Animal Charity Evaluators updates our recommendations each year on December 1. This year we’re proud to announce that our top charities are Animal Equality, Mercy For Animals, and The Humane League – the same organizations that we selected last year. All three groups continue to operate in an effective fashion and showed substantial growth over the past year. … Read more
Recommendations
The Process Leading to our 2015 Recommendations
This post describes some key features and issues of our recommendation process ending in December 2015. For more detail on our recommendation process in general, see this page.
What We Did
During 2015, we selected groups to review and conducted shallow and medium reviews in a manner similar to previous years. … Read more
Things That Surprised Us About the December 2014 Review Process
We’ve written elsewhere about our general and December 2014 review processes, with the goal of helping readers understand what we did to arrive at our recommendations. Here, I’d like to discuss in greater detail some of the surprises we encountered during our December 2014 organization review process. … Read more
Updated Recommendations: December 2014
ACE releases annual recommendations on December 1. We evaluate groups based on our evaluation criteria and publish as many reviews as we can. We then decide which top performing charities will receive our recommendation.
December 2014 Recommendations
After considering 155 charities from around the world, … Read more
Our Thinking About the Process Leading to Our December 2014 Recommendations
This post describes some of the specifics of the evaluation process leading to our December 2014 recommendation update, and what we learned from the process. For more general thoughts about our recommendation process, see this page.
General Preparation
We began preparing for this recommendation update almost immediately after we posted our previous recommendations in mid-May. … Read more