Farmed fish welfare should plausibly be one of the effective animal advocacy community’s priorities because of the current neglectedness of the issue, the likelihood that farmed fish suffering is large in scale, and the potential tractability of interventions to improve farmed fish welfare. With this in mind, ACE would like to reduce uncertainty about the impact of corporate campaigns aimed at improving farmed fish welfare. We hope that our new report will help us move toward that goal. … Read more
Updates on our Top Charities’ Room for Funding
When we evaluate a charity comprehensively, we publish an estimate of the amount of additional funding we predict the charity could use effectively in the following year.1 Since we can’t predict exactly how any charity will respond upon receiving more funds than they have planned for, … Read more
Reasons Why Charities Declined to be Reviewed/Published
In order to maximize cooperation from the organizations we evaluate, we give them the option to decline to be reviewed or to deny the publication of our review (and supporting materials) at any time. Out of respect for the confidentiality of these groups’ … Read more
The Process Leading to Our 2017 Recommendations
This post provides a brief discussion of the specific process that led to our 2017 recommendation update. For a more detailed description of the process, please see our 2017 Evaluation Process page. For a general description of our evaluation process, please read about our General Evaluation Process. … Read more
ACE Highlight: Updated Leafleting Intervention Report
Leafleting is a common intervention in farmed animal advocacy that is carried out by many organizations. In 2015, Vegan Outreach alone reported distributing close to 3 million leaflets,1 most of which were handed out on college campuses.2 In order to evaluate the effectiveness of leafleting, … Read more