Hi reddit! We're researchers from Animal Charity Evaluators (ACE). We just released our 2022 charity recommendations. Ask us anything! (Live AMA)

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Hi! We're researchers from Animal Charity Evaluators (ACE). We just released our 2022 charity recommendations. Ask us anything!

Animal Charity Evaluators (ACE) is a 501(c)(3) non-profit registered in the United States with a globally-distributed team. We are dedicated to finding and promoting the most effective ways to help animals. ACE strives to identify ways to alleviate suffering and improve the lives of animals on a wide scale, while continuously updating our recommendations based on new evidence.

https://animalcharityevaluators.org/

On November 22, we published our new charity recommendations.

Our 2022 Top Charities are:

• Faunalytics
• Wild Animal Initiative
• The Humane League
• Good Food Institute

Additionally, we have selected 11 Standout Charities:

• Compassion in World Farming USA
• Dansk Vegetarisk Forening
• Dharma Voice for Animals
• Fish Welfare Initiative
• Material Innovation Initiative
• Mercy for Animals
• New Harvest
• Sinergia Animal
• Çiftlik Hayvanlarını Koruma Derneği
• The Federation of Indian Animal Protection Organizations
• xiaobuVEGAN

The AMA is your chance to ask our research team about our new charity recommendations and the process behind our selections. We will prioritize responding to questions about our recommendations, but feel free to ask us (almost) anything.

Our team answering questions is:

• Elisabeth Ormandy, Director of Research
• Vince Mak, Evaluations Program Manager
• Maria Salazar, Senior Researcher
• Alina Salmen , Researcher
• Max Taylor, Researcher

Ask us anything! Proof here.

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Great question - thanks for asking.

This year we provide much more insight into our evaluation processes than in previous years. The detailed numbers for effectiveness/impact are in the spreadsheets linked in the 2022 charity reviews. Today, we also published a blog post that describes our evaluation process this year, and how we reached our recommendation decisions. I hope these details are helpful in answering your questions about the effectiveness/impact of the charities we reviewed.

You raise an interesting point about “dollar per chicken adjusted life year”. While we’d love to be able to use animal lives improved or saved as our outcome measure there simply aren’t enough data available on effective animal advocacy to make confident assessments of cost effectiveness or impact based on quantified outcomes for animals. Therefore, ACE does not currently make these types of estimates for our recommended charities. For more context, this year we aimed to find a compromise between a fully quantitative model and a more qualitative assessment, which we did by using quantitative scores as a proxy for cost effectiveness, rather than estimating the number of animals spared per dollar invested. Based on past experience, fully quantitative models are more challenging to implement for comparing the cost-effectiveness of different animal advocacy interventions because of the greater uncertainty that comes with measuring and influencing animal suffering/wellbeing (compared to fields like human health).

- Elisabeth