Hi, fellow EAs! Thank you so much for caring about making the world better. My name is Alene, and I’m excited to meet you. I run the litigation nonprofit, Legal Impact for Chickens. We sue companies and executives that abuse animals on factory farms.
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Thank you so much Constance!
Yeah it stinks. The judge just ruled from the bench—He didn’t author a written opinion.
Thank you so much, Guy!! Sadly, the judge dismissed the Costco lawsuit. :-(
Excited and grateful for your work!!!!
Just replying, very belatedly, to say: You’re amazing.
Cullen, just commenting very belatedly to say: You’re a God.
Thank you so much for interviewing Sarah, and for posting this, Karthik!!!!
I know this is CRAZY belated, but I just wanted to thank you for the shout out to Legal Impact for Chickens! ❤️🐥 (Seeing our name in a recent EA Forum post made me wonder if we had ever been mentioned in past EA Forum posts which I missed. So I checked and found this!!!)
One of them is and one of them isn’t!
Yeah it could totally be a startup thing. :-)
Super glad that One Step exists. It’s really scary to think about people switching from beef to chicken. ❤️🐥
Dear Brian,
Thank you so much for using Legal Impact for Chickens as your example!!!! It’s an honor. Reading our name here made me so surprised and happy!!!
Thank you, also, for appreciating our desire to focus specifically on reducing suffering.
To address your question:
In my limited experience, starting a new nonprofit over the past two years, I haven’t personally noticed much funging.
To me, it generally seems like the opposite happens—the more we fundraise, the easier it is for us to fundraise.
It seems like many grantors want to see that a nonprofit has a diverse donor base and is putting effort into fundraising. So, my hunch is that receiving each donation generally helps LIC receive more donations in the long run. When we apply for funding, we sometimes brag about how many donors we already have and how much we’ve already raised. And there are certain large grantors that I have been told prefer to fund nonprofits that already have raised at least a certain amount from other sources. Maybe that helps create certainty that the nonprofit is self sufficient?
So, I would guess that this model from your comment above is generally correct: “the opposite of the funging model assumed in my post: an individual donor’s gift led to more funding from [a large grantor] over the long run, not less.”
But there has been one exception: We applied for one small grant from a non-EA grantor and were rejected partly on grounds that we already had raised too much money to qualify.
But I believe that one rejection is outweighed by other, larger, gifts that LIC received partly because we already had already received earlier gifts.
That said, of course, I’m not a grantor. Maybe I’m not really understanding how things work from the perspective of our amazing grantors. (Thank you so much to all of them who may be reading this!)
Thank you again for mentioning our name!!
Sincerely, Alene & LIC
Congratulations Robert!! This is so needed! Animals suffer a TON in the food industry. But that’s not something anyone wants. Businesses need options for how to treat animals better in a way that is also good for their bottom line. Go Robert!!
Thank you so much for hosting Denise!
Thank you for writing this. This is awesome.
🐥❤️ So excited by all this!!
That’s a great point about mass having a double meaning! I hadn’t thought of that!
Thanks Emre!
Thank you Fai!!!!