My Nonprofit Reviews

The biodiversity crisis is the greatest deathward movement of our age, existentially surpassing even the climate crisis. I am very encouraged by the Center for Biological Diversity's passionate involvement in learning about challenges to species' survival, in publicizing what they've learned, and in finding ways for themselves and allied activists to take action in the face of those challenges. The news items they share are always interesting, sometimes depressing -- for it's good, healthful and responsible for us to know the worst -- , but sometimes also uplifting and enjoyable. Hopefully more people will come to appreciate them and their work.

The AAVS are terrific. They manage a well-designed and informative website; they do a great deal in promoting pro-animal education, and especially in helping young people negotiate alternatives to required tasks in their science programs which are cruel to animals; and they are involved in getting cruelty-free alternatives to animal testing accepted in many laboratories around the country.

The Center for Biological Diversity have kept me well informed about the situations and plights of very many wildlife species, from many different groups, so I have great admiration for them as educators. I am especially interested in wolves, because of their very long and ongoing history of being cruelly and irrationally persecuted in this country, and therefore I appreciate the information about wolves that the Center provide, as well of course as all the activism that the Center are engaged in, on behalf of wolves and of many other kinds of animals too.

With a small staff and headquarters (their office is not far from where my late mother lived, so I have a good idea of their situation), this historic and venerable nonprofit organization has maintained an outsize presence and authority in our society's moral progress. Their publications are always highly informative, including good insights into the state of laboratory research on animals, good reporting on developments in law, businesses and schools, and essays by leaders in anti-vivisection, or animal protection more generally. They have achieved noteworthy successes in educating and engaging students, and assisting them in finding alternatives to the use of animals in their own biology lab courses. They have recommended lines of cosmetics and health-care products that are produced by cruelty-free processes. They have recently redesigned their website, so that now it is an especially beautiful and elegant resource for learning about who the different kinds of animals used/abused in lab testing are, and how they are used/abused, and by whom. E.g., I am especially interested in learning about the use/abuse of rats and mice, the most overlooked, taken-for-granted and friendless of these animals, and now I am pleased at how easy it is to do that.