We have received some questions about our November 2020 recommendation of Wild Animal Initiative as a Top Charity, which stem from the fact that historically, we have only granted that status to charities that primarily work on farmed animal issues. We hope that this post will address any confusion about our decision. … Read more
ACE’s Compensation Strategy
This summer, we developed our first standardized wage formula at Animal Charity Evaluators (ACE). Here we share the factors that we decided to include, those we left out, and our reasoning, in the hope that our considerations will be useful for other effective altruism (EA) and animal advocacy organizations. … Read more
Movement Grants: November 2019 Grantee Updates
We are delighted to share with you some updates from our second round of Movement Grants (formerly “Effective Animal Advocacy Fund”) recipients. All grantees are required to report their progress via a questionnaire, but to preserve confidentiality and uphold transparency between Animal Charity Evaluators (ACE) and the grantees, it is optional for grantees to allow ACE to publish their progress. … Read more
Study Proposals from Our First Research Workshop on Effective Animal Advocacy
Summary
Last month ACE hosted the 2017 Research Workshop on Effective Animal Advocacy at Claremont Graduate University (CGU) in California. The event was intended to complement our 2016 Symposium on Multidisciplinary Research in Effective Animal Advocacy, held at Princeton University last fall. … Read more
Volunteer Effectively
As part of our Advocacy Advice month, we’d like to announce that we have recently updated our Volunteer Effectively page. If you currently volunteer or are considering dedicating some of your time to help animals, we encourage you to read the full page of tips and suggestions. … Read more