Last December, ACE began talking with Lewis Bollard from the Open Philanthropy Project about the possibility of becoming a grant recipient. We are now excited to announce that Open Phil has awarded ACE a two-year grant totaling $500,000. The disbursement of this grant will be spread over a two-year period. … Read more
Transparency
2017 Prospective Goals
Later this year we will update our three-year strategic plan, which currently covers 2015-2017. In this post, we briefly discuss our goals for 2017. Our approach to this task was to list everything that we would like to do at this point in time. … Read more
Looking Back at 2016 Prospective Goals
Below we discuss last year’s prospective goals and whether we were able to meet them. While we succeeded in accomplishing most of these goals, we were unsuccessful in certain areas. Since we were ambitious in our pursuits, we are satisfied with the rate of success we achieved. … Read more
Responses to Common Critiques
As we continue steadily growing our organization, we are constantly trying to learn and improve. We find it useful to engage with critiques from others, and we share some of our responses and thoughts on feedback we’ve received below. We’ve selected critiques that we feel are most important, … Read more
ACE’s Room for More Funding
Animal Charity Evaluators has grown considerably over the past year. In 2015, we doubled the size of our staff, with our eight team members constituting 5.625 full-time equivalent employees. This was made possible by our large increases in revenue over the past years: In 2013, … Read more