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Jessika Ava, MS, MPA

@Jessika-Ava

CEO and Founder, Thrive Philanthropy

https://www.jessikaava.com/
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About Me

Jessika has worked in the non-USA social justice philanthropic sector since 2010 within the sphere of food systems change, veganism, and One Health approach to Asian street animal welfare. Her areas of expertise include equity-based and Trust-Based Philanthropy approaches to funding, developing grantmaking meta-evaluations, and strategically facilitating grassroots organizational growth, with a special focus on Global South and social justice organizations. She offers consultation to both funders and grassroots NGOs.

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Jessika is the CEO and founder of Thrive Philanthropy, a grantmaking firm that accelerates alternatives to industrial animal agriculture by strengthening frontline organizations and by facilitating global reach of philanthropic investments. 

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She holds a Master’s degree in Biostatisics, a second Master’s degree in Program Evaluation and Nonprofit Management, and a Bachelor’s degree in Evolutionary Biology.

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Jessika is a tribal member of the Choctaw Nation and one of the first Native Americans to sit in a leadership position in the vegan philanthropic space.

Projects

Thrive Philanthropy

Outgoing donations

Thrive Philanthropy
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8 months ago
Thrive Philanthropy
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8 months ago
Building Bridges: Effective Animal Advocacy in the Global South
$100
8 months ago

Comments

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Jessika Ava, MS, MPA

about 1 month ago

Progress update

What progress have you made since your last update?

Thrive Philanthropy continues to expand the size and sophistication of the global anti-factory farm and protein diversification movement. As of January 2025, we are expanding the movement in half the world's countries through grants and capacity, including facilitating the growth of the movement in 50 countries with nascent and emerging advocacy efforts. And we continue to facilitate the exponential growth of the Africa plant-based movement in 67% of African countries.

Our global impact webpage can be found at https://www.thrivephilanthropy.org/impact
And our 2024 annual report can be found at https://www.thrivephilanthropy.org/annualreports

We also recently launched a Community Grantmaker project, giving the public a seat at the table in grant decision-making, we invite you to join us at https://www.thrivephilanthropy.org/communitygrantmaker

We are always happy to talk more! Feel welcome to message us here or at info@thrivephilanthropy.org

Is there anything others could help you with?

We need additional funding to underwrite our work and expand global food systems grantmaking.

Thrive Philanthropy
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Jessika Ava, MS, MPA

2 months ago

6 Month Update:
Hi everyone -Thrive Philanthropy continues to expand the size and sophistication of the global anti-factory farm and protein diversification movement. As of January 2025, we are expanding the movement in half the world's countries through grants and capacity, including facilitating the growth of the movement in 50 countries with nascent and emerging advocacy efforts. And we continue to facilitate the exponential growth of the Africa plant-based movement in 67% of African countries.

Our global impact webpage can be found at https://www.thrivephilanthropy.org/impact
And our 2024 annual report can be found at https://www.thrivephilanthropy.org/annualreports

We also recently launched a Community Grantmaker project, giving the public a seat at the table in grant decision-making, we invite you to join us at https://www.thrivephilanthropy.org/communitygrantmaker

We are always happy to talk more! Feel welcome to message us here or at info@thrivephilanthropy.org

Thrive Philanthropy
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Jessika Ava, MS, MPA

4 months ago

@vascoamaralgrilo Hi Vasco, great question & thank you for taking an interest in Thrive. We do a meta-evaluation of our grantmaking to ascertain various outcomes, one being the approximate equivalent reduced number of animals consumed. However, in order to finalize this part of the evaluation, we would need to pay a one-time cost to hire an outside consultant to create the animals saved calculator. To date, we haven't had the budget to do this. So in short, we're collecting the data to answer your question, but won't be able to finalize it until if/when we have a donor interested in covering the one-time extra cost.

I hope this is useful and we're happy to answer any more questions!

Building Bridges: Effective Animal Advocacy in the Global South
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Jessika Ava, MS, MPA

9 months ago

Sinergia has strong leadership and a long track record of success.

“Planting the future by eating well in the present”
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Jessika Ava, MS, MPA

9 months ago

Angola Vegetarian Association is one of the only organizations working to remove animals from the food system in Angola.

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