Our Impact
Empowering 4,500+ farmed animal advocates in 100+ countries to connect, collaborate, and amplify their impact.
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 (virtual) spaces where these impactful connections for our community members are more likely to happen.
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.
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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
Hive’s impact so far
As per November 2025, we count:
Learn more about Hive’s impact in our 2024 Year in Review.
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60+
Job Placements
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20+
Started a new project or initiative
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10+
Received funding
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60+
Volunteering Placements
How do we measure impact?
We rely on a variety of leading metrics that are indicative of a healthy and sustainably growing community, such as the number of weekly active users on our Slack space or the click count of our newsletters.
In addition to these, we also track along concrete, tangible wins for individual advocates, which we call High Impact Outcomes.
A High Impact Outcome is defined as any instance in which an advocate reports having 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 Placements
Volunteer Placements
New Project or Initiative started
Funding received
Giving Pledge signed
Course, Training, or Mentorship Placement
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. As such, a lot of the impact we may have is not only less tangible, but also unreported. If you have found Hive helpful in your advocacy, consider leaving a testimonial!
The Importance of Community
In early 2025 we conducted our second Annual Community Survey to better understand how Hive helps farmed animal advocates. We received a total of 146 responses. Here are some results:
You can find the full report here.
Hive’s Year in Review reports
2023 Year in Review (published under our previous name, Impactful Animal Advocacy)
What our community members say
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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
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.
Hive’s 2026 Strategy
We are building a digital home for farmed animal advocates worldwide.
Our year-round, globally inclusive online hub empowers 4,500+ 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.