Burning Questions Initiative

Coming to grips with pressing practical questions about how to tackle negative impacts of global industrial food animal production.This is Tiny Beam Fund’s flagship initiative.

It has three programs:

Burning Questions Collection and Prioritization Program

  • Issue experts (leaders of advocacy organizations, frontline campaigners, researchers, etc.) are invited to contribute pressing, under-researched, practical questions on the negative impacts of industrial food animal production that they most want answered. These questions span the economic, environmental, political, cultural, and equity dimensions.
  • The list of "burning questions" is used to guide the kind of work by academic researchers Tiny Beam Fund supports.

Burning Questions Fellowship Program

  • Nine-month fellowships ($45,000 - $60,000) for individual academic researchers interested in "burning questions".
  • There is one Call For Applications each year (around March/April).

Burning Questions Research Planning Grants Program

  • Six-month grants ($5,000 - $15,000) for academic researchers working in universities to support the planning of research and the advancement of recently launched projects related to "burning questions".
  • As of 2026, this program is accepting applications BY INVITATION ONLY.
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