Gifts from Your IRA It’s easy and smart to donate from your individual retirement account. There are two easy ways you can use your individual retirement account (IRA) to support animals. 1 Making a Qualified Charitable Distribution (QCD) From Your IRA If you are 70½ or older and have an IRA, you may be able … Read more
Gifts of Stock You can use stock to support Animal Wellness Action. You or your broker can transfer shares through electronic transfer using our Depository Trust Company (DTC) number and account number to ensure delivery. To receive that number, please email us using the form below. Thank you for your interest in supporting AWA with … Read more
Gifts of Cash Financial support by check or money order is a direct way to support our work. It keeps us nimble and at the ready when animals are in crisis. You are welcome to mail your donation as well. Help us know who our supporters are by printing and returning this optional downloadable form … Read more
Donate Monthly Animals are in danger. We need your support now — more than ever — to save them. Join our Animal Wellness Ambassadors Circle! Thank you for joining people across the country and around the world who are supporting our fight for change for animals. Your monthly contribution will be put to work immediately … Read more
Mobile, Ala. – This week, the University of South Alabama (USA) student organization Animal Rights Alliance received guest speaker and Mobile native Marty Irby at a special event, where Irby spoke about animal protection issues and lobbying for animals in our nation’s capital. Irby is the executive director at Animal Wellness Action and a senior … Read more
The Federal Ban on Cockfighting Is Settled Law, as Congress Winds Up to Strengthen the Law Again WASHINGTON, D.C. — Yesterday, a U.S. District Court dismissed with prejudice a legal maneuver by a former Northern Marianas Islands local politician and executive agency official – a self-described lifelong cockfighter – to invalidate the application of the federal ban … Read more
Washington, DC – The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is embracing the discredited and unethical practice of trophy hunting of threatened and endangered species in its latest proposed rulemaking on elephant conservation, according to the Animal Wellness Action (AWA) and the Center for a Humane Economy (CHE). The groups are calling on the agency to bar any … Read more
Lawmakers also seek to choke off transport of adult roosters through U.S. mail
In addition to staging fights in U.S., animal fighters are raising and shipping tens of thousands of fighting animals to other nations throughout the world Washington, D.C. – Noting the barbarism of staged dogfighting and disease threats to poultry posed by cockfighting, Reps. Cindy Axne, D-Iowa, and Don Bacon, R-Neb., introduced legislation to strengthen the … Read more
To understand why Animal Wellness Action is so invested in the passage of FDA Modernization 2.0, one need look no further than Sheldon and Bernie.