“Why We Should Fund Animal Charities” by Animal Charity Evaluators, Max Taylor, Holly Baines

Animal Charity Evaluators (ACE) runs two main programs. Our Charity Evaluations program evaluates animal advocacy organizations to identify those that can help animals the most with additional donations. Our Movement Grants program provides funding to promising projects to scale up the animal advocacy movement. We raise funds for those projects and the charities we recommend. Through this work (including here on the Forum), we’ve encountered a few recurring questions and concerns around prioritizing animal advocacy among some prospective donors and the EA community. This post aims to address some of these by highlighting our main reasons for why donors and grantmakers should consider funding animal advocacy charities. Feedback is very welcome! 1. Animal Suffering Is Large In Scale and Severity Some people believe that even if most farmed animals are sentient, their capacity to suffer or experience pleasure is trivial compared to humans. Measuring suffering is difficult in all [...] ---Outline:(00:55) 1. Animal Suffering Is Large In Scale and Severity(03:29) 2. Farmed Animal Suffering Is Projected To Increase(04:11) 3. Animal Welfare Gets Very Little Funding(05:57) 4. Animal Welfare Has Many Promising Funding Opportunities(09:13) 5. Farmed Animal Welfare Has Positive Flow-Through Effects(11:28) Evaluating Animal Charities and Their Effectiveness(13:20) Recommended Charity Fund--- First published: December 20th, 2024 Source: https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/obzEBZKtZcx2Av9jW/why-we-should-fund-animal-charities --- Narrated by TYPE III AUDIO.