Vegan Synergy

These organizations are doing great work promoting veganism in various ways. Check out our favorite vegan synergy organizations!

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The vegan movement has certainly grown since American Vegan Society (AVS) was established in 1960 (now the longest-running national vegan organization in the U.S.)! We believe in synergy: the cooperation of two or more organizations produces a combined effect greater than the sum of their separate effects. These amazing vegan organizations have national or international inspiration and reach with their ideas and projects. If you are looking for something more local to you, check out our Vegan Information Points page.

Vegan Synergy Month is August, our selected month to promote #vegansynergy, but we believe it is a year-round endeavor. Why August? H. Jay Dinshah officially founded AVS February 8 1960, but August 1 1960 is a bigger day in AVS history. Freya and Jay married; AVS became much stronger than doubling Jay’s efforts as a lone speaker/author. People called Jay a crank. He said, “It takes a crank to get things started.”

We appreciate all these organizations cranking things up to help make vegan mainstream!

Afro-Vegan Society is a national nonprofit organization in the U.S. that provides people in marginalized communities with the education and inspiration they need to transition to vegan living. Afro-Vegan Society’s event Veguary is a FREE month-long celebration encouraging people to try vegan living during the month of February. This campaign, during Black History Month in the United States, highlights the contributions of Black trailblazers and the many benefits of vegan living in our communities.

Beyond Carnism is a U.S.-based, international organization dedicated to exposing and transforming carnism, the invisible belief system that conditions people to eat certain animals. Beyond Carnism seeks to empower nonvegan consumers and vegan advocates through awareness raising and training, to help create a more just and compassionate world for all beings, human and nonhuman alike.

The Center for Effective Vegan Advocacy (CEVA) works to increase the impact of vegan advocacy worldwide by increasing the effectiveness of vegan advocates and organizations and by helping to create a more unified and resilient vegan movement. CEVA provides on-site and online trainings, organizational consulting, and leadership support at low to no cost, by highly experienced trainers.

Climate Healers was launched in 2007 as a nonprofit activist organization dedicated towards healing the earth’s climate, backed by systems thinking and compassionate science. Everything Climate Healers does is in service of the Greatest Transformation in Human History (GTiHH), from our caterpillar phase as Homo Sapiens, a narcissistic, predatory, “taker” species, to our butterfly phase as Homo Ahimsa, a compassionate, climate-harmonizing, caretaker species. Imagine a largely vegan world by 2026 in which people can put on their chrysalis avatars to leave their caterpillar past behind and join together as true equals but each with unique gifts in a cooperative effort to depollute and regenerate the Earth in preparation for the birth of the butterfly (Homo Ahimsa) stage of humanity. Climate Healers advance this imminent transformation to a vegan world through books, documentaries, position papers, webinars, campaigns (The Cow in the Room, The Cow in the Kitchen), and quarterly Vegan Convergence Of the Peoples (V-COP).

The Coalition for Healthy School Food (CHSF) is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit that promotes plant-based foods and nutrition education in schools, to teach the whole school community about the effect of our food choices on health, the environment, equity, and other social justice issues. While CHSF helps schools across the country, they have significant formal partnerships with NYC schools, as a driving force behind Plant-Powered Fridays, and with Ithaca NY schools, where they developed a collection of Plant-Powered Recipes inspired by foods from around the world in partnership with Moosewood Restaurant.

The Compassion Consortium is a nonsectarian center offering well-being resources, spiritual guidance, support, and community fellowship to vegans, vegetarians, animal rights activists, animal lovers, and all humans who care about and advocate for animals and the planet.

Many people do not see their deeply rooted compassion for all creatures reflected in traditional religious houses of worship or spiritual centers. The Compassion Consortium is here to supplement this “missing piece” for persons who are part of another religious or spiritual community and those who are not affiliated or identify as secular. Regular monthly service takes place usually on the 4th Sunday, 4 pm U.S. Eastern Time, free online.

Earthsave Canada is a Canadian registered charity whose mission is to change the world by promoting the widespread adoption of plant-based diets. Earthsave Canada uses evidence-based education to increase awareness of the ways in which choosing a plant-based diet will lead to a healthier, kinder, and more sustainable world.

Founded in 2007 by longtime animal advocate lauren Ornelas, Food Empowerment Project (F.E.P.) is a vegan nonprofit working toward a food system free from the abuse and exploitation of animals, humans, and the environment. The group encourages healthy food choices that reflect a more compassionate society and focuses on four core programs: vegan advocacy, farm worker justice, chocolate transparency, and access to healthy foods. F.E.P. has created such resources and events as VeganMexicanFood.com, VeganFilipinoFood.com, VeganLaoFood.com, a free app that lists chocolates they do and do not recommend, an annual School Supply Drive for the children of farm workers, and the Vallejo Healthy Food Fest.

