Category: Recommendations
Announcing our 2020 Charity Recommendations
Every year, Animal Charity Evaluators (ACE) invests several months in evaluating animal advocacy organizations in order to find those that are working effectively and are able to do the most good with additional donations. Our goal is to help people help animals by providing impactful giving opportunities that reduce the most suffering possible. … Read more
Recommended Charity Fund: Six-Month Update July 2020
In January 2020, thanks to the generous support of donors to ACE’s Recommended Charity Fund, we granted $520,445.90 to our 2019 Top Charities and Standout Charities—our second highest distribution since launching the fund. Each charity has provided us with an update on how they’ve used their grants to help animals over the past six months, … Read more
Recommended Charity Fund: Six-Month Update January 2020
In July 2019, thanks to the generous support of donors to ACE’s Recommended Charity Fund, we distributed $45,538.92 to our 2018 Top Charities and Standout Charities. Each charity has provided us with an update on their work over the past six months, … Read more
The Process Leading to Our 2019 Recommendations
This post provides a brief discussion of the specific process that led to our 2019 charity recommendations. For a more detailed description of the process, please see our 2019 Evaluation Process page. For a general description of the process, please read our Evaluating Charities page. … Read more
Comparison Chart of Our 2019 Recommended Charities
View our charity comparison chart which provides key information that offer readers the ability to compare each of our Top and Standout Charities. … Read more
Announcing our 2019 Charity Recommendations
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
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
Some Updates to our Charity Evaluation Process: 2019
We have been conducting annual charity evaluations since 2014. Throughout this time, our goal has remained the same: to find and promote the most effective animal charities. Read about the changes we’ve made to our evaluation process for 2019 charity recommendations. … Read more
Recommended Charity Fund: Six-Month Update July 2019
In January, thanks to the generous support of donors to ACE’s Recommended Charity Fund, we distributed $90,754.64 to our 2018 Top Charities and Standout Charities. Each charity has provided us with an update on how they’ve used their grants to help animals over the past six months, … Read more
Recommended Charity Fund: Six-Month Update
Last July, thanks to the generous support of donors to ACE’s Recommended Charity Fund, we distributed $23,930.83 to our 2017 Top Charities and Standout Charities. Each charity has provided us with an update on how they’ve used their grants to help animals over the past six months, … Read more
Announcing Our 2018 Charity Recommendations
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
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
The Process Leading to our 2018 Recommendations
This post provides a brief discussion of the specific process that led to our 2018 recommendation update. For a more detailed description of the process, please see our 2018 Evaluation Process page. For a general description of our evaluation process, please read about our General Evaluation Process. … Read more
Some Updates to Our Charity Evaluation Process: 2018
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
Things That Surprised Us About the 2017 Evaluation Process
Each time we conduct our evaluation process, we gain new insights that allow us to improve our research. We feel it’s important to share these insights with our audience in order to solicit feedback, explain potential changes in future evaluations or our general research strategy, … Read more
Comparison of Our 2017 Top and Standout Charities
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
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
Updates on Select Recommended Charities’ Room for More Funding
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
Comparing Top and Standout Charities
As we review more charities, we have chosen to allow our list of Standout Charities to grow indefinitely, showcasing a variety of charities that do excellent work. For those members of our audience who broadly share our values but are skeptical of some of our reasoning for recommending our Top Charities, … Read more
Things that Surprised us About the December 2016 Evaluation Process
Each time we conduct our evaluation process, we gain new insights that allow us to improve our research. We feel it’s important to share these insights with our audience in order to solicit feedback, explain potential changes in future evaluations or our general research strategy, … Read more
Our Recommendations of The Good Food Institute and New Harvest
ACE doesn’t usually publish thoughts about direct comparisons between specific charities. However, we’ve received a lot of requests for clarification about our decision to recommend The Good Food Institute (GFI) as a Top Charity this year, while New Harvest, a charity working in the same field with a longer track record of accomplishments, … Read more
The Process Leading to Our 2016 Recommendations
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
Updated Recommendations: December 2016
We update our recommendations each year by December 1st. 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 proud to announce that our newest Top Charities are Mercy For Animals, … Read more
Our 2016 Recommendation of Animal Equality
Summary
For the past two years, ACE has recognized Animal Equality as a Top Charity. Needless to say, we have felt very confident in the high quality of their work, their strategic mindset, and their ability to accomplish substantial victories around the world. … Read more
Updates to Our Charity Evaluation Process
After two years and three rounds of evaluations using our charity evaluation process, we’ve decided it’s time to make some updates to our charity evaluation process, and to how we decide which ones to recommend. Here’s a brief overview of what we’ll be changing in 2016. … Read more
Things that surprised us about the December 2015 recommendation process
Each time we go through the evaluation process, we gain new insights that allow us to improve our research. We feel it’s important to share these with our audience in order to solicit feedback, explain potential changes in future evaluations or our general research strategy, … Read more
Updated Recommendations: December 2015
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