Guest post by Tim Drees
It won’t be long before nearly everyone in the world has a smartphone. The $600 phone you bought a few years ago is less powerful than a $40 model today. The average laptop has an unimaginable amount of computing power. … Read more
Advice for Charities
ACE Highlight: Survey Guidelines
ACE is proud to release our newest project: Survey Guidelines. We developed this in collaboration with the Humane Research Council, and our hope is that this resource will be a useful tool for all individuals and organizations seeking to measure their impact. … Read more
GiveWell on Industrial Agriculture
We are excited to see GiveWell’s recent brief analysis of the treatment of animals in industrial agriculture. We admire and respect the work they’ve done on evaluating human charities and encouraging thoughtful giving practices, and this is their first major step towards considering the cost-effectiveness of interventions to prevent animal suffering on factory farms. In fact, it is almost the first thing they have written about animal causes since a blog post almost three years ago that explained why they hadn’t yet given serious consideration to animal charities. … Read more