The Voiceless Grants Program focuses exclusively on the root causes of animal exploitation and works to shift the anti-animal values, beliefs and assumptions that shape our political, social, legal and economic systems.

The Voiceless Grants Program aims to inspire and support a new generation of changemakers in animal protection through its Theory of Change strategy.

Voiceless invests in, encourages and empowers visionary people and transformative ideas that address the root causes of anthropocentric attitudes and focus on important reforms to our social and legal systems.

We are investing in projects that are disruptive and challenge the status quo. These include approaches that disrupt dominant anthropocentric attitudes, reform all versions of animal exploitation and legalised animal cruelty, and that promote animal flourishing.

Voiceless Impact Grants

Funding: $10,000-$15,000 AUD per grant
Status: Open for expressions of interest and pre-application
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Designed for transformative, project-based initiatives that drive systemic change for animals. These grants support proven changemakers with innovative ideas who are challenging the status quo through their work. Impact Grant recipients are working towards meaningful, measurable improvements in animal protection and can demonstrate their work success both quantitatively and qualitatively.

Voiceless Seed and Booster Grants

Funding: $5,000 AUD per grant
Status: Open for expressions of interest and pre-application
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Grants for smaller, grassroots projects making a big difference and ideas worth growing.

• Voiceless Seed Grants offer foundational funding for early-stage ideas, pilot programs, or emerging voices in the movement, helping promising concepts take their first steps.

• Voiceless Booster Grantsbolsters under-resourced initiatives working to protect animals in new and impactful ways, whether locally or globally.

Sherman Foundation x Voiceless Collaboration Grants & Prizes

Funding Eligibility: Australian DGR-accredited organisations only
Status: Invitation Only

A joint initiative between the Sherman Foundation and Voiceless, these invitation-only grants and prizes provide support for high-impact Australian organisations and educational institutions advancing long-term, systems-based solutions and alternatives to animal suffering. Together, we invest in strategic projects as well as educational and research programs to create social, cultural, and legal reform for animals.

The Voiceless Grants Program is open but not limited to animal advocacy organisations, animal lawyers and law educators, humane educators, animal studies academics and creatives, environmental and wildlife scientists, First Nations groups, and diverse community and religious groups.

Preference will be given to small to medium-sized not-for-profit organisations and/or animal advocates. Organisations with comparatively large annual revenues will not be prioritised. In Australia, for example, this would be an organisation with a revenue of over AUD $3m.

Voiceless may be open to opportunities for 'impact investing' with small grassroots companies or start-ups with bright, innovative ideas in the vegan space. All profits will be returned to Voiceless's work.

• Phone: (02) 9357 0773
• Email: grants@voiceless.org.au