6 organizations that protect animal rights

Many charitable organizations dedicate themselves to improving the welfare of animals. Here, we tell you about some of the best. These six organizations have four-star ratings from Charity Navigator, along with at least $13.5 million in total annual expenses.

2. Dumb Friends League

The Dumb Friends League, founded in 1910, is headquartered in Denver.

Don't be fooled by the name: supporting the Dumb Friends League is a very smart decision. The Denver-based organization, founded in 1910, was named after the British animal shelter Our Dumb Friends League. "Dumb" was used to describe animals back in the day because they don't speak a human language; today, that concept is present in the league's mission statement of "speaking for those who cannot speak for themselves." Twenty-five thousand lost and abandoned animals every year are "spoken for" by the Dumb Friends League through sheltering and care, along with the following services: pairing homeless pets with new owners, reuniting lost pets with their owners, reviewing cases of animal cruelty, backing animal-friendly legislation, teaching animal behavior assistance classes, listing pet-friendly housing in Colorado, providing education on humane animal treatment, and giving donor-financed spaying and neutering to pets in underserved communities.

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Dear Reader,

About a year ago, I happened upon this statement about the Monitor in the Harvard Business Review – under the charming heading of “do things that don’t interest you”:

“Many things that end up” being meaningful, writes social scientist Joseph Grenny, “have come from conference workshops, articles, or online videos that began as a chore and ended with an insight. My work in Kenya, for example, was heavily influenced by a Christian Science Monitor article I had forced myself to read 10 years earlier. Sometimes, we call things ‘boring’ simply because they lie outside the box we are currently in.”

If you were to come up with a punchline to a joke about the Monitor, that would probably be it. We’re seen as being global, fair, insightful, and perhaps a bit too earnest. We’re the bran muffin of journalism.

But you know what? We change lives. And I’m going to argue that we change lives precisely because we force open that too-small box that most human beings think they live in.

The Monitor is a peculiar little publication that’s hard for the world to figure out. We’re run by a church, but we’re not only for church members and we’re not about converting people. We’re known as being fair even as the world becomes as polarized as at any time since the newspaper’s founding in 1908.

We have a mission beyond circulation, we want to bridge divides. We’re about kicking down the door of thought everywhere and saying, “You are bigger and more capable than you realize. And we can prove it.”

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