Thanks for the kind words! Really glad to hear you’re likely to support the great work being done by our Recommended Charities.
Like you say, involvement with EA is a hard thing to judge: I wouldn’t feel qualified to name directors that I believe are involved in EA, for example. Also, while all the charities we recommend use evidence-driven strategies to achieve the maximum benefits for animals, many of them might not consider themselves EA, or might not want to be labelled as such for strategic reasons. In answer to your more specific question, two of our Recommended Charities were incubated by Charity Entrepreneurship: Fish Welfare Initiative and Shrimp Welfare Project.
As it sounds like you’re already aware, we don’t assess ‘EA alignment’ as part of our evaluations. In part, this is because we think it’s very likely that the animal advocacy movement needs to be pluralistic if it’s going to bring about long-term systemic change, so we want to support a wide range of organizations rather than limiting ourselves to a specific sub-set. That said, we’re also very aware of the risk of personal biases affecting our assessments and the need to mitigate that risk, which is one of the reasons that we seek to quantify our decision-making as much as possible and to be transparent about all of our methodology and decision-making. It might also be helpful to know that not all of our researchers identify as EA.
If this is something you’re still concerned with, the best option for you might be to give to ACE’s Recommended Charity Fund instead of to a single charity. Then your donation will be distributed among each of our recommended charities. That’s also the easiest option if you want to simplify your giving while supporting the diversity of solutions that we believe are necessary to reduce animal suffering effectively. And donations to this fund will be matched if made by December 6!
I hope that’s partway helpful despite not answering your specific question, and thanks again for engaging with our work and considering supporting our Recommended Charities’ excellent work.
Thanks for the kind words! Really glad to hear you’re likely to support the great work being done by our Recommended Charities.
Like you say, involvement with EA is a hard thing to judge: I wouldn’t feel qualified to name directors that I believe are involved in EA, for example. Also, while all the charities we recommend use evidence-driven strategies to achieve the maximum benefits for animals, many of them might not consider themselves EA, or might not want to be labelled as such for strategic reasons. In answer to your more specific question, two of our Recommended Charities were incubated by Charity Entrepreneurship: Fish Welfare Initiative and Shrimp Welfare Project.
As it sounds like you’re already aware, we don’t assess ‘EA alignment’ as part of our evaluations. In part, this is because we think it’s very likely that the animal advocacy movement needs to be pluralistic if it’s going to bring about long-term systemic change, so we want to support a wide range of organizations rather than limiting ourselves to a specific sub-set. That said, we’re also very aware of the risk of personal biases affecting our assessments and the need to mitigate that risk, which is one of the reasons that we seek to quantify our decision-making as much as possible and to be transparent about all of our methodology and decision-making. It might also be helpful to know that not all of our researchers identify as EA.
If this is something you’re still concerned with, the best option for you might be to give to ACE’s Recommended Charity Fund instead of to a single charity. Then your donation will be distributed among each of our recommended charities. That’s also the easiest option if you want to simplify your giving while supporting the diversity of solutions that we believe are necessary to reduce animal suffering effectively. And donations to this fund will be matched if made by December 6!
I hope that’s partway helpful despite not answering your specific question, and thanks again for engaging with our work and considering supporting our Recommended Charities’ excellent work.
- Max