EA Organisation Updates thread: May 2026
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Anima International Organization Updates:
Anima International Fellowship 2026
A reminder that applications for the Anima International Fellowship close on May 17th. The Fellowship is a fully funded 3-week in-person program for those considering working in effective animal advocacy. It will take place in Warsaw, September 1–20. We cover flights, accommodation, meals, and participation in the CARE Conference + offer a €1,500–€3,500 stipend. It’s open for applicants worldwide, no prior advocacy experience required.
CARE Conference 2026
You can apply for travel support to attend CARE Conference 2026 (Warsaw, September 17–20). If you want to attend CARE but the cost of travel is stopping you, we may be able to help. We review support requests on a rolling basis, so please apply as early as possible. Applications close July 1st.
Wild Animal Initiative has published its 2025 annual report.
Building a scientific field for wild animal welfare science isn’t just about publishing papers or funding research (though we did plenty of both last year). It’s about the connections that form when scientists meet, collaborate, and champion a shared vision. In 2025, we watched those connections multiply in exciting ways.
Here’s a glimpse of what supporters in the EA community helped make possible:
15 research grants awarded across 26 countries — including our first projects in Costa Rica, Italy, Serbia, and Tanzania
12 scientific conferences attended, sparking new collaborations and introducing more researchers to wild animal welfare science
Completion of fieldwork on our house sparrow project and first associated paper published
Events spotlighting wild animal welfare organized independently by our collaborators — a sign that the field is taking on a life of its own
Inside the report, you’ll find data, narratives, and visualizations that provide further insight on our field-building strategy and success so far.
MATS is hiring for a Head of People role, which will be both our first fully dedicated HR/People/People Operations role, as well as part of our leadership team.
There are lots of systems and processes that we want to build and develop, and we are looking for people who have the experience of building the HR parts of an organization. This will be a busy and complex role. The most competitive candidates will have experience helping a tech and/or non-profit organization scale from sub-50 to 100+, as well as more than one experience of building an HR function from scratch. Quoting directly from the job description:
GiveWell Updates
Learn MoreGiveWell is launching a new RFI to expand and strengthen our malaria grantmaking in Africa and help our donors make a greater impact. Expressions of interest can be submitted through one of two tracks, the first for malaria chemoprevention and vector control pilot programs and the second for research and evaluation. Submissions are due June 24.
Listen Here: Evaluating and Funding a New Kind of GrantMost of GiveWell’s grantmaking focuses on programs that reduce child mortality, but our growing research capacity has expanded what we’re able to evaluate and fund, including highly cost-effective programs that meaningfully improve quality of life. In a recent podcast episode, GiveWell CEO and co-founder Elie Hassenfeld speaks with Program Officer Meika Ball about our grant to MiracleFeet—an organization that expands access to clubfoot treatment—and her recent site visit to see the program in action in Côte d’Ivoire.
Register HereSave the date for our upcoming webinar, Looking Back to Give Better: How GiveWell Evaluates Its Grantmaking, on Tuesday, June 9. GiveWell co-founder and CEO Elie Hassenfeld will moderate a conversation with Program Directors Alex Cohen and Julie Faller about how we evaluate whether a grant achieved the impact we initially estimated—and how we use those findings to make better impact estimates over time.
Listen Here: Scrutinizing One of Our Longest-Funded ProgramsVitamin A supplementation has one of the strongest evidence bases of any program we’ve evaluated. But when you dig in, the evidence is more complicated than it looks. GiveWell Senior Researcher Stephan Guyenet joins CEO and co-founder Elie Hassenfeld on the GiveWell Conversations podcast to talk about the evidence for vitamin A supplementation, the hard questions that remain, and how our expanded research capacity is helping us go deeper so we can direct funding more effectively.
The Good Food Institute Organisation Updates:
Hot off the press: Our 2026 State of the Industry reports:
Our annual deep dive into the rapidly evolving alternative protein landscape is here! GFI has GFI’s 2026 State of the Industry reports provide a global snapshot of the plant-based, fermentation-derived, and cultivated protein landscape—synthesizing product trends, investment and sales data, new scientific advancements, public investment, and regulatory updates to highlight industry progress.
Although it was a challenging year for the sector, with some start ups closing their doors, regulatory hurdles, and ongoing misinformation around ultraprocessed foods, the overall picture is good. Plant-based food sales grew by 3% in 2025, with Europe remaining the biggest market. And government investment in alternative proteins has quadrupled in the last four years, with 33 countries now investing in the sector (up from 16 in 2020).
Calling for alternative proteins to be included in EU plans
Together with 30+ organisations, GFI Europe has signed a joint letter calling for novel foods, including alternative proteins, to be included in new EU legislation on regulatory sandboxes – spaces where regulators and innovators can learn about new technologies together.
