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
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How We Evaluate Social Media Impact
Before we began our 2016 charity evaluations, we researched the ways that animal charities use social media and developed a plan to quantitatively estimate the social media impact of each charity. We developed a two-step process for estimating social media impact. … 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
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
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