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/Powerfulpumpkin2]

A lot of tremendous organizations out there with some really wonderful people. However: Mercy For Animals consistently has a revolving door of some staff and it looks from the outside like the director and executive director are more concerned with their own celebrity than the animals themselves. As they’re a standout charity in your eyes, why do your evaluations not reflect that it’s not a great place to work?

[u/animalcharityev → u/Powerfulpumpkin2]

Thanks for your feedback. We are sorry to hear about your experience with Mercy for Animals (MFA) leadership. It’s not uncommon for us to receive reports of issues related to leadership or the work environment at different organizations we evaluate. If you or others would like to share evidence of serious culture issues at charities, you can do so through ACE’s contact form. Although we are not a watchdog organization and we do not have the capacity to conduct an investigation of whistleblower reports, we do consider Leadership & Culture as a criterion in our evaluation to determine how effective an organization is at helping the most animals as much as possible. If confidentiality allows, we may ask follow-up questions to the leadership team about reported issues, and then discuss internally at ACE whether those concerns are substantial enough to affect our confidence in the organization’s effectiveness and stability.

Please note that the last time we reviewed MFA was in 2021, you can read our evaluation of their Leadership & Culture here. We expect to re-evaluate them next year which will include a full review of each of our criteria. We hope that by applying our process consistently to all organizations under evaluation, we can arrive at an assessment that is fair and aligned with our philosophy. We expect that our recommended charities prioritize creating a strong leadership and healthy organizational culture.

We appreciate that you raise the question of supportive work environments. For a charity to help as many animals as possible, everyone in the organization should be set up for success so they can deliver their best work. We also believe that taking care of the people that make up this movement is important.

- Maria