Regulatory sandboxes are already used across the EU to accelerate innovation in an evidence-led way. But currently, alternative proteins are excluded from these sandboxes, missing out on an opportunity to accelerate research and improve regulator confidence in alternative proteins. We’re asking EU policymakers to change this ahead of upcoming negotiations.
China’s alternative protein opportunity
A new report by Systemiq Ltd. models how China’s innovation-to-mass-adoption playbook could fundamentally reimagine global meat production over the coming decades.
According to the report, new food security legislation, state investment in fermentation infrastructure, and the emergence of alternative protein clusters indicate that protein innovation is a central strategic priority for the nation’s policymakers.
By taking a page from the playbook it used to successfully scale its EV and solar industries and applying that strategy to food, China could go from an “engine of global agricultural demand” to a net protein exporter as soon as 2040. Dig into The Good Food Institute APAC’s latest newsletter to learn more.
We’re hiring:
Vice President of Operations—Remote (US) – Apply by 19 May 2026
Investor Engagement Manager—Remote US – Apply by 19 May 2026
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Applications Open for HIP’s Impact Accelerator Program
High Impact Professionals (HIP) is excited to announce that applications are now open for the next round of our Impact Accelerator Program (IAP). The IAP is a free 6-week program designed to equip experienced (mid-career/senior) EA-aligned professionals (not currently working at a high-impact organization) with the knowledge and tools necessary to make a meaningful impact and empower them to start taking actionable steps right away.
To date, the program’s high action focus has proven to be successful:
79 participants out of 359 from our first seven program rounds have already transitioned into high-impact careers, through various paths, including founding new charities, starting founding-to-give companies, and joining high-impact organizations such as GiveWell, Charity Entrepreneurship, ML Alignment & Theory Scholars (MATS), Malaria Consortium, and more.
160 additional participants are taking concrete actions towards a high-impact career, including skilled volunteering roles at high-impact organizations.
Many participants are donating a meaningful percentage of their annual salary to effective charities, with 78 having taken the 🔶 10% Pledge (21) or 🔷 Trial Pledge (57) during a IAP round.
We’re pleased to open up this new program round, which will start the week of July 13.
More information is available below and here.
Please apply by Sunday, June 7.
Apply nowNew for 2026: IAP Entrepreneurship Track
If you’ve been thinking of starting your own high-impact organization, the IAP Entrepreneurship Track offers you the guidance, network, opportunities, and tailored support to help you succeed.
It includes everything in the standard IAP, plus:
A community of fellow aspiring founders, with a facilitator experienced in the high-impact entrepreneurial space
Tailored support and guidance to explore the different types of high-impact entrepreneurship, determine your path, and create your action plan
A curated network of incubators, advisors, communities, and more to help your organization succeed
Fish Welfare Initiative Updates
We are hiring for a Welfare Assessment Manager! (Note Indian applicants only.) This role will be tasked with conducting welfare assessments for farmed fishes in various contexts.
Apply NowHere are also some recent project updates:
Feed fortification studies: We aim to develop an intervention based around our custom-formulated feed, which we hypothesize will improve water quality and nutrition. We are currently conducting two studies to assess this: a lab-based efficacy study (120 fishes) and a farm-based effectiveness study (12 farms). Both are progressing on track. See previous posts.
Remote Sensing of Water Quality: We aimed to develop an intervention to remotely sense (via satellites) or predict water quality. Unfortunately, our in-house modeling did not yield any viable models. We are doing some final wrap-up work, but don’t expect any breakthroughs. We expect to publish a full writeup of our results by the end of June. See previous posts.
Improved Slaughter (Chill Kill): We aim to develop an intervention that replaces air asphyxiation with immersion in an ice bath at slaughter (still causes significant suffering, but less than the alternative). Our main bottlenecks remain a) logistical feasibility, and b) trader and consumer demand. To test the former, we are planning a trial of 1,000 fishes in the coming weeks—our largest yet. See previous posts.
China Work: As part of our efforts to continue understanding and engaging the industry, we recently visited a rainbow trout farm and observed our first harvest event. We are also continuing to research interventions on various priority species, focusing on pond loach, sturgeon, and mandarin fishes.
Our staff Roshan and Gokul sampling fishes recently in the feed fortification pond-based study, in order to assess health and growth—proxies for welfare. Handling fishes in this way does cause them significant stress, but we believe the information is worth the costs (though these are tricky ethical tradeoffs that we sometimes struggle with).
Coefficient Giving is hiring for several roles:
Grantmakers and Senior Generalists, GCR (mostly remote; some location preferences vary, apply by May 17)
Learn more about the 10+ open roles in our forum post.
Research Fellow and Strategy Fellow, Cause Prioritization Team (remote, apply by May 17)
IT Associate/Senior IT Associate (remote, apply by May 28)
Operations Coordinator/Associate (San Francisco or Washington D.C., rolling)
As always, if your referral results in a hire, you’ll receive $5k as a thank you.
