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Billions of animals each year are treated cruelly on factory farms. We believe that raising awareness of current practices and pushing for reform could reduce animal suffering by enormous amounts, yet we see relatively little attention on this issue from major animal welfare groups.
For more on why we chose farm animal welfare as a focus area, see our public cause report (September 2013), used in our process for selecting focus areas.
Recent grants
A complete list of our grants in the area of farm animal welfare can be found here. Grants include:
Animal Equality — Cage-Free and Broiler Welfare
Animal Charity Evaluators — General Support (2019)
theguardian.org — Journalism on Factory Farming and Animal Cruelty (2019)
The Good Food Institute — International Work (2019)
Global Animal Partnership — Farm Animal Welfare Activities (2019)
Other content
Farm Animal Welfare Newsletter Archive
Blog post: Will Companies Make Good on Cage-Free Pledges?
Blog post: Suggestions for Individual Donors from Open Philanthropy Project Staff - 2018
Blog post: Fish: The Forgotten Farm Animal
Blog post: New Report on the Welfare Differences Between Cage and Cage-Free Housing
Blog post: Why Are the US Corporate Cage-Free Campaigns Succeeding?
Blog post: Initial Grants to Support Corporate Cage-free Reforms
Lewis Bollard
Lewis Bollard leads Open Philanthropy’s work on farm animal welfare. Prior to joining Open Philanthropy, he worked as Policy Advisor & International Liaison to the CEO at The Humane Society of the United States (HSUS). Previously, Lewis worked as a litigation fellow at HSUS and an associate consultant at Bain & Company. Lewis graduated from Harvard University with a BA in Social Studies, and has a JD from Yale Law School. He joined Open Philanthropy in October 2015.