With a history that spans over 50 years, Gentle World is both a vegan intentional community and a 501(c)(3) educational organization whose purpose is to help build a more peaceful society, by educating the public about the reasons for being vegan, the benefits of vegan living, and how to make the vegan transition. Toward that end, Gentle World serves as a clearinghouse of information staffed by a team of volunteers who provide educational services free of charge to people from all over the world. Their nonprofit activities include online outreach, and in-person immersions at their two visitor centers in Hawaii and New Zealand.

Lebanese Vegans are the backbone of veganism in Lebanon and the region. Since 2016, they have held countless workshops, activism events, and conferences about animal rights. From billboard and radio campaigns to live cooking on the streets, Lebanese Vegans take advantage of every tool to broadcast the voice of the animals. On November 1 2021 they inaugurated the Lebanese Vegans Social Hub (Beirut Lebanon), the only animal rights and vegan support center in Southwest Asia and North Africa.

Main Street Vegan Academy (MSVA) equips its students for roles that make a difference: coaching individuals to vegan success, speaking and teaching for live and online audiences, starting a vegan business, or working with a vegan company or nonprofit. Expanding the effectiveness of one’s outreach and influence demands a personalized, professional, in-depth experience. Because this is what it takes, this is what MSVA offers — live via Zoom. MSVA’s commitment is to provide excellence in plant-based training and vegan education, and support MSVA graduates’ progress going forward.

The National Health Association (NHA), formerly the American Natural Hygiene Society, has deep roots in the vegan movement and has been advocating an exclusive whole plant food diet and lifestyle since 1948. The NHA is a 501(c)(3) charity and has held annual health conferences since 1949 where the leading voices of health reform have been featured speakers. Since 1978 NHA has published a quarterly health journal, Health Science, a 40-page advertising-free publication featuring articles promoting this healthful diet and lifestyle, the benefits of water-only fasting, championing the need to protect our planet, defending the rights of animals, and demanding freedom of choice in health care. Major expansion in the educational activities of the NHA in 2022 included the launch of a new website www.healthscience.org, the premier of the free “Health Science Newsletter” and the start of the “Health Science Podcast” hosted by NHA Director of Health Education Dr. Frank Sabatino.

Since 1974, the North American Vegetarian Society has advocated Healthy, Compassionate, and Ecological Living.  They put on the educational conference Vegan Summerfest and are the originators of World Vegetarian Day which is celebrated each year on October 1st.

Peace Advocacy Network (PAN) promotes a peaceful existence through veganism, social justice, and respect for the Earth’s inhabitants and resources. PAN, founded in 2010, is a grassroots group that strives for the absence of violence in the lives of people and animals by eliminating oppression and inequity. PAN achieves its goals through three primary programs. (1) Free 30-day Vegan Pledge Program (VPP) is unlike most other pledge programs because it implements the science of accountability for success. Over 30 days PAN meets five times with participants to discuss environmental impact, ethics, and health with credentialed speakers. PAN also shares cooking classes, panel discussions on how to live in a nonvegan world, and explores additional topics such as low-waste lifestyles. Every participant receives a personal mentor, digital cookbooks, and coupons. (2) A free recycling program that helps recycle items typically not recycled curbside. (3) Vegan Activist Academy (VAA) that currently offers a free Certified Animal Activist program training environmental and animal activists to be more effective in their own communities. This program trains important skills, and participants prepare an action plan best suited for their community and culture. 

Plant-based Prevention Of Disease, Inc. (“P-POD”) produces national P-POD Conferences which serve the public while providing fully-accredited continuing education to practitioners and students in health-related professions. Society’s major chronic diseases may largely be prevented or even reversed via plant-based vegan nutrition and related lifestyle measures.  P-POD is renowned for reflecting society’s diversity, and for now producing conferences that satisfy the in-person-learning prerequisite for candidates to become credentialed in the rapidly expanding field of Lifestyle Medicine.

Project Vegan 716 is an LLC, included here because of the great work they do similar to the vegan nonprofit organizations. Since September 2019 this corporation has been working to educate the public about the benefits of following a vegan lifestyle, to help others transition to a vegan lifestyle, and to work collaboratively with other business owners to help grow and strengthen the vegan community. Offering support, education, and resources to all who wish to follow a kinder, healthier lifestyle, they give 1:1 and small group vegan lifestyle coaching, educational seminars, plant-based cooking classes, and DIY workshops. They work collaboratively with other vegan businesses and start-ups to grow their businesses and fulfill needs within the vegan community. They opened The Vegan Center on Halloween in 2020 at 60 Broad Street in Tonawanda NY (near Buffalo, hence the area code in their name) to further their collaborative efforts with vegan business owners and to bring the vegan community together in a safe, welcoming place. 

