In 2016, we wanted to introduce a way for members of our audience interested in exploring all of our recommended charities to quickly compare them, and identify those that particularly spoke to their interests. To this end, we produced a comparison chart that provided some key information about our Top and Standout Charities. … Read more
Recommendations
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
Updated Charity Recommendations: December 2017
ACE updates our recommendations each year by December 1. This year, we are publishing our recommendations a few days early in order to have our most recent updates live in time for Giving Tuesday.
We’re excited to announce that our newest Top Charities are Animal Equality, … Read more
Some Updates to Our Charity Evaluation Process: 2017
As we begin our 2017 evaluation process, we’re releasing a few updates to our criteria and evaluation methods. This year we have reworded and reordered our criteria, continued tweaking how we evaluate organizational factors that influence effectiveness through our last two criteria, added conversations with non-leadership employees to our plan for comprehensive evaluations, started offering participation grants, and updated the structure of the criterion which addresses the qualitative aspects of a charity’s programmatic impact. … Read more
How Should We Evaluate Organizational Factors That Affect Charity Performance?
ACE evaluates charities using multiple criteria, in an effort to identify the most cost-effective animal advocacy charities and programs for donors to support. Some of our criteria—such as cost-effectiveness calculations and room for additional funding—address factors that have a clear, direct influence on how effective we would expect additional donations to be. … Read more