VO Outreach Coordinator Rachel Black has traveled to 68 different schools this semester, handing out more than 44,000 Vegan Outreach booklets!

Below is Rachel (center) with volunteers Morgan Householder (left) and Jennifer Loughnane (right) at Ohio State University, where they reached more than 1,100 students last month!

At Bowling Green State University, Rachel got Your Choice booklets into the hands of 1,245 people:

I spoke to a middle-aged man today for a long time and by the end of the conversation he said he was going to try vegan seriously. He asked me what to buy at the grocery store, and I told him where he could find great days worth of meal plans online. He seemed excited and confident to live more responsibly.

—Rachel Black, 11/5/14

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VO Outreach Coordinator Jose Elias has traveled to 68 different schools this semester, handing out more than 50,000 Vegan Outreach booklets!

At Spokane Falls Community College, Jose had help from two on-the-spot volunteers, and together they were able to reach 1,100 students with Even If You Like Meat booklets:

I met Autumn Schmidt [below] and Mohammed while leafleting this morning. Autumn has been a vegetarian for some time now and is ready to start an environmental group on campus that focuses on factory farming! Mohammed (who’s actually not a veghead but thinks animals deserve better) helped me kill it today. Hopefully with this little stint of activism, Mohammed will reconsider his diet!

—Jose Elias, 10/13/14

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Steve Erlsten is VO’s Northern California Outreach Coordinator and this semester’s most prolific Adopt a College leafleter: So far he’s been to over 100 different campuses, directly handing Vegan Outreach booklets to more than 86,000 students!

Last month, Steve teamed with Ron Good, Gia and Camilla Kendall, and Jan Weeks to leaflet Sacramento State. Together they handed out more than 3,350 VO booklets in a single day; as Steve reports: “We blew away the old record of 2,400! I had no idea what I was in for with this leafleting team!”

It was a gorgeous day and such an honor to leaflet with Steve Erlsten, one of Vegan Outreach’s finest. The leafleting location was perfect, with lots of students passing by, to and from classes. It was such a great feeling having so many people take the leaflets and then to see them sitting nearby reading them. Also, quite a number of people refused the leaflets by saying, “I’m already vegan” or “Thank you for doing this.” Very rewarding! I’ll leaflet again with Steve in a heartbeat!

—Jan Weeks, 11/4/14

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Kristin Lamy, VO’s Canada Outreach Coordinator, has traveled to 49 different campuses this semester, handing out more than 43,000 Vegan Outreach booklets!

Kristin, John Sakars, Alex Greenwood (above), Ali Pester, and Miranda Bocci reached 4,700 students in a single day at York University’s Keele Campus:

Great, GREAT day! And one that left one (me, anyway) quite pooped. Had a bumpy start when I got stuck in Toronto traffic for 1.5 hours, but John and Alex are heroes and started without me with the leaflets they’d brought until I arrived 30 minutes later.

Students were quite receptive and many stopped to learn more. I met at least 3 vegans who were grateful to learn they’re not alone, and a few vegetarians who were impacted by the information I gave them on the dairy and egg industries.

Great team!

—Kristin Lamy, 10/22/14

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Yuri Mitzkewich, VO’s Southeast Outreach Coordinator, has traveled to 60 different schools this semester, handing out more than 52,000 Vegan Outreach booklets!

The take rate tonight at the University of South Florida Sarasota-Manatee was good like I never had seen before, with me almost scoring my first 100% handoff night – all perfection but for one guy refusing a booklet. Most though were extremely friendly and curious, giving me a good feeling that most would at least be giving their Compassionate Choices a good read.

The highlight came near the end when I met April [shown below]. She told me it was a leaflet she’d gotten a few years back that got her to go vegan! A mom of two, she eventually got her husband on board, and now – from that one leaflet way back – her whole family’s veg! Such amazing feedback to hear – I won’t in a hundred years ever get tired of hearing people tell me that!

—Yuri Mitzkewich, 11/19/14

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Vic Sjodin, VO’s Senior Outreach & Strategy Coordinator, has leafleted 60 different schools this fall, handing out more than 43,000 Vegan Outreach booklets!

Earlier this semester, Vic (above, left) teamed with Vegas Veg activists to leaflet the University of Nevada, Las Vegas:

A HUGE, just massive day for this school; great team effort. Together we raised the one-day school record here from 1,450 to 3,290!

Some highlights: I met Brian [below, left], a freshman who read Your Choice and asked for more information on how to make the switch – boom – Guided and encouraged. Shortly thereafter, I met Zack [below, center], a biochem major who had been veg-curious before; he read a booklet and we had a long conversation – boom – going vegan, he said! And Elaine [Vigneault, above] met John, who had already stopped eating pigs and cows and is now working on eating fewer chickens; and Nicole [below, right], who now wants to go veg!

