For Animals, Folks, and Our Planet

This previous July, we launched an impactful humane training initiative entitled The Daring Selection Fund: For Animals, Folks, and Our Planet. Via this new challenge, we goal to achieve 10 million extra individuals by 2027 with a complete instructional expertise that considerably engages extra learners to foster empathy, promote sustainable practices, and encourage knowledgeable selections for a kinder world.

This chance has been made doable due to the help and thought management of Daring Selection Fund founding members Dr. Martin D. Madaus and Susan Madaus, who generously offered a $500,000 matching pledge to assist us meet our bold aim. 

The objectives of our wide-ranging humane teaching programs lengthen nicely past animal welfare to deal with interconnected problems with social inequity, environmental sustainability, and meals insecurity. Our applications have been acknowledged as a nationwide mannequin within the area of humane training as a result of they considerably impression the way in which younger individuals suppose and really feel about their accountability each to animals and to others. 

Importantly, due to the generosity of our donors, Farm Sanctuary is ready to present our academic assets without charge, benefiting kids, educators, mother and father, and educational communities alike. Recognizing that college students sitting in lecture rooms at the moment are tomorrow’s leaders— in enterprise, academia, authorities, and all spheres of public life—Farm Sanctuary understands that educating younger hearts and minds is essential to creating actual change on the planet.

Over the previous few years, Farm Sanctuary has made measurable progress in rising and enhancing our humane teaching programs, serving to 1000’s of scholars be taught extra about at the moment’s meals system and discover options that positively impression animals, individuals, and our planet. Final 12 months alone, our academic attain expanded by 200% and grew internationally by reaching college students in international locations corresponding to Costa Rica and Australia—all due to the continuing dedication of donors such as you who help this considerate, values-based training. 

As a part of Farm Sanctuary’s Strategic Plan, we goal to broaden these efforts within the years forward to achieve an ever-increasing variety of college students, activists, adults, and educators in compelling and modern methods. At the moment, Farm Sanctuary has a lot of alternatives and is positioned to scale at a steeper trajectory and meet this increasing want swiftly.