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Record Yearfor WARPED TOUR OUTREACH! NEWS • FALL 2014 Dollar-for-Dollar Matching Opportunity Changing Lives Every. Single. Day. Jon Camp Inducted into Animal Rights Hall of Fame Team Vegan 2014 New Campus & Semester Records Set for Adopt a College and… record year FOR WARPED TOUR OUTREACH! Changing Lives Every. Single. Day. Vegan Outreach’s philosophy is that each sentient Welcome to the 2014 edition of Vegan Outreach News! individual has a right to his or her body and life. To that end, we promote living so as to contribute Vegan Outreach’s amazing activists are handing booklets directly to new to as little animal suffering and death as possible, focusing on “preaching to the convertible” with our people every single day—powerfully exposing the animals’ hidden plight booklets. Since Vegan Outreach’s founding in 1993, and convincing more and more individuals to make compassionate choices! over 24 million booklets have been distributed. Every single day, our efforts together are changing lives…and the world! FINANCIAL STATEMENT: FISCAL YEAR 2013–2014* TOTAL REVENUE: $1,088,259 You make all of this possible. Thank you so much TOTAL EXPENSES: $947,956 for being part of this vital work! FUNCTIONAL EXPENSES AS A PERCENT OF TOTAL EXPENSES: PROGRAMS (85%) SUPPORT SERVICES (9%) I READ A BOOKLET you gave my brother a couple FUNDRAISING (6%) of years ago and it changed my life! Thank you for your work! *Based on preliminary data “ —JESSICA, Millersville University student (left) PRESIDENT & EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR Jack Norris, RD BOARD MEMBER Mark Foy IF YOU’RE TRYING TO MAKE ME GO VEGETARIAN, IT’S WORKING. BOARD SECRETARY Kevin Gallagher —MILES, San Francisco State student (top of page) BOARD TREASURER Suzanne Haws BOARD MEMBER Melissa Li, MD “ EXECUTIVE VICE PRESIDENT Jon Camp I’M DOING IT. I think I’m gonna go vegetarian. DIRECTOR OF FINANCE —Bellevue College student/firefighter (right) DIRECTOR OF COMMUNICATIONS John Oberg GRAPHIC DESIGNER Lauren Panos “ OFFICE MANAGER Josie Moody ADVISOR Steve Kaufman, MD I’M NEVER EATING CHICKEN AGAIN! —Virginia Commonwealth University faculty member (left) PRIVACY POLICY Vegan Outreach does not share, sell, or trade any of our members’ information. “ I VOW TO NO LONGER BUY OR EAT EGGS, WE’D LOVE TO HEAR FROM YOU! and avoid products with egg ingredients. ); © Katkov | Dreamstime.com (chick on laptop) Vegan Outreach, POB 1916, Davis, CA 95617-1916 —JCR, posted to VO’s Facebook page VeganOutreach.org/contact “ Front cover photo: © Can Stock Photo Inc. / Tsekhmister Printed on recycled paper with soy inks Connect with VO Every. Single. Day. Be sure to keep up with our latest accomplishments, receive important news, and find out about new vegan foods! • Subscribe to our enewsletter and blog at VeganOutreach.org • Follow us on: Facebook.com/VeganOutreach Twitter.com/VeganOutreach Instagram.com/VeganOutreach © Enika | Dreamstime.com (chicks); Steve Erlsten (Miles); Kassy Ortega (Jessica, faculty member); Phil Letten (Bellevue student 2 VEGAN OUTREACH NEWS | FALL 2014 YESTERDAY SOMEONE PASSED ME a second time and I didn’t realize I’d handed him a leaflet earlier in the day, and he said, ‘You gave me one and I read through it and “I’m gonna give up meat.’ Totally made my whole weekend! —CAT LIGUORI, 8/25/14 While leafleting Florida International University, Linda Bower met Ashley and Crystal (left), who were blown away by the information in Compassionate Choices, and pledged to move towards being vegan. Gabriela (below, left) went veg after getting a VO booklet a year ago; now her boyfriend is almost vegetarian, and she wants to go vegan and get active! And after getting a Guide to Cruelty-Free Eating from Linda Bower (FIU students); © Alexander Shalamov | Dreamstime.com (pigs); Jon Camp (Alex) Jon Camp at Vanderbilt University in fall 2012, Alex (below, right) went from vegetarian to vegan and leafleted his campus last semester! Double Your Donation for the Animals! Of course, you’re a part of Vegan Outreach because you want to help animals as much as possible. And now through December 31, your donations will be doubled, I THOUGHT YESTERDAY WAS GOOD— t o d a y dollar for dollar! at San Diego City College was even better! Many people stopped a few feet away, read the leaflet right there, and then came Each and every fully tax-deductible back to ask questions. contribution to Vegan Outreach will “ change twice as many lives—you’ll get more power for your dollar! The highlight was when a girl came back after reading the leaflet and told me she’d seen plenty of videos and photos So please pull out your checkbook to take advantage of this special, of factory farming, but never really knew how to go about limited-time opportunity to help twice as many animals! changing her diet, and never thought of a vegan diet as being a real possibility. She’d always feel horrible for a while but then go on about her normal