Our Impact
Hive serves as a movement multiplier, growing global impact for farmed animals. We connect 5,000+ advocates in 100+ countries with the people, knowledge, and opportunities they need to reach their potential.
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"I can’t imagine the animal protection movement without Hive. It’s been instrumental in facilitating introductions and establishing connections".
Liz Wheeler, Philanthropy Manager - Faunalytics
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“I can't say enough good things about the importance of Hive for the animal advocacy movement. We finally have a place where people around the world can connect [...]".
Suzie Gilbert, Founder - Strategy Consultant
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"Hive has been invaluable in helping me make a greater impact for animals by connecting me to opportunities and a network I might not have discovered otherwise."
Abhishek Pandey, CEO - Sentient
An impactful connection can
change your life
Your new connections may refer you to a job or other opportunity. They may become a collaborator, or share a helpful idea, lived experience, or resource relevant to your work. Perhaps they, in turn, connect you to someone else who ends up becoming one of your friends in the movement or a mentor.
At Hive we intentionally cultivate the conditions and spaces where these impactful connections are more likely to happen for our community members.
Hive focuses on connections because they have been neglected in the farmed animal advocacy movement. Traditional routes of networking, such as in-person conferences, are difficult for a global movement that is funding-constrained. This leaves a large proportion of advocates lacking resources, support, and opportunities.
We see this gap as an opportunity to help all advocates get connected and collaborate on meaningful work for farmed animals.
Our Impact as of May 2026
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60+
Advocates have secured paid roles
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5,000+
Advocates receive the movement's essential biweekly global update, Hive Highlights
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5,000+
Advocates personally onboarded into the largest effective animal advocacy online community
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60+
Advocates have secured volunteering roles
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20+
New projects and initiatives launched
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10+
Advocates and projects received funding
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92%**
Feel a stronger connection to the movement*
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78%**
Feel more motivated to contribute to advocacy efforts
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78%**
Feel more likely to stay involved long-term
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** Percentage of 2024 Hive Community Survey respondents, out of 146 total respondents.
Four ways we measure the impact of Hive’s work
One: Lead indicators
We rely on a variety of lead indicators that are indicative of a healthy and sustainably growing community. We measure lead indicators across all of our programs. These include:
Weekly active users in the Hive Slack Community
Monthly views of the Hive Highlights Newsletter
Participation rates in Global Ambassador Program initiatives
Two: High Impact Outcomes
We carefully track High Impact Outcomes, tangible outcomes that individual advocates or organizations have achieved with our help.
A High Impact Outcome is defined as any instance in which an advocate or organization reports achieved one of the following specific results as a result of Hive’s work, meaning that they would likely not have happened without Hive:
Job placement
Volunteer placement
New project or initiative started
Funding received
Giving What We Can Pledge signed
Course, training, or mentorship program placement completed
These outcomes are emphasized because they enable advocates to realize their full potential and allow organizations to improve their work through securing the right talent.
Three: Testimonials
Stories from the advocates and organizations in our community help us understand the impact of our work. One particularly valuable aspect of testimonials is that they illustrate nuanced aspects of Hive’s impact that may not be captured in High Impact Outcomes or lead indicators.
Hear directly from our community on how they benefit from Hive, on our testimonial Wall of Love.
Four: Community Surveys
In 2023 and 2024, we conducted annual community surveys to surface High Impact Outcomes, as well as more subtle aspects of how Hive helps advocates reach their potential.
Our community reports tangible belonging and sustainability benefits. These include a stronger sense of connection, more motivation to contribute, and more. Learn more in our 2024 Community Survey results.
Hive’s Year in Review Reports
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2023
Sharing accomplishments and lessons from our first full year. Published as Impactful Animal Advocacy, our former name.
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2024
A deep dive into Hive’s strengths, challenges, and values, our community members, our impact and what it takes to run Hive
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2025
Sharing Hive’s track record, new programs, and our 2026 plans and funding gap
Learn about Hive’s theory of change
By cultivating online spaces through our Hive Slack Community, centralizing and enhancing access to key information through the Hive Highlights and Hive Slack Threads newsletters, and facilitating strategic connections, we will increase and improve knowledge exchange and create more and stronger connections between farmed animal advocates and farmed animal advocacy organizations.
This will lead to increased support for existing advocates and projects, and increased collaboration between advocates.
These in turn will lead to existing farmed animal advocates and farmed animal advocacy projects being more impactful, as well as more impactful farmed animal advocacy projects being started, ultimately reducing more animal suffering or reducing animal suffering faster.
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“Thanks to Hive, I found a volunteer research role with a high-impact organisation [Animal Policy International] aligned to my research interests".
Catherine Jefferson, Independent Researcher
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"Within a few days of my services being posted in the Hive Slack and newsletter, I was able to secure a new client. It was such an easy win-win made possible by Hive".
Amruza Aryenish Birdie, Leadership Coach
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"I'm happy to say that I've found my dream job [...] I actually found it through Hive! [...] So, take advantage of the networking opportunities here!"
Rakefet Cohen Ben-Arye, China Vegan Society
Learn about Hive’s 2026 strategy
In 2026, we are building a digital home for farmed animal advocates worldwide.
Our year-round, globally inclusive online hub empowers 5,000+ advocates across 100+ countries to find the people, resources, and support they need to move from first connection to lasting contribution.
In Hive’s 4th year, we are particularly focused on supporting advocates across Asia and Latin America, regions underserved and underfunded by the movement. Our goal is to become–and continue to be–a truly global community.
We remain focused on Hive Slack as our core program. It creates impact by bringing advocates into the same “virtual room” that nurtures a culture of support and agency, and a focus on effectiveness. To continue to provide value, we’re cultivating partnerships across the movement and more deeply integrating Hive’s own programs. We are focusing less on growing our Slack community and more on deepening engagement and experimenting with scalable ways to provide our hands-on community-building strategy to a growing number of advocates.
In addition, we will scale up Hive Highlights, our newsletter and mailing list, to grow beyond and reach audiences that we would otherwise not be able to reach through our Slack community. We want to deliver curated resources, news, and opportunities into anyone’s inbox who shares our mission in ending factory farming.
Hive’s 2026 strategy is our current hypothesis for how we can create an outsized impact for farmed animals. As movement multipliers, we help advocates get meaningfully connected to the people, insights, and opportunities that help them thrive.
Grow Hive’s impact with us
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Share your story
Submit a testimonial to our Wall of Love, sharing your experience while helping us understand our impact.
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Build with us
Build the movement that farmed animals need, by joining Hive’s CoNectar, our monthly giving community.
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Join our community
Impact for farmed animals grows one step at a time. Join the Hive Slack community to take your advocacy further.