By Jon Camp

We at Vegan Outreach are proud to announce a special milestone! For the first time in our storied 20-year history, we have reached over one million college students in a single semester with the plight of farmed animals!

For the fall semester of our Adopt a College program, over one million of today’s youth were personally handed a Vegan Outreach booklet. We reached students in 48 of the US states, as well as throughout Canada, Australia, Denmark, and Italy.

This was not an easy task. It involved activists putting in thousands and thousands of miles on the road, standing day after day on their feet for hours on end in all weather conditions; and in the case of VO’s Canada Outreach Coordinator, Kristin Lamy, getting stuck in Buffalo for multiple days during a snowstorm.

We’re always hearing from individuals who have gone vegetarian or vegan as a result of our hard work — individuals who never thought much about their food choices and who are now actively working to create a better world for animals, thanks to getting a Vegan Outreach booklet

This accomplishment has been a team effort, and it came about thanks to the legendary dedication of VO’s tireless outreach coordinators and volunteers, the great animal advocacy organizations we team up with, and our thoughtful and generous donors who make this work happen in the first place.

Thanks to everyone who played a role in this historic milestone on behalf of animals!

We are now carrying a bunch of fun new items to help you show your vegan pride and spread a compassionate lifestyle!

Bumper Sticker – Choose Compassion

Measures 9″ x 4″

$2 | Purchase from Order Form

Bumper Sticker – Chicks Dig Vegans

Measures 9″ x 4″

$2 | Purchase from Order Form

Bumper Sticker – Cruelty Sucks Go Vegan

Measures 9″ x 4″

$2 | Purchase from Order Form

Bumper Sticker – I Heart Vegan Outreach

Measures 9″ x 4″

$2 | Purchase from Order Form

Bumper Sticker – I’d Rather Be Leafleting

Measures 9″ x 4″

$2 | Purchase from Order Form

Bookmark – I Heart Vegan Outreach

Double-sided, measuring 6″ x 2″

$1 | Purchase from Order Form

Bookmark – Chicks Dig Vegans

Double-sided, measuring 6″ x 2″

$1 | Purchase from Order Form

Magnet – I Heart Vegan Outreach

Measures 4.75″ x 2″

$1 | Purchase from Order Form

Sticker – White VO Logo

Measures 3″ x 3″

$1 | Purchase from Order Form

Sticker – Black VO Logo

Measures 3″ x 3″

$1 | Purchase from Order Form

It’s Easy to Start Eating Vegan

by Rebecca Gilbert

A beginner’s guide to help you start eating vegan:

• Easy egg and dairy substitutions
• Plant-based protein sources
• Sample meal plans and tasty, easy-to-make basic recipes
• Tips for navigating social situations

$14.95 | Purchase from Order Form

Vegucated

Three People. Six Weeks. One Challenge.
Best Documentary 2011 – Toronto Film Festival

More info.
$15 | Purchase from Order Form

By Toni Okamoto

Vegan Girl Scout Cookies exist! But sadly, not everywhere. The Girl Scouts use two baking companies: ABC Bakers and Little Brownie. The two companies are broken up geographically and serve different counties. If your county serves Little Brownie Cookies (you can see on the box), then you have the option of Thin Mints, but if you have ABC Baker Girl Scouts you have four delightful, delectable, delicious options!

It’s hard to know whether your local troop has all the vegan goods, but you can try giving them a call or reaching out to them on social media. There’s also this nifty tool to help you locate cookie stands nearest you: http://www.girlscouts.org/program/gs_cookies/cookies.asp

The four vegan options available from ABC Bakers are: Thin Mints, Peanut Butter Patties, Lemonades and Thanks-A-Lot.

Only about a month before you see cookie stands popping up near you! I can’t wait!

By Lisa Rimmert

Black Friday. Cyber Monday. There’s been a lot of focus this past weekend on shopping. Today, dubbed Giving Tuesday, let’s turn our attention toward spending money in a different way: donating to a cause we care about!

Donate $20 (or more!) to Vegan Outreach today, and we will send you a complimentary copy of Rebecca Gilbert’s book, It’s Easy to Start Eating Vegan!” Your donation will help Vegan Outreach print and distribute more vegan literature and inspire more people to go vegan in 2015!

Give because you care. Give because it feels good. Give because you want the book! Whatever your reason, your spending today will prevent the suffering of farmed animals.

Thank you!

By Lisa Rimmert, Donor Relations Manager, Vegan Outreach

As Rebecca Gilbert’s book title says, “It’s Easy to Start Eating Vegan!” And you know what else is easy? Donating $20 to Vegan Outreach today and receiving a complimentary copy of the book!

