To learn more about our supporters, ACE sent a survey in March 2015 to people who had donated to ACE during 2014. We didn’t survey people who had used ACE’s top charity recommendations but hadn’t donated directly to ACE. These people also support ACE’s work in a meaningful sense; … Read more
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Welfarists or Abolitionists? Division Hurts Animal Advocacy
The following blog post is an opinion piece written by ACE’s Executive Director, Jon Bockman. It is not meant to convey ACE’s official stance on these issues. For a Spanish translation of this post, please see ¿Bienestaristas o abolicionistas? Por qué la división perjudica a los animales. … Read more
ACE Interviews: Carrie Freeman
We recently had the opportunity to speak with Dr. Carrie Freeman about effective communication strategies for animal rights advocacy. Her most recent publication, Framing Farming, examines a fundamental question in the AR movement: should we construct farming campaign messages based more on utility or ideology? … Read more
Strategic Plans and Prospective Goals
As strategy is particularly important to the success of any organization, we spend considerable time internally discussing our plans for the future. Last month we updated our strategic plan from 2014 and replaced it with our three-year plan for 2015-2017. Our new plan features updated sections on our philosophy and our objectives, … Read more
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