Programs and Campaigns
Student Schoolwide Ambassador Program
Join our Student Ambassador Program and bring STAND’s mission to your school! As an ambassador, you'll lead the movement for animal rights, environmental justice, and youth empowerment right in your community. You’ll host monthly meetings, organize school-wide initiatives, and work directly with our core team to shape the future of STAND and youth advocacy.
This is your chance to inspire your peers, build leadership skills, and make real change, all while connecting with passionate students across the country. Ready to take a stand?
Students Guide To Policy- Virtual Fellowship
The STAND Policy Fellowship is a virtual program designed to empower students to become changemakers in advocacy, legislation, and policy research. Through monthly meetings, collaborative discussions, and mentorship from policy experts, fellows will explore how laws are shaped, how to engage with legislators, and how to design actionable policy proposals that address pressing issues such as environmental justice, animal welfare, and human rights.
Fellows will work together on projects, attend workshops on advocacy strategy and communication, and learn how to make their voices heard through research, writing, and direct civic engagement.
STAND Policy Working Groups
STAND Policy Working Groups are collaborative, project-based teams that bring together students, researchers, and young professionals to develop evidence-based policy solutions addressing global sustainability challenges.
Each Working Group focuses on a specific policy area—such as climate action, food systems, biodiversity, animal welfare, environmental justice, artificial intelligence, public health, education, or sustainable cities—and works over several months to produce tangible deliverables. These may include policy briefs, comparative research reports, legislative recommendations, stakeholder analyses, educational toolkits, data dashboards, or implementation frameworks.
Working Groups operate through structured meetings, collaborative research, expert engagement, and peer review, allowing members to gain practical experience in policy analysis while contributing to high-quality publications under the STAND Global Goals Initiative. Participants work alongside individuals from diverse academic and professional backgrounds, encouraging interdisciplinary perspectives and internationally informed solutions.
Programs
STAND Global Goals Ambassador
The STAND Global Goals Ambassador Program is an international leadership initiative that empowers students and young professionals to advance the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) through collaboration, advocacy, research, and community action.
Ambassadors join a global network of emerging leaders committed to creating measurable impact within their communities while contributing to international initiatives led by STAND. Participants collaborate across disciplines and countries, engage with policy experts and partner organizations, contribute to research and educational resources, support global campaigns, and represent STAND through outreach and events.
Throughout the program, ambassadors have opportunities to participate in Global Innovation Teams, publish policy briefs and research, organize local and virtual initiatives, contribute to STAND's analytics and data projects, and present their work during the annual Global Goals Conference. Ambassadors are encouraged to specialize in one or more Sustainable Development Goals while collaborating across issue areas to develop interdisciplinary solutions.
Internship Opportunities
Join STAND’s Interns today! We are always looking for dedicated students aged 16+ to assist with networking, website management, event management, council members, and outreach!
Our Campaigns
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Urge Your State's Legislature to Adopt The Anti Pound Seizure Bill
This campaign is a collaboration between the Beagle Freedom Project and STAND. You can advocate for this bill through emails to your legislators, lobbying sessions, and other means of communication and advocacy (visit our guides!)
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Urge Your State's Legislature to Adopt The Beagle Freedom Bill
This campaign is a collaboration between the Beagle Freedom Project and STAND. You can advocate for this bill through emails to your legislators, lobbying sessions, and other means of communication and advocacy (visit our guides!)
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Urge Federal Legislators to Vote "YES" On Glue Trap Ban
While glue traps are instruments of agonizing cruelty, trapping animals like rodents, small birds, and even protected species, leading to slow death by starvation, dehydration, or self-mutilation, the good news is that federal legislation has been introduced to outlaw them nationwide. Tell your legislators to support this bill!
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Advocate for the primate safety act 2025
The Captive Primate Safety Act (H.R. 3199) is vital legislation designed to protect public safety, public health, and animal welfare by ending the dangerous, irresponsible practice of keeping non-human primates as pets in residential settings. H.R. 3199 is the necessary federal solution. It prohibits the interstate sale, transport, and private ownership of primates, effectively restricting their possession to qualified sanctuaries and accredited facilities.
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Urge Your State Legislators to Allocate Funding for Wildlife Corridors
Wildlife corridors are essential infrastructure projects, like overpasses, underpasses, or specialized fencing, that reconnect habitats fragmented by highways and development. Advocating for your state legislature to include funding and plans for these corridors is critical.
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Urge Your State Legislators To Support A Bottle Bill
A bottle bill significantly boosts recycling rates and reduces litter by assigning a monetary value (a refundable deposit) to beverage containers. This creates a high-quality stream of clean, sorted materials for manufacturers and shifts the financial responsibility for waste management from taxpayers to producers and consumers. States with bottle bills often achieve recycling rates for these containers that are double or triple those of non-deposit states.
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Urge Federal Legislators to Oppose the EATS act
The EATS Act (Ending Agricultural Trade Suppression Act) is a federal bill introduced that undermines state rights, jeopardizes animal welfare and food safety laws, creates legal chaos, and potentially benefits large corporations at the expense of smaller producers and consumers. It will invalidate or weaken state laws on issues like animal confinement, food quality, and environmental protection, leading to a less regulated and potentially more harmful agricultural system.
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Urge Federal Legislators to Support the Animal Cruelty Enforcement Act of 2025
The Animal Cruelty Enforcement (ACE) Act establishes a dedicated unit within the Department of Agriculture (USDA) specifically tasked with investigating and prosecuting violations of federal animal protection laws, such as the Animal Welfare Act. This initiative is designed to close enforcement gaps and ensure that individuals and facilities found violating animal safety and care standards are held accountable. Click on the link below to support this campaign.
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Ask Federal Legislators to Support Sea Turtle Rescue Act of 2025
The Sea Turtle Rescue Assistance and Rehabilitation Act (H.R. 347) and S. 843 is crucial because it provides essential funding and support to the dedicated organizations and stranding networks that save injured sea turtles every day.
This bill helps ensure that when a sick or injured sea turtle is found on the beach, there are trained experts, medical supplies, and safe facilities ready to provide emergency aid and long-term care.
