Timeline Summary

Our highlights over the years...

2026

Featured in Forbes Mexico - "A Well-Fed World: fortalecer la resiliencia climática a través de la alimentación."
Published book and website - The New Sentience anthology, edited and designed by Communications Director, Ashley Capps and Allison Titus.
Featured Communications Director Ashley Capps for Int'l Women's Month by In Defense of Animals' webinar - "Vegan Women Activists for Animal Justice."
Featured founder Dawn Moncrief in Valiant CEO - "Climate Leadership Through food: Why Institutions Should Prioritize Plant Proteins."
Expanded Feeding Equity Social Justice Fund in partnership with Gregory J Reiter Memorial Fund.
Launched Farmed Animal Care & Rescue Fund
Introduced Plant-Based Defaults
Introduced One Health Initiative webpage & blog post

2025

Featured founder Dawn Moncrief and Plants-4-Hunger programs in featured in full-length article in USA TODAY.
Featured No Animal Gifting and Plants-4-Hunger programs as Op-Ed from founder Dawn Moncrief in International Business Times.
Featured our Planetary Pulse Project in the UN SDG2 Beans Is How sub-group for International Women's Day.
Presented at COP30 United Nations Climate Conference (Brazil) on Plant-Forward School Meals panel at the Bread for the World event.
Launched PHRESH (Plant-Based Hunger Relief & EcoSolutions Hub) with Youth Climate Save and PAN International with Plant-Based Hunger Relief Directory.
Launched Plant Milks R Cool
Launched Peanut Butter at Cafes Petition
Launched Climate Food Fund & Other Regranting Funds
Introduced Video Shorts
Introduced Oceans Campaign
Introduced Beans Not Bugs (precursor to Beans Not Beings)
Partnered with Plant-Powered School Meals Coalition
Partnered with New Roots Institute for Climate Guide co-branding
Partnered with Institute for Future Food Systems (and mutual Board Directors).

Funded in 2025: Record-breaking $1.68+ million in fiscal sponsorships, more than $1.73M in total grants when including Plants-4-Hunger feeding grants ($18M+ total grants & sponsorships in 100 countries since 2009). Want details? Check out our 2025 Fiscal Sponsorsorship Graphs.

2024

Launched AWFW's How You Bean! campaign & joined Beans Is How (UN SDG2 Advocacy Hub).
Partnered with Malnutrition Matters (and joined as Board Director).
Partnered with A Just World (and joined as Board Director).
Partnered with Youth Climate Save (and mutual Board Directors).
Partnered with Physicians Association for Nutrition (PAN) International, including Climate Food Guide co-branding (and mutual Board Directors).
Expanded AWFW's Fiscal Sponsorships program (and paused advocacy grants).

2023

Featured in George Washington University Magazine.
Launched AWFW's Planetary Pulse Project with Seed Programs International (current)
Thrive Philanthropy: Founding Board Director (2023-2025).
Expanded and rebranded EcoFood Guide to AWFW's Climate-Friendly Food Guide (+co-branding outreach).

2022

Partnered with ProVeg on the first Food4Climate Pavilion at COP28 in Egypt. In addition to providing six passes leveraging our new UNFCCC Observer Status, we sponsored Food Security Day, with funding and session speakers for: “Food, Not Feed: The Potential of Plant-Based Foods for Food Security.”
Partnered with ProVeg and provided $100K seed grant to launch AVA Summit (now independent).
Launched AWFW's Ukraine Food Relief Fund (still active).

2021

Received official United Nations UNFCCC Observer Status and sharable passes to ongoing annual events.
Promoted to Food and Climate Alliance Co-Chair and website content director - designed and launched new website.
Launched AWFW's Grazing Facts education and outreach campaign in partnership with Center for Biological Diversity.
Partnered with Plant-Based Data as fiscal sponsor (and board director).

2020

Launched AWFW’s Eco-Food Guide collaboration with partners Earth Day Network (changed to online only to start - will evolve into printed Climate-Friendly Food Guide and expanded Earth Day advocacy).
Launched AWFW's Covid Plant-Based Food Relief (2020-2022).
Launched AWFW's Feeding Equity Fund (2020-2024) awarding grants to grassroots activists and groups providing plant-based food to those working for racial justice in their communities.
Partnered with Feed The Polls (2020 only) to distribute 10,000 plant-based meals to voters in food insecure communities waiting in long lines on election day.
Partnered with Switch for Good and Mothers Against Dairy for USDA Ditch Dairy campaign.
Partnered with Seed Programs International for World Food Day with seed sharing campaign (will evolve into our Planetary Pulse Project in 2023).

2019

Joined the Food and Climate Alliance
Organized AWFW's campaign to feed people hurt by gov't shutdown.
Partnered with Free From Harm and Mothers Against Dairy to support Fairlife Dairy Boycott.
Organized AWFW's Good for Your Heart Fundraiser.
Featured in Jo-Anne McArthur’s (We Animals) Unbound Project.

2018

Partnered with Brighter Green, Johns Hopkins CLF, and Global Forest Coalition to sponsor Eating for the Planet event and two-week exhibit at Bonn Climate Change Conference.
Beneficiary of Miyoko's Giving Back Program.
Organized AWFW's Hurricane Florence Animal Rescue Fundraiser.
Co-organized the Animal Rights 2018 National Conference (based on previous experience organizing AR Conferences 2002-2008).
ProVeg International: founding US Board Director (current) and US office (initially).

