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:
- Elisabeth Ormandy, Programs Director
- Vince Mak, Charity Evaluations Manager
- Maria Salazar, Senior Researcher
- Max Taylor, Researcher
- Zuzana Sperlova, Researcher
How to participate? Make sure you've created a FAST Forum account and post your questions in the comments section.
We look forward to answering your questions!
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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?
Thanks for these questions!
- We don’t have a certain bar per criterion that charities need to meet to be recommended. It’s the totality of our assessments across all the criteria that add up to our judgment call on whether a charity is marginally cost-effective enough to be recommended. The weighting of the criteria can differ from charity to charity depending on things like the interventions they use, whether they have direct or indirect impact, whether they operate on a short- or long-term theory of change, the level of uncertainty we have, the availabilit
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