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Material Innovation Initiative — Plant-Based Fashion Alternatives

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  • Portfolio Area: Alternatives to Animal Products
  • Focus Area: Farm Animal Welfare
  • Category: Global Health & Wellbeing
  • Organization Name: Material Innovation Initiative
  • Amount: $200,000

  • Award Date: November 2020

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    Grant investigators: Lewis Bollard and Amanda Hungerford

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    Open Philanthropy recommended a grant of $200,000 over two years to the Material Innovation Initiative (MII) to support work promoting plant-based alternatives to animal-based fashion. This funding is intended to enable MII to hire a Senior Material Scientist, who will promote alternatives to silk and fur by connecting fashion companies with promising alternatives, providing support to plant-based alternatives start-ups, and working with academic researchers.

    This falls within our focus area of farm animal welfare.

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