Category: Recommendations
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
Recommendations Update: May 2014
In February 2014, ACE composed a new and detailed process for updating our recommendations. This effort included creating a set of rigorous criteria for evaluation, which we then used to review animal organizations and come to conclusions on new recommendations. We are proud to recommend Mercy For Animals and The Humane League as our top charities. … Read more
Update on the Review Process
ACE will release updated recommendations on May 14. We have been working on the process since January; this post will cover some general observations that we have made, along with things that we have learned. We are unable to mention specifics at this time, as we are currently requesting permission to publish various materials from organizations that made it to our medium review round. However, we can provide some more generalized information about what we have found thus far. … Read more
Upcoming Recommendation Changes
While ACE plans on updating our recommendations annually on December 1, this year we’ve additionally chosen to revise our recommendations on May 14. As we haven’t updated since our original top charity selections, we didn’t want to wait another full year before revising our top charities using our new criteria. … Read more
Shallow Evaluations Process Update
We are currently in the process of conducting our first round of organization evaluations as Animal Charity Evaluators. While the details of our evaluations of particular organizations will remain confidential until we are ready to publish our recommendations, we’re going to share reports of our process as we progress through the different evaluation stages. Right now, we’re putting the final touches on the shallow review process. Here’s what we’ve done so far. … Read more
ACE Highlight: Organization Evaluation Criteria
This spring, ACE will make its first round of recommendations under our new name. While we believe that our current recommended organizations are far more effective than the vast majority of organizations working on behalf of animals, we’re looking forward to using systematic research to investigate the fine differences between these groups and many others that share their focus on protecting farm animals. Additionally, the previous recommended organizations were chosen over a year ago, so the time is right for an update based on new evidence. … Read more