It’s a complicated question, I think in the animal movement there are a variety of different “Pathways to Victory” and ongoing debates on what the most effective solutions are.
Realistically though your donation is counterfactually going to go further in neglected geographies so it may be worth looking towards Asia, Africa, Latin America and the Middle East.
Beyond that, you have your animal cause area (Wild, Farmed etc), intervention type (Direct help, Lobbying, Movement Building, Research, Education and so on), and stage of the organisation. Then, maybe, you’re adding how talented and how much you trust the founders/staff and organisation.
So basically you’re playing mix and match with the above based on what you think is effective.
Some Ideas:
https://www.animalallianceasia.org/ - Asian capacity building, are starting a regranting program, so could see what effective orgs there are in Asia through them.
https://www.sinergiaanimalinternational.org/ - Doing work In Latin America and Asia (I’m least familiar with south America as a region) but could be a good touchpoint to find effective programs there.
Just some orgs/areas I’d be looking to if I were to donate, but it strongly depends on your personal and moral thoughts on what works and what doesn’t. For example, I’m more interested in meta, movement building orgs as I believe we’re quite early stage to ending animal agriculture, but there are tons of other different types of organisations as well, like fish/shrimp welfare, Animal Ask, alt protein, Cage-free movements like THL and so on.
It’s a complicated question, I think in the animal movement there are a variety of different “Pathways to Victory” and ongoing debates on what the most effective solutions are.
Realistically though your donation is counterfactually going to go further in neglected geographies so it may be worth looking towards Asia, Africa, Latin America and the Middle East.
Beyond that, you have your animal cause area (Wild, Farmed etc), intervention type (Direct help, Lobbying, Movement Building, Research, Education and so on), and stage of the organisation. Then, maybe, you’re adding how talented and how much you trust the founders/staff and organisation.
So basically you’re playing mix and match with the above based on what you think is effective.
Some Ideas:
https://www.animalallianceasia.org/ - Asian capacity building, are starting a regranting program, so could see what effective orgs there are in Asia through them.
https://www.animaladvocacyafrica.org/ - African capacity building, we’re looking to regrant in 2023 and have a funding gap for it, I’m a co-founder so am slightly biased! (Orgs to look at in Africa)
https://www.sinergiaanimalinternational.org/ - Doing work In Latin America and Asia (I’m least familiar with south America as a region) but could be a good touchpoint to find effective programs there.
https://funds.effectivealtruism.org/funds/animal-welfare—If you don’t know where to give or want to evaluate this is a great bet, they fund a lot of early work that probably wouldn’t happen without them
https://animalcharityevaluators.org/donation-advice/ace-movement-grants/ - Imo they have improved their granting and evaluation criteria recently, I think now an EA is a primary evaluator (but not sure), it’s not perfect but I think it’s a lot better than it historically has been
https://kafessizturkiye.com/ - Turkish org doing cage-free, I’ve met the founder, and he is a great advocate
Just some orgs/areas I’d be looking to if I were to donate, but it strongly depends on your personal and moral thoughts on what works and what doesn’t. For example, I’m more interested in meta, movement building orgs as I believe we’re quite early stage to ending animal agriculture, but there are tons of other different types of organisations as well, like fish/shrimp welfare, Animal Ask, alt protein, Cage-free movements like THL and so on.