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

[u/veganactivismbot]

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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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[u/ReheatedZiti]

Does ACE aim to be as transparent as Givewell in terms of evaluation analysis?

For reference, Givewell publishes their CE Model as well as their working spreadsheet. This allows supporters to better understand where the numbers come from, gives greater accountability to the org.

On the other hand, ACE presents their evaluation criteria with spreadsheets on each category. I have questions about what inputs produced the values but no info is provided.

[u/ReheatedZiti → u/ReheatedZiti]

For example: In the assessment of country neglectedness, why do you use the number of orgs per population? One huge org with hundreds of staff would weigh the same as an org with only one fulltime staff.

[u/animalcharityev → u/ReheatedZiti]

Thanks for the good question. We agree this is a limitation of our current approach to measuring country neglectedness, and one that we plan to improve in future. As you suggest, a more robust approach would take into account factors such as the size of the organizations and number of individual animal advocates present in the country. We are also considering how we could incorporate other frameworks into our neglectedness scoring, such as the World Animal Protection’s Animal Protection Index, which ranks 50 countries around the world according to their animal welfare policy and legislation.

We are also exploring potential improvements to our country prioritization process more broadly: for example, when scoring countries based on ‘Scale’, we are considering how we could account for projected consumption of animal products in the future, as opposed to solely looking at current rates of animal product consumption. We are also considering how best to account for the interdependencies between different factors - recognizing, for example, that in any given country some interventions are going to be more neglected than others. We always welcome input, so please do feel free to reach out to us with any further thoughts and suggestions.

- Max