Huge thanks to Elaine for getting local folks out, and for all her efforts to promote veganism locally. Elaine is not playing around and can move some serious lit!

We saw many reading our literature. I’m extremely happy that together we were able to reach so many fertile hearts and minds.

—Vic Sjodin, 10/14/14

Through December 31, your fully tax-deductible donation to Vegan Outreach will create twice as many new vegetarians and spare twice as many animals from suffering!

By Jon Camp

We at Vegan Outreach are proud to announce a special milestone! For the first time in our storied 20-year history, we have reached over one million college students in a single semester with the plight of farmed animals!

For the fall semester of our Adopt a College program, over one million of today’s youth were personally handed a Vegan Outreach booklet. We reached students in 48 of the US states, as well as throughout Canada, Australia, Denmark, and Italy.

This was not an easy task. It involved activists putting in thousands and thousands of miles on the road, standing day after day on their feet for hours on end in all weather conditions; and in the case of VO’s Canada Outreach Coordinator, Kristin Lamy, getting stuck in Buffalo for multiple days during a snowstorm.

We’re always hearing from individuals who have gone vegetarian or vegan as a result of our hard work — individuals who never thought much about their food choices and who are now actively working to create a better world for animals, thanks to getting a Vegan Outreach booklet

This accomplishment has been a team effort, and it came about thanks to the legendary dedication of VO’s tireless outreach coordinators and volunteers, the great animal advocacy organizations we team up with, and our thoughtful and generous donors who make this work happen in the first place.

Thanks to everyone who played a role in this historic milestone on behalf of animals!

We are now carrying a bunch of fun new items to help you show your vegan pride and spread a compassionate lifestyle!

Bumper Sticker – Choose Compassion

Measures 9″ x 4″

$2 | Purchase from Order Form

Bumper Sticker – Chicks Dig Vegans

Measures 9″ x 4″

$2 | Purchase from Order Form

Bumper Sticker – Cruelty Sucks Go Vegan

Measures 9″ x 4″

$2 | Purchase from Order Form

Bumper Sticker – I Heart Vegan Outreach

Measures 9″ x 4″

$2 | Purchase from Order Form

Bumper Sticker – I’d Rather Be Leafleting

Measures 9″ x 4″

$2 | Purchase from Order Form

Bookmark – I Heart Vegan Outreach

Double-sided, measuring 6″ x 2″

$1 | Purchase from Order Form

Bookmark – Chicks Dig Vegans

Double-sided, measuring 6″ x 2″

$1 | Purchase from Order Form

Magnet – I Heart Vegan Outreach

Measures 4.75″ x 2″

$1 | Purchase from Order Form

Sticker – White VO Logo

Measures 3″ x 3″

$1 | Purchase from Order Form

Sticker – Black VO Logo

Measures 3″ x 3″

$1 | Purchase from Order Form

It’s Easy to Start Eating Vegan

by Rebecca Gilbert

A beginner’s guide to help you start eating vegan:

• Easy egg and dairy substitutions
• Plant-based protein sources
• Sample meal plans and tasty, easy-to-make basic recipes
• Tips for navigating social situations

$14.95 | Purchase from Order Form

Vegucated

Three People. Six Weeks. One Challenge.
Best Documentary 2011 – Toronto Film Festival

More info.
$15 | Purchase from Order Form

By Toni Okamoto

Vegan Girl Scout Cookies exist! But sadly, not everywhere. The Girl Scouts use two baking companies: ABC Bakers and Little Brownie. The two companies are broken up geographically and serve different counties. If your county serves Little Brownie Cookies (you can see on the box), then you have the option of Thin Mints, but if you have ABC Baker Girl Scouts you have four delightful, delectable, delicious options!

It’s hard to know whether your local troop has all the vegan goods, but you can try giving them a call or reaching out to them on social media. There’s also this nifty tool to help you locate cookie stands nearest you: http://www.girlscouts.org/program/gs_cookies/cookies.asp

The four vegan options available from ABC Bakers are: Thin Mints, Peanut Butter Patties, Lemonades and Thanks-A-Lot.

Only about a month before you see cookie stands popping up near you! I can’t wait!

By Lisa Rimmert

Black Friday. Cyber Monday. There’s been a lot of focus this past weekend on shopping. Today, dubbed Giving Tuesday, let’s turn our attention toward spending money in a different way: donating to a cause we care about!

Donate $20 (or more!) to Vegan Outreach today, and we will send you a complimentary copy of Rebecca Gilbert’s book, It’s Easy to Start Eating Vegan!” Your donation will help Vegan Outreach print and distribute more vegan literature and inspire more people to go vegan in 2015!

Give because you care. Give because it feels good. Give because you want the book! Whatever your reason, your spending today will prevent the suffering of farmed animals.

Thank you!