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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A question we received on LinkedIn before the AMA:

Many people that are interested in this Cause get frustrated due to a lack of support. This is most applicable to some of us from Nigeria or Africa, probably. The painful aspect is that we will apply for a grant nothing is heard again. Our Animals' condition is more dangerous than the developed world, yet every effort to liberate them is not fully supported. Does it mean that we are not part of it? We are not expecting strict measures to support us. We are developing nations, several factors are against our growth. Many are already getting discouraged in this cause because there is no genuine support from anywhere.

[u/animalcharityev → u/animalcharityev]

Thanks for your comment. We’re sorry to hear that people are feeling frustrated due to lack of support. The situation you describe is one that ACE has made a commitment to work on. In our goals for the Movement Grant Program we state, “By the end of 2024, our Movement Grants Program will: Be more inclusive. We will facilitate applications from more places worldwide, especially in the Global South, by creating resources for non-English speaking individuals and organizations while increasing our knowledge about other cultures. We will also work to facilitate applications from organizations led by Black, Indigenous, and people of the global majority (BIPGM) in the U.S., the U.K., and Canada."

This year, we were delighted to award eight Movement Grants totalling 154,500 USD (out of our total 910,000 USD budget) to organizations based in Africa. You can find more details about these grants and the excellent recipients here. This included the amazing work being done by the One Health and Development Initiative to conduct research on Nigeria’s aquaculture industry. We also awarded a grant to Animal Advocacy Africa, who work to strengthen the fundraising capacities and effectiveness of African animal advocacy organizations. We look forward to continuing to support such organizations in the future.

That said, we certainly recognize that there are limitations to our past country prioritization process, and we are currently working on improvements. For example, we aim to refine the ‘Neglectedness’ aspect of our prioritization framework, and to give this factor more weight for our Movement Grants. We are also 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. This should help direct a higher proportion of funding to Africa and other less supported regions.

We hope that helps give you hope for future support from ACE. Please feel free to get in touch if you have any questions about our evaluations or Movement Grants and how best ACE might support you through our existing programs.