2017

Organized AWFW's Vegan Powered Race Car campaign in Daytona Beach (FL) and Talladega (AL) at funder’s request to connect with new audiences.
Launched AWFW's Fiscal Sponsorship Program (2017-current).
Published "Less Meat Takes a Bite Out of Global Hunger" in the anthology The Reducetarian Solution.
Partnered with Mothers Against Dairy to launch 10-Day #PlantMilkChallenge which leverages the new World Plant Milk Day (created by ProVeg and Plant-Based News). Will evolve into Plant Milks R Cool in 2025.

2016

Partnered with the United Nations Green Group in Geneva to add vegan food and follow-up AWFW in-person presentation after their two showings of Cowspiracy (audience 200) for AWFW's World Food Day UN presentation.
Presented TED-style talk at the influential Change Food Fest, “Global Hunger: What's Meat Got To Do With It”.
Attended the International Society for Ecological Economics: Transforming the Economy: Sustaining Food, Water, Energy & Justice in DC.
Co-organized Very Vegan Food Drive with partners Amp Your Good, Vegfund, and the Food Recovery Network that provided 3,144 pounds of food for people in need.
Launched AWFW's Let Live Coalition (against DIY slaughter, including protest and media campaign).

2015

Organized AWFW's Global Food Sustainability Conference in partnership with Vegfest UK in Brighton, England.
Partnered with FIAPO to sponsor two-week Living Free campaign tour throughout seven cities in India.
Purchased 5-acre homestead for veganic resource center in partnership with Awali near Atlanta, Georgia.
Presented at the Yale Center for Climate Change & Health: From Plate to Planet.
Expanded/revamped AWFW's Humane Facts website and campaign (originated in 2007).

2014

Expanded AWFW's Vegan Food Stamp Challenge.
Published: “Hunger, Meat, and the Banality of Evil” in Circles of Compassion book.
Attended Food Production and Climate Conference organized by the Renewable Natural Resources Foundation in DC.
Attended Food For Tomorrow Conference organized by New York Times in New York.
Beyond Carnism: Founding Board Director and U.S. HQ (2014-present).

2013

Expanded AWFW's Worldwide Vegan Bake Sale (former grantee) raising about $50K annually for plant-based and animal rescue orgs in addition to promoting plant-based foods (especially egg and dairy alternatives).
Partnered with Kitchen Gardeners International (KGI) - Sow It Forward campaign (2013-2015).
Sponsored Justicia sin Barreras 14-city tour throughout Mexico.
Organized AWFW's Vegan Food Stamp Challenge (2013-2015) - In honor of World Food Day, eat on $30/day (food stamp allowance), share experiences online and/or donate saved money to plant-based nonprofit.

2012

Presented at DC think tank summit Feeding the World While the Earth Cooks organized by New America Foundation - “Where’s the Beef? Your Hamburger in 2050” panel.
Partnered with the Federation of Indian Animal Protection Organizations (FIAPO) on a joint program for large-scale vegan outreach in India (included design and printing of handouts in Hindi and English, with special attention to the harms of dairy).
Co-organized second Vegan Food Partners Summit in Ethiopia
Partnered with Humane Society International and BG to present “Global Trends: Meat, Hunger, and Climate Change” to grad school students at the multidisciplinary conference: Global Diet and Sustainability: Assessing the Negative Externalities of Animal Agriculture.
Partnered with IFA and BG in Ethiopia with UN reps: UNEP, UNDP, FAO, UNESCO.

2011

Featured in VegNews Magazine “10 Nonprofits You Need to Know” Nov/Dec 2011 issue.
Published “Designing a Landscape for Sustainability” paper via our Landscape Specialist, Molly Phemister in ActionBioscience, online peer-reviewed science journal.
Launched AWFW’s PB&J Campaign (adopted from grantee).
Launched AWFW’s Dark Side of Animal Gifting (aka No Animal Gifting - Plants-4-Hunger companion campaign).
Launched AWFW’s Film for Thought campaign providing free equipment and funding.
Founding partner of new Pan African Animal Welfare Alliance (stemming from 2010 AAWC’s farmed animal working group).
Partnered with Center for Science in the Public Interest to revitalize and relaunch our PBJ Campaign for their new Food Day campaign (Oct 24) as a national grassroots campaign.
Partnered with By Any Greens Necessary for We Feed Our People MLK event in DC (2011-2013).

2010

Launched AWFW's GreenFoodsRCool (diet change resources).
Launched AWFW's Earth Day & Climate Campaigns (ongoing outreach campaigns).
Co-created Vegan Food Partners Conference in Ethiopia in partnership with International Fund for Africa (IFA) and Ethiopian Vegan Association (EVA).
Relaunched EVA’s weekly feeding program in Addis Ababa partnership with IFA and Food Not Bombs.
Sponsored and presented at Africa Animal Welfare Conference (AAWC) - organized by the Africa Network for Animal Welfare in partnership with the United Nations Environment Programme in Nairobi (founding member of farmed animal working group with IFA, BG, and other attendees).
Partnered with Brighter Green (BG) to attend the UN climate conference COP16 in Mexico.
Organized AWFW's Ideal Food and Farming event for International Year for Biodiversity.

2009

Launched A Well-Fed World as a 501c3 program-based organization - formally approved on September 3, 2009!
Launched AWFW's Plants-4-Hunger (P4H) hunger relief program beyond online education campaign to gift-donation and outreach program.
Launched AWFW's Global Grants program.