The Pollination Project Partners with Tipping Point Foundation to Further Compassion for All Beings

by | Dec 6, 2019 | Seeds: Our Blog

This month, The Pollination Project (TPP) celebrates its wonderful partnership with Tipping Point Foundation!
Our shared understanding

TPP and Tipping Point Foundation uphold many common values, including a belief in the sanctity of all life. For Tipping Point Foundation, this belief informs its very methodology, aimed at:

  • Preserving the future: Using science and technology to avoid natural or man-made cataclysmic events, ensuring inhabitability for current and future generations of all species.
  • Valuing all life equally: Instilling a philosophy of guardianship, not exploitation, of other species.
    Maximizing the quality of all life: The elimination of suffering for all species.

Similarly, for TPP, we support movements that spread “compassion consciousness”—or compassion for all beings, human and non-human. We recognize the profound suffering created by our global system of animal agriculture, which has been shown to be by far the greatest single contributor to the environmental destruction of our planet, from water usage to rainforests destroyed, to greenhouse gases released in the process of raising animals for food.

Accordingly, this partnership will specifically support projects within the Animal Rights movement that aim to effectively reduce greenhouse gas emissions and animal suffering through the consumption of conventionally farmed meat or seafood. By supporting projects that work toward animal advocacy and the well-being of the environment, TPP and Tipping Point Foundation support each other’s goals for a safer, more compassionate world.

Building movements for change

For this partnership, we are willing to fund any project in any location which works towards the goal of compassion for all, even if it does not advocate specifically for an end goal of veganism – that is, incremental approaches are something we will consider within this program.
Projects of particular interest are:

  • Policy and/or regulatory efforts intended to promote meat alternatives, especially to institutional consumers, such as schools.
  • Educational efforts on the perils of animal farming, including environment, animal welfare, health, etc.
  • Social programs aiming to reduce meat consumption through flexitarian agendas

We are focused on what it takes to support the growth of projects addressing industrial agriculture outside of the US and Western Europe and supporting the emergence of connected and powerful movements within these regions.

Do you have an idea for a project? Apply today!

As part of this partnership, TPP will be granting 25 x $1,000 grants to leaders within the global movement through both an open general application process and through submission of nominations for funding from a team of nominators related to TPP. We invite you to apply today!

For more information about our partnership with Tipping Point Foundation and the types of projects we support, see our Program Objectives page.

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In the heart of Nkwen Bamenda III Sub Division, Northwest region of Cameroon, the pilot project "Youth and Visual Arts Activism for Social Change" unfolded at Teken Quarter Youth Community Hall. This initiative, running from January to April 2023, targeted fifteen disadvantaged youths—including school dropouts, drug addicts, and other vulnerable groups. The project, supported by a seed grant, was launched by the Collective Arts Development Association (CADA), which provided six art facilitators. These experts delivered extensive training in various artistic skills, from sketching and drawing on canvas boards to graphic design and T-shirt printing.

Participants were introduced to the fundamentals of colors, composition, and proportions, along with practical applications in screen printing on diverse materials like jeans, nylon, and polyester. The primary goal of the project was to leverage art and social entrepreneurship as viable alternatives to drug use, abuse, crime, and poverty in the local community. Furthermore, the project included an outreach program involving sixth-grade pupils from the Government Primary School in Teken Quarter.

The success of this pilot paved the way for a flagship initiative titled "Empowering Marginalized Youths through Life Skill Education Art and Entrepreneurship Skill Development." This ongoing program offers six-month intensive training sessions to thirty disadvantaged youths, teaching them not only visual and graphic arts but also audio-visual skills and crafts essential for economic independence and social inclusion. Moreover, the program includes mental health education, counseling, rehabilitation strategies, and connects participants with mental health professionals as needed, continuing to transform lives thanks to the foundational support of The Pollination Project grant.

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WINNERS!!
Our grantees Manjushree Abhinav and Aanchal Raturi won the Swarnali Roy Vegan Advocacy Awards 2024 🌟 🌟 🌟 🌟 🌟 

Manjushree received a grant for her project "My planet and my plate", inspiring students to become climate activists themselves, to plant the seed of change into the hearts and minds of students, hoping that these seeds will sprout into far-reaching effects. 

Aanchal founded Project Re-Learn, conducting workshops in Uttaranchal colleges to sensitize future agriculturists about ethical practices. 

Join us in congratulating these two incredible heartivists! 🧡 

@hsi_india 
@hsiglobal 
@manjushreeabhinav 
@earthling_anna_raturi 

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🌟 Volunteer Week 🌟  Celebrating our family of Grant Advisors!

Today we celebrate our grant advisors dedicated to #animalprotection .

🔸 April King (Montenegro/United States) 
🔸 Elphas Ongongo (Kenya) 
🔸 Mohini Sharma (India) 
🔸 Evans Okumu (Kenya) 
🔸 Fernanda García Naranjo Ortega (Mexico)
🔸 Leandro Franz (Brazil) 
🔸 Jeremy Gregory (United States)
🔸 Kate Luke (Australia)
🔸 Andrew Alexander (United States) 

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@kotorkitties 
@littleoaksanctuary 

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