New Roots Institute is a nonprofit empowering the next generation with knowledge and training to end factory farming.
Factory farming has devastating impacts on humans, animals, and the planet.
At New Roots Institute (formerly known as Factory Farming Awareness Coalition), we are strengthening the collective movement to end factory farming by empowering the next generation with knowledge and training to do just that.
330,000+
Students Impacted
10,000+
High School & College Lessons
500+
Fellows Trained in Leadership
Through interactive, high school and college lessons, we inspire critical thinking and dynamic discussions about the connections between industrial animal agriculture and current key issues impacting us all—like animal welfare, climate change and environmental sustainability, human rights, and personal and public health.
Through our Leadership Program, we offer fellowships for students motivated to dig deeper into the impacts, and solutions, of factory farming—while being trained in effective communication, advocacy, and leadership skills. Upon completing the fellowship, alumni go on—with our continued support—to develop and empower other leaders to create change in their communities toward our shared goal of ending factory farming.
2010: Our founder, Katie Cantrell, begins giving presentations on the impacts of farming to classes and groups at the University of California, Berkeley.
2013: Factory Farming Awareness Coalition (FFAC) shifted from being a fully volunteer-run organization to having its first paid employee.
2014: We became fiscally sponsored by Vegan Outreach and started new hubs in Los Angeles and Denver.
2018: We gained 501(c)3 status and launched the first version of the leadership development programs.
2020: We piloted our first large scale, online version of the leadership development programs to give the most motivated students the opportunity to learn more and further their skills.
2023: FFAC rebranded as New Roots Institute, a name that better fits the organization's work and will enable us to reach, engage, and empower as many people as possible.
