Toni Adleberg
Toni Adleberg
Announcing our 2019 Charity Recommendations
by Toni Adleberg - 9 minute readCross-posted to Effective Altruism Forum
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We update our list of Top and Standout recommended charities annually. This year, we are publishing our updates on December 2nd, just in time for Giving Tuesday.
Introduction
We are excited to announce that this year we’ve selected four Top Charities:
The Albert Schweitzer Foundation, … Read more
How We Evaluate Workplace Culture
by Toni Adleberg - 18 minute read
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We believe that a healthy workplace culture is an essential component of any effective organization. That’s why having “a healthy culture and a sustainable structure” is one of our seven evaluation criteria. The main purpose of our culture survey is to catch any serious cultural problems that might prevent a charity from operating effectively. … Read more
Roundtable: How Can Animal Advocates Support Other Movements?
by Toni Adleberg - 21 minute read
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We believe that the animal advocacy movement should work to better integrate diversity, equity, and inclusion into its values. We asked some informed animal advocates for concrete examples of ways that people in the animal advocacy movement can support other movements. … Read more
Announcing Our 2018 Charity Recommendations
by Toni Adleberg - 8 minute read
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We update our list of Top and Standout recommended charities annually. This year, we are publishing our updates on November 26, just in time for Giving Tuesday.
Introduction
We are excited to announce that this year (for the first time) we have selected four Top Charities, … Read more
Comparison Chart of our 2018 Recommended Charities
by Toni Adleberg - 3 minute read
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To allow our readers to quickly compare our recommended charities, we’ve produced a chart that provides key information about each of our Top and Standout Charities. This is intended to give you a sense of what our recommended charities do, what makes them so promising, … Read more
Some Updates to Our Charity Evaluation Process: 2018
by Toni Adleberg - 9 minute read
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At ACE, we continually assess our own programs and actively look for ways to improve. We discuss potential changes to our evaluation process each year during a “post-mortem” meeting that we hold soon after the publication of our reviews—while the process is fresh in our minds. We also solicit feedback from the charities we’ve evaluated to consider ways in which we can improve the process for them. We hope that the changes we’re implementing this year will result in improvements in (i) the experience of the charities we work with, (ii) our efficiency, and (iii) the quality of our reviews. … Read more
Roundtable: How Can We Effectively Help Animals in Brazil?
by Toni Adleberg - 22 minute read
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In our new roundtable blog series, we ask a handful of contributors to provide their points of view on complex topics or unsettled questions. We hope that this approach will help us to integrate and learn from multiple perspectives on animal advocacy. … Read more
Roundtable: What Can Animal Charities Do to Promote Healthy Work Cultures?
by Toni Adleberg - 15 minute read
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In our new roundtable blog series, we ask a handful of contributors to provide their points of view on complex topics or unsettled questions. We hope that this approach will help us to integrate and learn from multiple perspectives on animal advocacy. … Read more
Conversation with Director of Campaigns at The Humane League
by Toni Adleberg - 10 minute read
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The Director of Campaigns at The Humane League (THL) spoke with ACE Researcher Toni Adleberg on June 30, 2017. This is a summary of their conversation.
The Use of Protests at THL
Protests have been a growing component of our work towards corporate campaigns and welfare reform. … Read more
Conversation with Zach Groff
by Toni Adleberg - 10 minute read
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Zach Groff was1 an organizer with Direct Action Everywhere (DxE). He spoke with ACE Researcher Toni Adleberg on February 15, 2017. This is a summary of their conversation.
What can protests accomplish?
Protests are, unfortunately, a “black box;” … Read more
Conversation with Mikael Roldsgaard Nielsen of Mercy For Animals
by Toni Adleberg - 6 minute read
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Mikael Roldsgaard Nielsen is the Campaigns Manager for Latin America and Brazil at Mercy For Animals (MFA). He spoke with ACE Researcher Toni Adleberg on March 20, 2017. This is a summary of their conversation.
Why does MFA organize protests?
