Hi everyone, as the Chair of the Animal Welfare Fund (AWF), I want to let you know what these changes mean for AWF specifically.
I’m excited about the potential this merger has for EA Funds. With CEA’s support, we’ll be in a stronger position to grow the resources needed to solve the world’s biggest problems, increase communication efforts making the impact of projects supported by EA Funds more legible and recognized, and strengthen our capacity—ultimately resulting in more funding going to effective projects.
What will change for AWF:
Operations for AWF will now be provided by CEA rather than EV Ops,
Operational and legal due diligence on grants will now be conducted by CEA rather than EV Ops,
We will have increased capacity for fundraising and communications, allowing us to better showcase the impact of our grantees and reach more potential donors.
What remains unchanged:
Mission: AWF still aims to alleviate the suffering of animals globally by providing funding to organizations and projects that most effectively improve the lives of animals in factory farms, bring factory farming to an end, and positively affect other large-scale groups of animals,
Positioning: AWF will remain part of EA Funds, and is closely aligned with the effective giving ecosystem and its efforts,
Priorities: AWF will continue to focus on providing funding for high-leverage work in neglected areas such as invertebrate welfare, wild animal welfare, farm animal welfare opportunities in the global south, early-stage funding for promising organizations, and other high-impact areas. As planned, over the next few months, our team will be working on refining our grantmaking strategy.
Grant recommendation: AWF will maintain its independent grant evaluation and recommendation process (with grants subject to operational and legal due diligence as they were under EV),
Grantmaking: AWF will likely remain operationally able to support at least the same type of grants as under EV,
Funding: All donations to AWF, past and future, will continue to be restricted for AWF usage only,
Staff: AWF team members will remain dedicated to furthering the AWF mission,
Donation platform: Donations for AWF regranting can still be made through Giving What We Can, while we will consider setting up an internal donation platform as well.
If you have questions about how this merger will affect the Animal Welfare Fund’s work, please don’t hesitate to ask here or reach out to me directly. While I may be slow to reply, as next week I begin my extended work travel for various conferences, I will aim to reply to most messages.
Hi everyone, as the Chair of the Animal Welfare Fund (AWF), I want to let you know what these changes mean for AWF specifically.
I’m excited about the potential this merger has for EA Funds. With CEA’s support, we’ll be in a stronger position to grow the resources needed to solve the world’s biggest problems, increase communication efforts making the impact of projects supported by EA Funds more legible and recognized, and strengthen our capacity—ultimately resulting in more funding going to effective projects.
What will change for AWF:
Operations for AWF will now be provided by CEA rather than EV Ops,
Operational and legal due diligence on grants will now be conducted by CEA rather than EV Ops,
We will have increased capacity for fundraising and communications, allowing us to better showcase the impact of our grantees and reach more potential donors.
What remains unchanged:
Mission: AWF still aims to alleviate the suffering of animals globally by providing funding to organizations and projects that most effectively improve the lives of animals in factory farms, bring factory farming to an end, and positively affect other large-scale groups of animals,
Positioning: AWF will remain part of EA Funds, and is closely aligned with the effective giving ecosystem and its efforts,
Priorities: AWF will continue to focus on providing funding for high-leverage work in neglected areas such as invertebrate welfare, wild animal welfare, farm animal welfare opportunities in the global south, early-stage funding for promising organizations, and other high-impact areas. As planned, over the next few months, our team will be working on refining our grantmaking strategy.
Grant recommendation: AWF will maintain its independent grant evaluation and recommendation process (with grants subject to operational and legal due diligence as they were under EV),
Grantmaking: AWF will likely remain operationally able to support at least the same type of grants as under EV,
Funding: All donations to AWF, past and future, will continue to be restricted for AWF usage only,
Staff: AWF team members will remain dedicated to furthering the AWF mission,
Donation platform: Donations for AWF regranting can still be made through Giving What We Can, while we will consider setting up an internal donation platform as well.
If you have questions about how this merger will affect the Animal Welfare Fund’s work, please don’t hesitate to ask here or reach out to me directly. While I may be slow to reply, as next week I begin my extended work travel for various conferences, I will aim to reply to most messages.