Why does ACE review such a small number of animal charities? Why do we only publish charity reviews with the charities’ permission? Why do we allow charities to decline to be reviewed or to decline to publish reviews that we’ve written? In this post, we respond to some frequently asked questions and explain our thinking behind ACE’s role in the animal advocacy movement. … Read more
Recommendations
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
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
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