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DC Vegetarian Organizations

These nonprofits in the national capital region (District of Columbia, nearby Maryland, northern Virginia) support vegetarianism. Please support their efforts.

Vegetarian Society of the District of Columbia

VSDC has many local free social gatherings and outreach activities each month, including potlucks, book discussions, and restaurant visits. Plus, VSDC has subgroups, with gatherings for the singles and GLBT communities.

Small or Localized Groups

• Raw vegan food potlucks and email lists of various groups...
• DC/NOVA Vegan Meetup Group
• Montgomery County MD Vegetarian Meetup Group
• Silver Spring MD Vegetarian Cooking Club
• Northern Virginia Vegetarian Group
• Seventh-day Adventist churches in their Potomac Conference of SDA (DC/MD/VA)

Nutrition and Vegetarianism Information

• Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine (PCRM), with diet information and vegetarian starter kit
• Vegetarian Resource Group (VRG), and their Vegetarian Journal
• Food & Nutrition Information Center (FNIC) at the National Agricultural Library (NAL), Beltsville MD, with vegetarian nutrition information

National Advocacy with Local Activities

• Action for Animals Network, with veg actions and articles
• Compassion Over Killing, and COK's Vegetarian Starter Guide
• FARM (Farm Animal Reform Movement), and Great American Meatout and Vegetarian Starter Kit
• Sierra Club, True Cost of Food campaign, Metro DC, Restaurant Outings

National Advocacy

• blackvegetarians.org
• Friends of Animals, office, and FoA's veg page and Vegan Starter Guide
• Humane Society of the United States (HSUS), Choosing a humane diet, and their Legislative Fund
• People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, and PETA's GoVeg.com and Vegetarian Starter Kit
• Center for Respect of Life & Environment (CRLE) {DC NW}
• The Essence of True Humanity Is Compassion (The ETHIC) {Kensington, MD}
• Leigh-Anne's Animal Advocacy Network {Virginia}
• Campaigns to improve school meals...

Alleviating hunger

• Food for Life Global, in Potomac MD, and FFL's director's comments about being vegan
• Food not Bombs, in DC [also] [also], in Alexandria, and Food Not Bombs Publishing
• Those and others are part of Global Hunger Alliance

Farmed Animal Sanctuaries

• Poplar Spring Animal Sanctuary, Poolesville Maryland
• Star Gazing Farm, Boyds Maryland
• Mini-Pigs Sanctuary, Culpeper Virginia (moving to Shepherd's Green Sanctuary in Tennessee)
• Pigs, a Sanctuary, Shepherdstown West Virginia
• Rikki's Refuge, Orange Virginia
• Eastern Shore Sanctuary & Education Center, Princess Anne Maryland
• United Poultry Concerns (UPC), Machipongo Virginia

Baltimore Maryland

• EarthSave, Baltimore chapter, and their Vegan Meetup and Vegetarian Meetup (Take EarthSave's VegPledge to get their vegetarian starter kit.)
• Baltimore Animal Rights Coalition (BARC)
• Animals and Society Institute (ASI)

Groups 40 to 100 miles from DC

• Western Maryland Vegetarian Society, Hagerstown
• Voices for Animals, Charlottesville Virginia
• Vegetarian Society of Richmond Virginia
• Green Street Vegetarian Club, Harrisburg Pennsylvania
• Philadelphia PA and the rest of the Delaware Valley has many vegetrarian resources

Employment

• Job Opportunities at PCRM in DC
• Job openings at FARM headquarters, in Bethesda MD
• Alley Cat Allies, Jobs and Volunteer Opportunities, in DC
• Employment with HSUS, in Gaithersburg, DC, and elsewhere
• EnviroLink Search for jobs in DC, Maryland, and Virginia

See also our other lists of vegetarian resources.