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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Thanks for your questions!
1. We refine the methods of our evaluation process every year based on internal and external feedback in order to improve on the previous year and be more accurate in our assessments. We also update our position on the likely effectiveness of interventions based on new research and consider the particular situation of each country in our assessments. However, this year we didn’t explicitly score or prioritize certain interventions and countries. Instead, we analyzed the impact of the specific work of each charity using our new evaluation criteria (see below). In general (with some exceptions), we continue to prioritize work on farmed animals and wild animals, interventions that are more institutional in scope, and countries that are more neglected or have higher levels of animal suffering.
2. ACE’s methods to evaluate charities have changed a lot over the years. We used to have more criteria to evaluate charities and we have reduced that number of criteria over the years, focusing on the most important factors for making recommendation decisions. The biggest changes we made this year were introducing a process allowing interested charities to apply for evaluation (rather than ACE inviting charities to be evaluated), and updating our evaluation criteria. Specifically, we:
You can read more about our latest charity evaluation process here.
— Maria