No money? No problem. Here you can find links to campaign materials, computer programs, bumper stickers, and other stuff that's absolutely free.

Save Animals with Emails and IMs!
The Humane Society of the United States has teamed up with Microsoft to be a part of i'm™, a new initiative from Windows Live Messenger and now, Windows Live Hotmail!

Each time you send a message using Windows Live Messenger or Windows Live Hotmail, Microsoft shares a portion of the program's advertising revenue with some of the world's most effective organizations dedicated to social causes, including The Humane Society of the United States. All you have to do is sign up!

The i'm™ Initiative is an easy way to support The HSUS and help animals by doing something you do every day—and without spending a dime out of your own pocket! The Windows Live Messenger and Windows Live Hotmail are both free and there is NO cost to you. You can also download buttons and banners for your MySpace or other social networking page, website, or blog to show that you are participating in the program to help save animals.

Click here for step-by-step instructions. Make sure you follow the steps to choose The HSUS as your cause! 

HumaneTeen Flier
Spread the word with our new HumaneTeen fliers! Post them around school and on community bulletin boards. Download and print your own or email us and we will send them to you.  

Click the image to the right for the full-size PDF version of the flier.

NEW! The Guide to a Dog's Life: Chaining and Your Community
Have you seen chained dogs in your neighborhood? Want to help ensure that pooches in your community live inside with their families? Request a free copy of "The Guide to a Dog's Life: Chaining and Your Community"—a comprehensive, step-by step guide on how to pass an anti-chaining ordinance in your area—and start helping dogs now! The guide includes:

• a primer on how local governments work
• sample letters to the editor 
• a guide to testifying at a public meeting
• sample tethering ordinances from around the country
  and much more!

The HSUS Guide to Vegetarian Eating
This guide is packed with mouth-watering recipes and the hows and whys of making the transition to vegetarian eating.

 Read it online, download it in PDF format, or order a free copy.

Compassionate Shopping Guide
Avoid products tested on animals with a free shopping guide from the Coalition for Consumer Information on Cosmetics. Find makeup, hair and skin care products, household cleansers, pet care products and more from companies that have pledged not to test on animals. You can browse the guide online or order your own pocket-sized guide to have on hand while you're shopping. To learn more about the use of animals in product testing and research, click here.

Chimps Deserve Better Ringtones and Screensavers
Approximately 1,300 chimpanzees—many who were captured from the wild, used by the entertainment industry, and kept as pets—currently live in nine biomedical research and testing laboratories around the United States. Our closest living relatives deserve better! Spread the word about the Chimps Deserve Better campaign with chimp ringtones for your cell and chimp screensavers (for Windows or Mac). Check out the Chimp Action Toolkit for more ways to help.

To receive your free bumper sticker, please fill in this form. One order per household, please.

Dissection Campaign Packet
The HSUS has created a Dissection Campaign Packet for students who want to inform teachers, students, and other members of the public about the dissection issue and about the need to replace the practice of killing and cutting up animals for education with effective, humane alternatives. A few of the things included are:

• Dissection: Want to Know a Simple Way to Say No Way? Explains the dissection issue in a nutshell, and helps students get ideas for proceeding with a campaign to change things at his or her school.
• Student Choice in Biology Education A guide on why and how to create a student choice policy at any school.
• Dissection vs. Alternatives: A Cost Comparison Compares the costs of dissection materials and three different dissection alternatives (the cat, fetal pig, and bullfrog) over a three-year period.
• Humane Science Projects Gives teachers or students ideas for science fairs or other independent science projects that don't involve the harmful use of animals. Teachers find it a highly useful resource.
• Student Choice in Your State: A Lobbying Guide An excellent guide to help you pass a law in your state that will protect students who wish to use an alternative to dissection.

Click here for a complete list of materials in the packet. These materials will assist you whether you are working on your own or with others in mounting a campaign to either 1) replace dissection with humane alternatives at your school, or 2) enact policies granting students the right to choose humane alternatives to dissection. They will also help you to raise public awareness about the problems with killing animals for education.

Send an e-mail to ari@hsus.org to request a dissection campaign packet, or contact us at:

The Humane Society of the United States
Animal Research Issues
2100 L Street NW
Washington, D.C. 20037
301-721-6439

Fur Free Campaign Cards and Brochures
You already know animals need their fur more than we do—now you can use The HSUS Fur Free Campaign materials to spread the word to others in your community. Whether you plan to demonstrate at a local clothing retailer that sells fur or fur trim or conduct a class presentation, our Fur Free Campaign resources will help you educate others. And best of all, we are able to offer certain quantities of our materials for free. Request yours here.