Donate at least $20 today or tomorrow, and with your book, you’ll get practical tips from Gilbert, like:

• Easy egg and dairy substitutions
• Ideas to stock your vegan pantry
• Plant-based protein sources
• Sample meal plans and tasty, easy-to-make basic recipes
• Tips for navigating social situations

The book is a terrific resource for your transition to a plant-based diet, and your donation to Vegan Outreach is a terrific way to help spread the vegan lifestyle to many others!

What could be better? Well, since you asked… Your donation will be matched dollar-for-dollar, so your $20 will become $40! A gift today will double your impact for farmed animals, and get you a copy of “It’s Easy to Start Eating Vegan!” to get you started on your journey to a plant-based diet!

Promotion ends Tuesday, Dec. 2 at midnight Pacific Time. Dollar-for-dollar matching on all donations ends December 31st.

Donate by Clicking Here

Happy Thanksgiving! May you see turkeys (and all animals) as beautiful individuals and choose a cruelty-free holiday meal.

With compassion,

Vegan Outreach

 

Are You a Member of the Vegan Club?

Vegan Outreach Cofounder & Executive Director, Jack Norris, has been known to say that “We want a vegan world, not a vegan club.”

That said, as we work toward a vegan world, Vegan Outreach wants to build a really big vegan club!

Become a member of Vegan Outreach today by donating at any of the levels listed on our new website – from $30 per year to become an official Member of the Vegan Club, up to $50,000 to become an Advisor of Vegans and provide high-level guidance to help VO reduce animal suffering. Check out the thank you gifts available at every level. And if somewhere in the middle works best for you, consider becoming a member of the Vegan Police at $300 annually (or $25 a month). At this level, you’ll receive a Vegan Police T-shirt – available only by joining the force!

And what better time to donate than right now, when your donation will be matched dollar-for-dollar! Which brings us to…

Year-End Donation Matching Has Begun!

Your Contribution Now = DOUBLE the Booklets =

DOUBLE the Vegans = DOUBLE the Animals Spared

From now until December 31, when you donate to Vegan Outreach, your impact for the animals will be doubled. A small group of generous donors has stepped up to match every donation dollar-for-dollar up to $155,000! That means your investment in Vegan Outreach will reach twice as many people with messages of compassion – and save twice as many animals from suffering in factory farms!

Your contributions to Vegan Outreach directly increase the number of people who stop eating animals. And today, you can do twice as much! That’s twice as many booklets, twice as many new vegans, and twice as many animals spared!

Thank you to everyone who has already made a year-end gift, and to all our supporters who give automatic monthly and quarterly donations!

2014 has been an amazing year for Vegan Outreach!

Our total booklet distribution has reached 24.4 million since our inception.

As of October 31, we have already sent out 2.6 million booklets for 2014.

Adopt a College leafleters have placed booklets into the hands of 12.2 million students since we started keeping track in the fall of 2003.

This fall, our leafleters are on pace to have the best semester of college leafleting ever! Through November 10, they have given booklets to 845,401 students at 752 schools, well surpassing the previous record year for the same time period (800,161 booklets at 701 schools in fall of 2013).

Thank you to all of Vegan Outreach’s amazing outreach coordinators and volunteers for your hard work, and to all the donors who make it possible!

Here is a sample of the feedback we receive on a daily basis:

I reached 970 students at Florida A&M University today. The take rate was excellent most the day, with many seen holding their booklet a while after they’d gotten it from me. Many students stopped with comments on how interesting they found the literature, and a bunch passing by after said they’d been moved to give up eating pigs, cows, or chickens. Three came back to me after getting the leaflets and said they’d been thinking of going veg, and were surprised finding out how many substitutes there were to choose from now.

One student named Chris has a mom who is vegan, and said he’d been wanting to try it for a while. Another student said she’d been feeling bad about eating animals already, but had no idea how to eat differently. Both got Guide to Cruelty-Free Eating booklets plus veg shopping guides and said they’d be giving veg a go after today.

A student named Kenya [above] came back a few minutes after getting her leaflet, asking what it was about and was also curious how she might get started changing her eating habits. She was really happy hearing about all the alternatives available everywhere now, and asked me for good recommendations on where to get started. She also got extra info; and after hearing what ideas I had on how to transition easily, she said she was going right from our meeting to the supermarket to stock up on all the veg groceries she could find!

A number of other conversations came off really positively through the day too. Really good visit here – I’m hoping we’ll be hearing even more results come next time.

—Yuri Mitzkewich, 10/17/14