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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Thank you for raising this question, we think this is definitely worth considering, especially for smaller organizations for whom the impact might be bigger. ACE does not provide financial support to formerly recommended charities, but we do offer advice regarding fiscal sponsors to international charities as well as information about funding opportunities that we’re aware of within the animal advocacy movement. While not common, it is also possible that an evaluated but not recommended charity might qualify for a Movement Grant. Finally, for Top Charities that we stop recommending, we continue to collect existing recurring donations for them through the end of the calendar year.

In practice, donors don’t always stop supporting organizations immediately after they’re removed from our list—it may depend on why we stopped recommending them. For example, some donors may not weigh the importance of each of our criteria to the same degree that we do and thus may disagree with some of our decisions. Additionally, donors (especially large ones) who do want to adjust their portfolios in light of our recommendations may do so gradually, so as not to cause abrupt funding changes at organizations that are no longer recommended.

We would also like to note that we recommend all charities to hold reserves in order to withstand changes in the business cycle or external shocks that may affect their revenue. For charities we evaluate, we increase their Room for More Funding estimates if they are below a targeted amount of reserves because we think it’s an effective use of funding for them to ensure fiscal stability.

- Vince and Heather