habits. She said the leaflet was so helpful because it showed her how to make these changes; she had no idea how many vegan products were available. She thanked me many times, and made my entire week by telling me she was going to go vegan! I couldn’t be happier. There were countless other positive interactions, but seeing how happy she was after discovering she didn’t have to support cruelty any longer had to be my favorite moment of the day. —SHURA HAMMOND, 9/11/14 Left: In August, VO’s Senior Outreach & Strategy Coordinator, Vic Sjodin (wearing cap), gave an impromptu talk at Chaffey College: “Six students wanted to leaflet next semester; many were not veg, but moved to go that way. It was a real high; they seemed moved and thankful, and wanted to help the cause.” In February, Bryan (front) let Vic know that after getting a booklet last year, he now runs the campus vegan club, and showed the booklet to his cousin, who’s been vegetarian ever since! FALL 2014 | VEGAN OUTREACH NEWS 3 ATLANTA, GA AUBURN HILLS, MI (DETROIT) SHAKOPEE, MN (MINNEAPOLIS) MARYLAND HEIGHTS, MO (ST. LOUIS) record year for warped tour outreach! TORONTO, ON MOUNTAIN VIEW, CA 4 VEGAN OUTREACH NEWS | FALL 2014 activists across the country So far in 2014, and around the world have reached more than 600,000 individuals at concerts, festivals, parades, and other off-campus venues! AT THIS SUMMER’S WARPED TOUR SHOWS ALONE, ACTIVISTS HANDED VEGAN OUTREACH BOOKLETS TO A RECORD 377,251 CONCERTGOERS! Well before the tour begins, Vegan Outreach designs and prints a Warped Tour–specific booklet, using quotations and photos from veg members of the various bands who will be part of that year’s tour. Every summer, Vegan Outreach organizes the schedule, arranges housing, and ships hundreds of thousands of booklets for our crew traveling with the Warped Tour. Over the years, Vegan Outreach has worked TINLEY PARK, IL with many individual activists as well as other groups— (CHICAGO) including the Humane League, FARM, Mercy For Animals, peta2, Compassionate Action for Animals, and many others— to make sure we reach as many interested people as possible. GREAT NIGHT IN TINLEY PARK/CHICAGO with help from awesome local activists! Together we reached just shy of 13,000 This year a record 198 activists took part in Warped Tour Warped Tour attendees! leafleting—with Vegan Outreach’s Chris Guinn distributing a record 51,362 booklets at 36 of the 41 stops leafleted! And “The highlight of my night was meeting Danay [below, right], who went the all-time record for biggest leafleting event ever was set vegan for the animals after getting a booklet from us at Warped Tour by the Pomona crew, then topped by activists in Hartford! last year! She asked me to tag her photo on Twitter, and we had a little Thank you so much to all the dedicated activists who relent- exchange online after the show—awesome! She tweets about animals lessly leafleted in the heat to spread the message of justice. a lot, and we follow each other now! I also met vegetarian Jessica and pescatarian Montserrat [below, left], And a special thank you to all of Vegan Outreach’s dedicated who made big changes after getting booklets last year, too. I told donors. If not for you, these booklets wouldn’t be developed, Montserrat she has to try Gardein fishless filets! printed, shipped, and directly handed to all these individuals. Your support is changing lives every day, and we thank It’s always great to have these reminders that we are changing the you for making this powerful and necessary work possible. world for animals in a big way out here on the Warped Tour! —CHRIS GUINN, 7/19/14 On the opposite page and above are some of the many dedicated activists who took part in this year’s Warped Tour outreach: Dave Rolsky, Kealy Porter, Jacob Carrigan, Rachel Shippee, John Corrigan, Unny Nambudiripad, Grace Van Susteren, Mike Chutich, Angela Mertz, and John Jungenberg at the Minneapolis stop; Eric Griffith, Paulette Wendell, Josh Wayne, Cheyenne Huaracha, Joshua Foxworth, Meghan Carr, Wendy Moore, Laura Lee, Andrea Gunn, Justin Starner, and Marianella Lopez at the Atlanta stop; Chelsea Collins and Emily Glassman at the St. Louis stop; Alex Corrigan, John Jungenberg, Rachel Shippee, Matt Corriveau, John Oberg, Chris Guinn, Brian Lutz, and Jennifer Loughnane at the Detroit stop; Alex Greenwood and Lucas Solowey at the Toronto stop; Stephanie Frankle, Jai Hui Lee, Brian Lutz, Kassy Ortega, Ethan Dussault, Hutton Baird, Becki Markle, Beau Broughton, Jeni Haines, Chris Guinn, Kelly Lally, Julianne Perry, Jayda Fleishman, Radish, and Gunita Singh at the Mountain View stop; and Mickey Kudia, Brian Pietrzycki, Jennifer Pietrzycki, Kevin Cooney, Mikael Nielsen, Becki Markle, Leslie Patterson, Alex Corrigan, John Jungenberg, Radish, Chris Chris Guinn (Minneapolis group, Chicago concertgoers); The Humane League (Mountain View group) Guinn, and Rachel Shippee at the Chicago stop.
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