NEA is hard at work every day on projects and ongoing programs to advance the causes of animal advocacy and nonviolence.

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Ongoing Programs

TruthSayers
TruthSayers.org
This program was developed by the founders of National Endowment for the Animals to help advocates become effective speakers for the animals. This is what powerful advocacy is all about - the power of the spoken word. TruthSayers trains advocates in nonviolence, explains who wants them to be afraid of speaking out, and helps them conquer their fears so they can change lives and save lives.

Partners in Nonviolence
NonviolenceRevolution.org
This program is an effort to bring like minds together for a common cause and to conquer a common enemy – violence. NEA is striving to bring together the leaders of human rights, civil rights, women’s rights, animal rights, workers rights, environmental issues, and many other visionaries for nonviolence by pointing out their commonalities and building collaborations, understandings and friendships.

AnimalU
Opening the minds and hearts of students
AnimalU.org
AnimalU.org is under development. A sense of community encourages investment in a group. NEA is creating a template website system available to student groups in order to develop local campus and intercampus Animal Advocacy communities. The websites will allow the campus groups their unique web address, content and printable materials. The standardized websites and materials will help start-up groups overcome inherent start-up difficulties, will allow for consistency of the message, and will help build a recognized local campus community and brand. The system will also provide for an easy “passing of the baton” to incoming campus coordinators, allowing them to successfully step into a coordination role that might otherwise have been overwhelming.

Nonviolent Investing
Currently under development. NEA is speaking with several humane investment consultants in order to bring you, the conscious investor, the tools to make informed and humane investments.

"Stop the Violence" Campaigns and Outreach

Humane Education
NEA volunteers regularly take part in outreach opportunities and speak in schools, at colleges, to Humane Societies, and in communities to spread the word of compassion and nonviolence.

Making the public aware and demanding that the USDA immediately stop killing wildlife with our tax dollars. Under pressure from ranchers, the U.S. government exterminates tens of thousands of “predator” and "nuisance" animals each year. In 1989, a partial list of animals killed by the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Animal Damage Control Program included 86,502 coyotes, 7,158 foxes, 236 black bears, 1,220 bobcats, and 80 wolves. In 1988, 4.6 million birds, 9,000 beavers, 76,000 coyotes, 5,000 raccoons, 300 black bears, and 200 mountain lions, among others, were killed. Some 400 pet dogs and 100 cats were also inadvertently killed. Extermination methods used include poisoning, shooting, gassing, and burning animals in their dens.
Keith Schneider, "Mediating the Federal War of the Jungle," New York Times, July 9. 1991,4E; Carol Grunewald, ed, Animal Activist Alert, 8:3 (Washington D.C.: Humane Society of the United States, 1990), 3.

Free the primates being held at Colorado University
FreeTheCU34.org
This is an ongoing effort to free primates being held captive for possible future experimentation by the University of Colorado. The effort is supported in part by the hands-on efforts, consulting and website support of National Endowment for the Animals.

Stop Factory Farms
This is an ongoing effort to educate the public of the horrors of factory farming – corporate greed over the lives of animals and family farmers. Outreach includes Humane Education, speaking events, street outreach, handing out pamphlets, newspaper editorials, magazine articles, support and business advice to farm animal sanctuaries, etc.

It's a horrifying life for animals raped (forcibly ejaculated and inseminated), confined, mutilated (ears and tails cut off, horns burned off, testicles cut out -- all without anesthesia), and finally hauled to their deaths at factory slaughterhouses. It almost seems unreal -- but it is real. Here's one satellite photo of a feedlot near Greeley, CO where 100,000-150,000 cattle stand in all weather without protection on the mountains of feces they excrete (millions of pounds a day). Notice the waterway/river close by.
Click here to see the image. (You can zoom in once there)

Click here to read an exerpt from Fast Food Nation by Eric Schlosser about the Greeley feedlots and slaughterhouses.