A closed system survives on one assumption: that no one will organize to challenge it. Every clinic, veterinarian, and family that steps forward proves that wrong — and brings reform closer. Here's how you can help.
Reform is built one person at a time — and there's a role here for whoever you are, whatever you bring.
Add your name to the clinics, veterinarians, and families standing for reform. The more of us, the harder this is to ignore.
Count me in →Couldn't hire. Waited weeks. Priced out of care. Your experience is evidence — and evidence moves people.
Tell us →Have an audience — followers, a newsletter, a community? Help carry the crisis to people who haven't heard it yet.
Share the crisis →Give a few hours where it counts: research, outreach, events, and the steady work that builds a movement.
Pitch in →Lawyers, academics, organizers, communicators — specialized skills move this faster. Tell us what you bring.
Offer your skills →Practice owners and organizations: lend your name as a founding member and help lead the credible face of reform.
Become a founding member →Licensure is decided state by state. Tell us you're ready to help in yours, and we'll be in touch as we build.
Raise your hand →NAVEC is a nonprofit. Contributions fund the evidence, the organizing, and the case for change.
Support NAVEC →Follow the Newsroom for updates as the campaign advances and the case grows.
Visit the Newsroom →Tell us who you are and how you'd like to help — it takes a minute, and we'll follow up personally.
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The research, the organizing, the public record that makes a captured system harder to defend — all of it takes resources. NAVEC is a nonprofit, funded by people who decided the shortage and the secrecy were no longer acceptable. Give what you can. Every gift keeps the pressure on.
NAVEC is an independent nonprofit. Contributions support our research, organizing, and advocacy.
NAVEC exists to ensure veterinary medicine is governed by fairness, transparency, ethics, and merit. We defend affordable access to quality care, the people working in the profession, and the public good against closed, unaccountable systems.
Because the supply is controlled, not market-driven. A single private body — a council of the veterinary trade association — is the only accreditor of U.S. veterinary schools, and the country has had only about 34 schools for roughly 45 years, even as demand soared. Human medicine, with two competing accreditors, opens about two new schools every year. One gatekeeper instead of competition produces a pipeline far too narrow for a nation of 372 million animals.
Directly — at the front desk and in the bill. When a profession's supply is held artificially low, families wait weeks for appointments, drive farther for emergency care, and pay more for routine visits. Many pet owners now skip needed care entirely because they can't afford it or can't get in.
Yes. NAVEC defends the veterinarians and aspiring veterinarians shut out or burdened by closed, non-competitive systems — including internationally trained veterinarians forced through bottlenecks no domestic graduate faces, and candidates silenced by exam rules that bar them from even discussing the test. A larger, fairer, more transparent profession serves practitioners and the public alike.
Join our briefing list to stay informed, share our findings, and support our research and advocacy. Reform advances when association with the status quo becomes costlier than change — and that depends on public awareness. Every name and every share adds to it.
No. NAVEC is an independent nonprofit organization. We hold no regulatory power. We advocate for transparency, competition, and public oversight of the private bodies that currently govern veterinary medicine without it.
A veterinary system with competing accreditors, schools that open in years instead of decades, a licensing exam governed in the open, and credentialing pathways that match capacity to demand — so the supply of veterinarians can finally meet the needs of the animals and people who depend on them.
We maintain a confidential channel for current and former insiders, candidates, and professionals who have witnessed problems in accreditation, testing, or licensure. Email us at info@navec.org and ask to reach our intake team — we protect the identity of those who come forward.