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Disclosures

Last Updated: May, 2021

This page lists affiliations that ACE has to organizations eligible for a recommendation, as per our Conflict of Interest Policy.

Compassionate Action for Animals

Assisted ACE with a 2013 leafleting study by handing out booklets.
Assisted ACE with a 2013 humane education study by enrolling students in the study.

Ethical Choices Program

Assisted ACE with a 2013 humane education study by enrolling students in the study.

Factory Farming Awareness Coalition (FFAC)

Assisted ACE with a 2013 humane education study by enrolling students in the study.

Farm Animal Rights Movement (FARM)

ACE staff have spoken at the annual Animal Rights National Conference, hosted by FARM, each year from 2014–2018.

Faunalytics

ACE worked with Faunalytics to produce a survey guidelines project in 2014. In both 2015 and 2016, ACE worked with them to update this project.
ACE consulted with Faunalytics when creating several studies in 2013.

Mercy For Animals (MFA)

ACE former board member Peter Hurford ran an online ads study in 2014–2016 that involved working with Mercy For Animals to gather data.
Assisted ACE with a 2013 leafleting study by handing out booklets.

ProVeg International

Former Executive Director of ACE Leah Edgerton was ProVeg International Strategy and Internationalization Manager.

Sentience Institute

Former ACE Researcher Jacy Reese co-founded and now works for Sentience Institute.

Sentience Politics (SP)¹

ACE accepts donations from two international countries through the Effective Altruism Foundation, SP’s parent organization.
In 2015, ACE was recommended to a donor by Raising for Effective Giving (REG), a sister organization of SP. REG staff tell us that ACE is still on the list of charities they would recommend based on donor interest.
Two ACE staff spoke at the Sentience Conference in 2016.
ACE consulted with Sentience Politics in 2016 about overlap between our respective research on animal sentience and welfare. We shared documentation to reduce duplication of effort.

The Humane League (THL)

Assisted ACE with a 2013 leafleting study by handing out booklets.
Assisted ACE with a 2013 humane education study by enrolling students in the study.

Vegan Outreach

Assisted ACE with a 2013 leafleting study by handing out booklets.

Viva!

Former ACE Media Relations Manager now works at Viva!

ACE will not evaluate Sentience Politics again until the first two conflicts in this list have been resolved.