Thank you for this blog post and your clear explanation of why the suffering of wild animals matters too!
I run the Movement Grants program at Animal Charity Evaluators, and we are looking for more applications from individuals and organisations working to improve the lives of wild animals.
People reading this can let us know about their work by completing an Expression of Interest.
Unfortunately not, we disburse grants from late June and throughout July. This is because we award grants by comparing all of the applications we receive (typically ~200) against each other, rather than assessing applications one by one as they are submitted. This process takes several months to complete.
For the other recommended funds on the GWWC website, will you be evaluating the EA Infrastructure Fund, Founders Pledge Climate Fund, and the Founders Pledge Patient Philanthropy Fund? What will happen to their current recommended status in the meantime?
Also, did you evaluate GW’s Top Charity Fund of All Grants Fund?
Draft amnesty equivalent of a comment (i.e. I haven’t put much thought into it.) I really enjoyed this post and agreed with a lot of what is in there.
For context, I manage a modest sized grant portfolio in the animal welfare space and think a lot about these (that is, my) shortcomings.
As an example, I had a meeting with a grant recipient last week where they explained that one of their programs wasn’t working out as planned. It was refreshing to hear this kind of honesty from a grant recipient because it is so rare.
Re experience outside of grant making, I have tended to volunteer as much as possible, but that is a limited substitute for all that you learn in paid campaigning.
I’d be interested to hear if anyone else has other ideas how to improve the problems Abraham describes here.