Compassion in World Farming — Farm Animal Welfare in Asia and Latin America

Open Philanthropy recommended a grant of £458,409 (approximately $573,882 at the time of conversion) over two years to Compassion in World Farming International to support its corporate outreach on cage-free reforms and broiler chicken welfare in the Asia-Pacific region and in Latin America.

This follows our January 2022 support and falls within our focus area of farm animal welfare, specifically within our interest in cage-free reforms and broiler chicken welfare.

Compassion in World Farming — Regranting for Farm Animal Welfare in Asia

Open Philanthropy recommended a grant of $170,000 to Compassion in World Farming (CIWF) to support regranting to grassroots organizations and individuals in Indonesia, Japan, and South Korea advocating for farmed animal welfare. This funding represents an “exit grant” to CIWF’s regranting program that will provide it with a year of support, though we are not ending our support for their other programs.

This follows our November 2020 support and falls within our focus area of farm animal welfare, specifically within our interest in farm animal welfare in Asia.

Compassion in World Farming — Broiler Chicken Welfare and Efforts to End Cages and Crates

Open Philanthropy recommended a grant of £2,651,304 (approximately $3,559,572 at the time of conversion) over 2.5 years to Compassion in World Farming (CIWF) to support its farm animal welfare work in Europe. CIWF will use the grant to continue its corporate outreach on broiler chicken welfare and efforts to end the use of cages and crates for all farmed animal species.

This follows our July 2021 support and falls within our focus area of farm animal welfare.

Compassion in World Farming — Fish Welfare and Efforts to End Cages (2021)

Fish welfare exhibition. (Photo courtesy of Compassion in World Farming.)

Grant investigators: Lewis Bollard and Amanda Hungerford

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Open Philanthropy recommended four grants totaling £3,648,000 over three years ($5,055,105 at the time of conversion) to Compassion in World Farming (CIWF) to support work on fish welfare and efforts to end the use of cages and crates for all farmed animal species in Europe. Our farm animal welfare team believes that these programs have built momentum and are well-positioned to seize the current window of opportunity in Europe.

This follows our September 2019 support and falls within our focus area of farm animal welfare.

Compassion in World Farming — Farm Animal Welfare in Asia


Grant investigator: Amanda Hungerford

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Open Philanthropy recommended two grants totaling £1,083,600 ($1,391,971 at the time of conversion) to Compassion in World Farming (CIWF) to support its work to advance farm animal welfare in Asia. CIWF plans to engage in corporate outreach on poultry welfare and to re-grant funds to farm animal welfare groups throughout Asia.

This follows our September 2019 support and falls within our focus area of farm animal welfare.

The grant amount was updated in July 2022.

Compassion in World Farming — Fish Welfare and Efforts to End Cages (2019)

Talk at TEDxManzanares. (Photo courtesy of Compassion in World Farming)

Grant investigator: Lewis Bollard

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The Open Philanthropy Project recommended two grants totaling £1,759,701 over two years ($2,169,429 at the time of conversion) to Compassion in World Farming to support work on fish welfare and efforts to end the use of cages and crates for all farmed animal species in the UK and Europe. These funds will support staffing needs, marketing, social media, advocacy work, investigations, and technical and operational costs.

This follows our October 2017 support for work to end the use of cages and our January 2017 support for work on fish welfare, and falls within our focus area of farm animal welfare.

Compassion in World Farming — Organizational Development

Grant investigator: Lewis Bollard

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The Open Philanthropy Project recommended a grant of £8,000 ($10,720 at the time of conversion) to Compassion in World Farming (Compassion) for organizational development. This follows our October 2017 grant to Compassion.

This is a discretionary grant and falls within our focus area of farm animal welfare.