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Hive Slack Threads: September

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Oct 01, 2025

Exciting news and projects are happening on Slack—catch up in under 10 minutes! Huge thanks to Therese, who helped us put together this edition.

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Slack channels covered:

🧡 Introductions
🙏 Help Requests
💼 Jobs
👩‍💻 Slack Updates
🦌 Wild Animals
👋 Opportunities and Help Offered
🔥 Funding
🎁 Tools & Resources

🧡 Introductions

Our #01-introductions channel is a great way to get to know the community.
It’s never too late to introduce yourself! Here are some recent intros:

Hi, I’m Febiola Sirait, from Bali, Indonesia, with a background in legal and advocacy work.
Hi, I’m Ali Wang, director at Taiwan’s Life Conservationist Association and industry analyst at the Market Intelligence & Consulting Institute.
Hi, I’m Christian Peters, based in Berlin, part of the Kickstarting for Good incubator, with a background in design and business development.
Hi, I’m Sadiq Surajo, based in Nigeria, Founder and Executive Director of Veterinarians for Animal Welfare. I’m here to connect with advocates and researchers to advance farmed animal welfare and wildlife health.
Hi, I’m Emma Cameron, based in Wisconsin, USA, and the new Development Director at Animal Charity Evaluators, and I wish to stay up to date on learnings and professional development opportunities.
Hi, I’m Zwelisha Shobede, based in Cape Town, South Africa, Cage-Free Campaign Coordinator at the Southern African Faith Communities’ Environment Institute, bringing insights into South Africa’s farmed animal welfare context.

🙏 Help Requests

Our #03-help-requests channel is one of our most valuable channels! Check out some of these successfully answered requests!

Michelle got some leads on campaigning for In-Ovo sexing technology to stop male chick culling.
Alex connected with an expert in precision livestock farming to discuss the topic.
Aditi was pointed to previous work regarding frog farming to avoid duplication.
Hanano Animal Welfare received advice from the community on strengthening its Farmed Animal Welfare Program in Somalia.
Jennifer found a volunteer to test out a new test task at Fish Welfare Initiative.

❓ Can you assist with these unanswered requests?

James is looking for volunteer support to improve the delivery of his Marketing course.
Christian is looking for warm introductions to recognized designers or artists and general feedback on this approach for his Kickstarting for Good project.
Hanano Animal Welfare is seeking advice on alternative online donation platforms to receive international donations.
Anna is looking for an existing knowledge hub for NGOs that utilizes AI to collect and monitor research and can integrate her own documents.

💼 Jobs

One of our most popular channels is #06-job-postings! We have a feed that scans various job boards and posts a daily list of available positions.

Full Stack Developer, Anima International. Remote. Apply by 5 October.
Global Fundraising Specialist, Anima International. Remote. Apply by 5 October.
Social Media & Digital Communications Officer, Asia Accountability Initiative. Remote, Asia-based preferred. Apply by 12 October.
Senior Manager of Marketing and Communications, New Roots Institute. Remote, United States.
Press & Public Relations Lead, Pro-Animal Future. Remote, United States.
Global Corporate Engagement & Campaigns Lead, Sinergia Animal. Remote, Global.
Visual Marketing Specialist, New Roots Institute. Remote, United States.

👩‍💻 Slack Updates

Meet Therese! 🐥 We’re excited to share that Therese has joined our team! She’ll be working with us as Team Assistant / Executive Assistant and is already bringing lots of energy and structure to our work.
Reminder 👋 We host a list of tips on how to get the most out of your Slack Workspace in our #hive-guide!
New Channels 📚
- #r-russian: A space for advocates from the region to connect and exchange on farmed animal advocacy.

Spotlight 🌟 While the Hive Slack mainly focuses on farmed animal welfare, we’ve set up a dedicated channel for wild animal welfare since many advocates also care about this area.

🦌 Wild Animals

Therese shared an article about using oral rabies vaccination of raccoons as a proof of concept that wild animal welfare interventions can be scalable and plausibly cheap per animal.

Richard and Ben introduced amendments on wild animal welfare in the House of Lords, which sparked a sympathetic debate towards wild animals.
Johannes shared a debate on whether humans should intervene to reduce suffering in wild animals, highlighting the key tension between animal autonomy and suffering prevention.
Anand provided a historical overview of wild animal welfare, highlighting examples where interventions were carried out for compassion rather than conservation or human benefit.

👋 Opportunities and Help Offered

Keep an eye on the great offers in our #04-help-offered channel 🤩

Lorenzo from Animal Advocacy Careers offers free 1:1 career advising calls.
Alisha is offering pro bono design support to animal advocacy organizations and projects.
Sarah-Manon is available to provide support in editorial jobs and research.
Impactful Philanthropy is a special edition of the Charity Entrepreneurship Incubation Program, focused on increasing the effectiveness of the philanthropic sector. Apply by 5 October.
Sentient Futures is offering a free 8-week AI×Animals Fellowship on AI and animal welfare. Apply by 8 October.
We (Hive) are hosting an event on 21 October with Monica Chen (New Roots Institute) on LinkedIn Strategies for Animal Advocates.

🔥 Funding

Looking for fundraising advice? Join the conversation in #s-fundraising or explore our resource page!

The Renewable Natural Resources Foundation is offering grants for projects starting early 2026, which may be useful for people working on farm transitions or ag-related policy. Apply by 30 September.

Liz shared the minutes from the last Hive Fundraising Community Call with Rick Holland.
Vera posted the results of a survey on fundraising needs among food systems nonprofits.
Friendly reminder: Check out our (Hive’s) extensive Fundraising Guide with strategies, tools, and examples to support your project’s funding efforts.

🎁 Tools & Resources

Have a resource to share? #05-tools-resources is the channel for you! You can also find an extended list in our Hive Resource Library.

Sofia shared that Wispr, a speech-to-text tool that also corrects errors and formats text, offers a non-profit discount.
Sofia’s talk at the School of Moral Ambition about the urgent problem of factory farming and how people can get involved in solving it is now online.
Animal Charity Evaluators launched Better for Animals: Evidence-Based Insights for Effective Animal Advocacy, which synthesizes the latest evidence on almost 30 different animal advocacy interventions.
Björn posted a new resource about research gaps in Africa, highlighting key findings from a survey and workshop conducted at the AVA conference in Nairobi.
Eva highlighted the We Animals stock platform, where new content is added every month for the community to use.
Charly shared the Animal Welfare Economics Mentorship Program, which offers PhD students and early-career scholars one-on-one mentorship with faculty in the field of animal welfare economics.

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