I am interested in how you would prioritise between ACE’s Movement Grants (MG) and their recommended charities. What would you recommend, if you had to recommend one of them, and why? From how I read your analysis, it seems that you think that MG are the better option. Do I read that correctly?
Hi Moritz, yes if you ask me personally, I would currently lean towards recommending MG over a randomly picked ACE recommended charity, though I’m far from confident in this /​ it’s not a claim I would be able to justify to the extent we usually want to justify our recommendations as GWWC. It’s mainly based on my view that the difference between the AWF and MG is fairly small (both are broadly trying to make cost-effective grants and are getting promising applications on the margin), whereas our criticism of ACE’s charity evaluations process a bit more fundamentally challenges it coming up with highly cost-effective donation opportunities on the margin (though I also don’t want to overstate our conclusion there). I would furthermore guess that MG is/​will be more funding-constrained relative to its aims/​applications than most of ACE’s individual charity recommendations. (but really, this is a guess: note that I haven’t looked into the charity recommendations individually!)
Thanks for your work on this!
I am interested in how you would prioritise between ACE’s Movement Grants (MG) and their recommended charities. What would you recommend, if you had to recommend one of them, and why? From how I read your analysis, it seems that you think that MG are the better option. Do I read that correctly?
Hi Moritz, yes if you ask me personally, I would currently lean towards recommending MG over a randomly picked ACE recommended charity, though I’m far from confident in this /​ it’s not a claim I would be able to justify to the extent we usually want to justify our recommendations as GWWC. It’s mainly based on my view that the difference between the AWF and MG is fairly small (both are broadly trying to make cost-effective grants and are getting promising applications on the margin), whereas our criticism of ACE’s charity evaluations process a bit more fundamentally challenges it coming up with highly cost-effective donation opportunities on the margin (though I also don’t want to overstate our conclusion there). I would furthermore guess that MG is/​will be more funding-constrained relative to its aims/​applications than most of ACE’s individual charity recommendations. (but really, this is a guess: note that I haven’t looked into the charity recommendations individually!)
Thanks for your perspective and transparency Sjir! That seems reasonable from my prior perspective and how I read your report.