Founded by vegans, Rochester Lifestyle Medicine Institute (RLMI) is a 501(c)(3) with the mission “To establish Lifestyle Medicine, especially the adoption of Whole-Food Plant-Based nutrition, as the foundation for health and the healthcare system.”

RLMI’s programs, and especially its popular medically-facilitated 15-Day Whole-Food Plant-Based Jumpstart, introduce people to plant-based eating in a fun, engaging, and socially supportive way. RLMI appeals strongly to the many people who are suffering from chronic disease and gives them a way to turn their health around. 

RLMI operates on the belief that there are no bad reasons to become vegan; and the animals don’t care why you are not eating them. What is gratifying is how readily people who start eating plant-based for health reasons, will open up to the ethical reasons, and will be even more strongly motivated to stay on the path of plant-based, vegan living.

SAEN – Stop Animal Exploitation Now’s mission is to end animal experimentation through cutting-edge investigations/complaints, hard-hitting media exposes’, and public pressure. SAEN has a long history of closing labs, forcing leverage of federal fines, winning lawsuits, and retraction of journal articles by routinely exposing labs in the media by generating well over 100 news stories annually and filing Official Complaints with regulatory agencies. SAEN is a Leading Expert on animal research in the U.S.

Switch4Good is a nonprofit of dairy-free scientists, medical experts, dietitians, and athletes helping others live better and do more by ditching dairy and making the switch to plant-based fuel. Using evidence-backed research, Switch4Good aims to disrupt the status quo and eliminate dependence on dairy for the sake of improved health, enhanced athletic performance, planetary responsibility, and food justice.

Vegan Hacktivists are a diverse community of passionate vegan activists from all around the world volunteering their time and skills towards the animal protection movement. Vegan Hacktivists build free technology and offer free services with the goal of reducing or stopping the mass amounts of suffering caused by factory farming. Their Vegan Bootcamp is a free challenge website that takes participants step-by-step towards a vegan lifestyle. Meanwhile Activist Hub revolutionizes street activism enabling the collection of data on how many people are inspired to go vegan. 

The Vegan Museum (TVM) has a mission to preserve important artifacts of the deep, rich, and ongoing history of the vegetarian and vegan movements in the United States. TVM draws on this legacy to promote the values and benefits of veganism for human health, the environment, and the honoring of all life through exhibits, educational programs, and literature. TVM’s vision is of a flourishing world in which avoidable human and animal suffering are eliminated, with all life being in sustainable balance. Eating a whole-food vegan diet is one of the primary factors that will lead us toward this harmony.

Founded in 1944, The Vegan Society is the original vegan society (U.K. based). The Vegan Society is a registered educational charity that provides information and guidance on various aspects of veganism. The Vegan Society works to help more people become vegan with confidence, encourage more trusted Vegan Society Trademarked products to be available in shops, and take veganism to the mainstream. As a membership organization, members support the campaigns, education work, advocacy, research, and outreach by joining.

American Vegan Society is the North American agent for The Vegan Society’s Trademark. More info here.

Veganuary is a nonprofit organization that encourages people worldwide to try vegan for January and beyond. Throughout the year, Veganuary encourages and supports people and businesses alike to move to a plant-based diet as a way of protecting the environment, preventing animal suffering, and improving the health of millions of people.

The Vegetarian Resource Group (VRG) is a nonprofit organization dedicated to educating the public on veganism and the interrelated issues of health, nutrition, ecology, ethics, and world hunger. VRG has been helping health professionals, food services, businesses, educators, students, vegans, and vegetarians since 1982. In addition, VRG publishes the quarterly Vegan Journal magazine.

VegEvents is the vegan event calendar. Find a conference, festival, or market where you can gain support for going or staying vegan.

VegMovies has the largest collection of vegan movies and documentaries. Find something vegan-friendly and animal-friendly to watch or recommend today.

VegResources.com is your digital vegan welcome packet. Find answers to any questions you have about going vegan.

World Vegan Vision (WVV) actively promotes veganism for better health, animal welfare, and environmental conservation. WVV was founded by Mr. H.K.Shah and Mrs. Malti Shah as Vegetarian Vision in 1992, changed to World Vegan Vision in 2018, and has now grown to include chapters in NY, NJ, OH and 2 in India. WVV performs vegan outreach via a variety of events: online and in-person lectures, and social events. WVV publishes a monthly newsletter. WVV is also seeking to support vegan entrepreneurs in growing their practical and profitable ventures by providing financing and other support.