are the real deal.
I have donated to Vegan Outreach for many years now. They are run by a group of dedicated volunteers that hand out information about factory farming, the suffering farm animals endure, and the benefits of being vegan on college campuses. They have been super successful in educating people and helping them live compassionate lives. Once a person gets their information, they are more likely to help end animal suffering - what is better than that?!
Biggest bang for the buck. Ninety-nine percent of the animals killed in the United States each year are slaughtered for human consumption.
Vegan Outreach is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization working to expose and end cruelty to animals through the widespread distribution of our illustrated booklets (click titles to view PDFs): Why Vegan?, Even If You Like Meat, and Compassionate Choices, along with our follow-up