New writing:
We published three “Day in the Life” posts: one with Caroline Daniell on Legal, another with Olivia Larsen on Partnerships, and one more profiling three GCR grantmakers: Abbey Chaver, Trevor Levin, and Chris Bakerlee.
Opportunities:
Our RFP for Humane Fish Slaughter Research/Prototypes is open through July 1, 2026. Funding is available for projects that materially improve the welfare of fish at capture and slaughter.
We also have a variety of other funding opportunities available, including fellowships, scholarships, support for group organizers, and funding for career development and transition.
Evidence Action’s Organization Updates:
Full CEO AnnouncementEvidence Action named Danielle Bayer as CEO. She succeeds Kanika Bahl after nine years of transformational leadership reaching 530M+ people across 11 countries. Danielle takes the helm at a moment when the need for proven, scalable health interventions has never been greater.
Evidence Action is hiring for the following positions:
(Senior) Director, Impact Strategy & Innovation will lead the continued evolution of our MLE function, ensuring our systems, structures, and external presence reflect the scale of what we are building. US-based pay range: $155,000 – $185,000.
Manager, AI Strategy & Adoption (1-year time-bound) will be Evidence Action’s go-to on AI strategy. Pay range: $83,900 − 94,000.
Manager, Nutrition (1-year time-bound) will play a key role in helping to strengthen our existing footprint and support the expansion of our nutrition programs. Pay range: $71,400 − 80,000.
Project Manager, MLE Strategy (1-year time-bound) will play a key role in supporting Evidence Action’s Syphilis-Free Start (SFS) program. Pay range: $71,400 − 80,000.
Senior Associate, MLE Strategy will provide end-to-end MLE execution support for 1-2 Francophone country programs within the Syphilis-Free Start portfolio. This role is remote within the US, or hybrid in our Washington, DC office. Pay range: $60,000 − 68,400.
We are hiring two Program Leads for The AI Access Initiative, which is being incubated at Evidence Action. These roles will lead the design and execution of high-quality programs that harness frontier AI for large-scale impact in LMICs. This role is remote, within the US. Please note this role requires significant travel (~20-40%) to partner countries. Pay range: $150,000 - $155,000.
Program Managers for The AI Access Initiative will support the design, research, and execution of high-impact AI programs in LMICs. This role is remote, within the US and may require travel (~10-30%) to partner countries. Pay range: $75,000 - $95,000.
People Operations Lead, AI Access Initiative will have the opportunity to define and scale people operations for our team. This includes building lean systems to hire, onboard, and retain top talent to unlock meaningful upside for people in poverty globally. Pay range: $110,000 - $155,000.
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From Faunalytics:
We Want Your Feedback!
Faunalytics needs your help! We want your feedback to learn how we can improve our work to support the animal advocacy community. We’d be grateful if you could take 5 to 7 minutes to complete our Community Survey this week. As thanks for your time, you could win a $50 gift card or donation to the animal charity of your choice! We greatly value your input as we work to make a bigger difference for animals and advocates.
NEW RESEARCH: The Aspirational Plate
We have released the most comprehensive look at global vegetarianism and veganism to date: a synthesis of 837 nationally representative sources across 58 countries from 2015 to 2025. The findings reveal a telling gap between identity and behavior. In North America, for instance, more than four times as many people claim to be vegetarian as actually follow a vegetarian diet. And 87% of the veganism data we found came from Europe and North America, regions that represent only about 16% of the global population, leaving huge knowledge gaps for advocates working in the Global South.
Updated Global Slaughter Stats
The 2026 Global Animal Slaughter Statistics & Charts are here. This interactive resource, powered by the latest UN FAO data, tracks the slaughter of land and aquatic animals across every global region, with historical records going back to 1961. This year’s edition adds more granular fish slaughter data, including wild capture versus aquaculture breakdowns, and new country-level maps showing total and per capita land animal slaughter. One finding stands out: animal slaughter continues to grow at more than double the rate of the human population.
Estimating Resource Savings & Counterfactual Impact
We are seeking a contractor to help us estimate how much time and money our work saves the animal protection movement — and what would happen in our absence. This project will develop a rigorous, transparent approach to quantifying our indirect impact, including counterfactual analysis and cost-effectiveness framing for Effective Altruism-aligned audiences. We’re looking for someone with strong quantitative and evaluation skills who is comfortable working with uncertainty and translating complex impact into clear, credible estimates.
Fauna Connections 2026
Reminder: Abstract submissions are open for Fauna Connections! We’re looking for academics and researchers from the social and behavioral sciences — or related disciplines — to submit presentation abstracts focused on research synthesis. We’re especially interested in comprehensive analyses like meta-analyses or expert overviews that support animal and vegan advocates in the U.S., China, India, and Brazil. Ready to join us? Register now, and if your organization wants to deepen its involvement, sponsorship opportunities are open too!