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Hi! We're researchers from Animal Charity Evaluators (ACE), and for the next two hours, we'll be answering questions about our 2024 charity recommendations and our charity evaluations process.

Our team answering questions is:

  1. Elisabeth Ormandy, Programs Director
  2. Vince Mak,
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Hey there! Thank you so much for your work! A couple of questions:

- Do you have an explicit method on how you arrive at whether a charity is being recommended based on the "scores"/evaluations they receive on your different criteria? I.e., do they need to clear a certain bar in every criteria, are some criteria (say, Impact) weighted more than others (say Organizational Health), is there a "total sum" that needs to be exceeded, etc.?

- Are there/do you intend to publish more detailed reviews of the charities that were not recommended?

- After having revised the methodology quite a bit, what are some areas in your new methodology that you are uncertain about and why?

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Animal Charity Evaluators
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Thank you for the great questions! It looks like we've answered all of them so we'll be signing off for now. Feel free to submit more questions if you have them—we'll keep an eye on this thread and try to respond later in the week. As always, if you have any questions about our work, you can also reach out to us on email via our website. If you’re looking for impactful giving opportunities for animals this giving season, for a limited time, all donations to our Recommended Charity Fund will be matched! Your support will help all 11 of our Recommended Charities that we estimate will have an exceptional impact for animals with additional donations. Thank you!
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Hey Ula, great question! This year we conducted an influenced-giving analysis to assess ACE’s counterfactual impact on funding via our Charity Evaluations and Movement Grants programs. We aim to publish the full reports on November 29th. During our last fiscal year (April 2023-March 2024) the total reported ACE-influenced donations to the charities recommended during that time was $8.5 million, and we estimate that $3.7 million of this would not have been donated if not for ACE’s influence. The upcoming report will thoroughly explain how this was calculated.  Our charity recommendations last for two years. We don’t guarantee that any charity is re-evaluated or re-recommended, so charities know to prepare for that when their two-year recommendation cycle ends. For some charities, being recommended by ACE might be their first introduction to certain donors. Anecdotally we’ve also found that some donors choose to continue donating to formerly recommended charities.  We expect that being recommended for the first time, leads to a greater increase in funding than retaining a recommendation. The same seems likely for a recommendation for a newer intervention or animal group, or for a younger charity compared to the budget impact of a recommendation for a well-known charity. According to a recent survey, ACE’s annual influence per charity has varied anywhere from about $150,000 to $1,000,000+. Some of those gifts might not be fully counterfactual (this will also be further explained in the report coming out next week). Assessing budget impact and change in recommendation status is something we need to examine further though, so we’ll be expanding our impact assessment work this year to include more than just our quantitative counterfactual impact on funding. Considering each of our Recommended Charities have significant room for more funding, we suggest donating to our Recommended Charity Fund because these gifts are currently being matched. Donations will help all 11

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These are my notes of the "Civil Litigation for Farmed Animals" from EAGxBerkeley, given by Alene Anello, president of Legal Impact for Chickens (LIC).

It was an excellent talk, exploring a front of the animal welfare movement that, in my opinion, has the potential...

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