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
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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
Matching Gift Programs
With ACE’s Matching Gift Campaign coming to a close, and the global day dedicated to giving back, #GivingTuesday, taking place on December 2nd, we thought that now was a good time to talk about corporate matching gift programs.
A matching gift program is when a corporation matches donations from their employees to (eligible) nonprofits of the employees’ choosing. … Read more
The Centre for Effective Altruism is Hiring
The Centre for Effective Altruism promotes the use of evidence and reason to find out how to make the world as good as it can be. Animal Charity Evaluators started as part of CEA, but is now independently operated, though still affiliated. … Read more
ACE Highlight: Categories
When deciding on which organizations to review and how deeply to review them, it is important to develop a categorization system that accurately reflects the process. We put considerable thought into developing our categories, but have frequently been asked to further explain the meaning of each designation. … Read more