These days, … Read more
Conversation with Matthew Dominguez of the Nonhuman Rights Project
by Toni Adleberg - 14 minute read
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Matthew Dominguez is the Director of public affairs and government relations at the Nonhuman Rights Project. He spoke with ACE Researcher Toni Adleberg on July 26, 2017. This is a summary of their conversation.
What led you to the Nonhuman Rights Project? … Read more
Conversation with Isha Datar and Erin Kim of New Harvest
by Toni Adleberg - 18 minute read
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Isha Datar and Erin Kim are the Executive Director and the Communications Director of New Harvest, respectively. They spoke with ACE Researcher Toni Adleberg on July 25, 2017. This is a summary of their conversation.
What are New Harvest’s three biggest accomplishments from the past year? … Read more
Common Misconceptions of Effective Animal Advocacy
by Toni Adleberg - 11 minute read
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Effective animal advocates (EAAs) are members of the effective altruism movement. They use reason and evidence to identify the most effective ways to help animals, and they act on that evidence.
A central component of EAA is the willingness to revise one’s views in light of new evidence. … Read more
ACE Highlight: Our Use of Cost-Effectiveness Estimates
by Toni Adleberg - 4 minute read
Introduction
ACE employs both qualitative and quantitative strategies in our work to identify highly effective ways to help animals. One way that we evaluate interventions or charities quantitatively is by assigning numerical values to their immediate costs and benefits. We then use those values to calculate a cost-effectiveness estimate (CEE) in terms of “lives spared per dollar” or “years of suffering averted per dollar.”1 These estimates allow us to directly compare different interventions and charities, … Read more
Updates on Select Recommended Charities’ Room for More Funding
by Toni Adleberg - 8 minute read
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When we evaluate a charity comprehensively, we publish an estimate of the amount of additional funding we think the charity could use effectively the following year. Since we can’t predict exactly how any charity will respond upon receiving more funds than they have planned for, … Read more
ACE Interviews: Collectively Free
by Toni Adleberg - 9 minute read
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We recently had the pleasure of speaking with Raffi Ciavatta and Lili Trenkova. Raffi is an “art Director/Graphic Designer, immigrant, queer, activist, poet, and radical dreamer.” Lili is an “organizer, environmental designer, 3D artist, fabricator, and musician.” They are the co-founders of Collectively Free. … Read more
How Can We Integrate Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion into the Animal Advocacy Movement?
by Toni Adleberg - 19 minute read
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At Animal Charity Evaluators, our focus is on identifying the most effective ways to help animals. To follow through with this mandate, we believe it is necessary for the animal advocacy movement to engage larger portions of the population and to embrace diversity, … Read more
How We Evaluate Social Media Impact
by Toni Adleberg - 14 minute read
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Before we began our 2016 charity evaluations, we researched the ways that animal charities use social media and developed a plan to quantitatively estimate the social media impact of each charity. We developed a two-step process for estimating social media impact. … Read more
The Process Leading to Our 2016 Recommendations
by Toni Adleberg - 8 minute read
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This blog post provides a brief discussion of the specific process that led to our 2016 recommendation update. For a more detailed description of the process, see our 2016 Evaluation Process page. For a general description of our evaluation process, read about our General Evaluation Process. … Read more
Our Thoughts on the Cost-Effectiveness of Retention Programs
by Toni Adleberg - 8 minute read
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Introduction
By reducing their meat consumption, individuals can spare a significant number of animals and prevent years of suffering on factory farms. All of our current top charities have programs designed to encourage people to eat fewer animal products. Some of them also have retention programs that are designed to help current vegetarians and vegans maintain their diets. … Read more
Some Thoughts About Vegan Outreach’s Leaflet Study
by Toni Adleberg - 10 minute read
Introduction
We’re always excited to see new research on effective animal advocacy, so of course the recent Vegan Outreach leaflet study has caught our attention. The study has many merits. For example, it investigates participants’ self-reported dietary choices, which might contribute to our understanding of how to best help farmed animals. … Read more