Executive summary: Fish Welfare Initiative (FWI) had a challenging 2023, falling short of key goals like helping 1.5 million additional fishes due to limitations in their interventions and organizational instability from strategic pivots. However, FWI believes they laid important foundations, like revamping their R&D department and research plans, that position them for greater impact in 2024.
Key points:
FWI estimated improving the lives of 450,000 fishes in 2023, less than a third of their 1.5 million goal. This was due to slowing scaling and being stricter in estimating impact.
FWI continued facing serious challenges identifying promising welfare interventions from on-farm tests, failing to validate their Version 2 Standards.
FWI made two strategic pivots in 2023 that caused organizational instability and stress at times. However, the new programmatic and departmental structures seem more likely to last.
Staff culture and retention was more challenging in 2023. FWI is now investing more in culture, management training, and communications.
In 2023, FWI grew to 20 FTE staff and a $730K budget. 30% turnover was higher than ideal. Hiring remained an operational bottleneck.
FWI believes their revamped R&D department with new leadership and plans positions them for greater impact in 2024.
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Executive summary: Fish Welfare Initiative (FWI) had a challenging 2023, falling short of key goals like helping 1.5 million additional fishes due to limitations in their interventions and organizational instability from strategic pivots. However, FWI believes they laid important foundations, like revamping their R&D department and research plans, that position them for greater impact in 2024.
Key points:
FWI estimated improving the lives of 450,000 fishes in 2023, less than a third of their 1.5 million goal. This was due to slowing scaling and being stricter in estimating impact.
FWI continued facing serious challenges identifying promising welfare interventions from on-farm tests, failing to validate their Version 2 Standards.
FWI made two strategic pivots in 2023 that caused organizational instability and stress at times. However, the new programmatic and departmental structures seem more likely to last.
Staff culture and retention was more challenging in 2023. FWI is now investing more in culture, management training, and communications.
In 2023, FWI grew to 20 FTE staff and a $730K budget. 30% turnover was higher than ideal. Hiring remained an operational bottleneck.
FWI believes their revamped R&D department with new leadership and plans positions them for greater impact in 2024.
This comment was auto-generated by the EA Forum Team. Feel free to point out issues with this summary by replying to the comment, and contact us if you have feedback.