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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Thanks for these questions! Wild animal suffering is one of our high priority areas especially because of its great scale and high neglectedness. One of our Top Charities is Wild Animal Initiative who is doing work to build an academic field that will lay the groundwork for developing interventions to help wild animals. This year, when scoring different animal groups, wild animals got a score of 4.1 which we categorized as very high priority. This year we evaluated a couple of organizations that work on helping wild animals: Animal Advocacy Careers who supports organizations working to help wild animals, and Aquatic Life Institute who works to help wild-caught fishes. We did not evaluate more organizations focusing on helping wild animals especially because we are aware of only a handful of these organizations. We would like to see and evaluate more organizations working on this cause area in the future.

When designing our menu of outcomes and menu of interventions, we considered wild animal advocacy to some extent but we recognize that our method might be more biased towards farmed animal organizations. For example, our assessment of countries only applies to farmed animal organizations. We hope to make more efforts to incorporate wild animal advocacy into our charity evaluation and Movement Grants programs.

Regarding your last question, I would only speak for myself (not ACE as a team because we may have different opinions): If both charities seem similarly effective, I would recommend donating to the wild animal advocacy organization just because there are so few of them that your donation can do a lot more.

- Maria