EA Forum Podcast (Curated & popular) “Charity Entrepreneurship is bottlenecked by a lack of great animal founders” by Ben Williamson, Amalie Farestvedt 🔸
TL;DR - AIM's applicants skew towards global health & development. We’ve recommended four new animal welfare charities, have the capacity to launch all four, but expect to struggle to find the talent to do so. If you’ve considered moving into animal welfare work, applying to Charity Entrepreneurship to launch a new charity in the space could be of huge counterfactual value.
Part 1: Why you should launch an animal welfare charity
Our existing animal charities have had a lot of impact—improving the lives of over 1 billion animals worldwide. - from Shrimp Welfare Project securing corporate commitments globally and featuring on the Daily Show, to FarmKind's recent success coordinating a $2 million dollar fundraiser for the animal movement on the Dwarkshesh podcast, not to mention the progress of the 40 person army at the Fish Welfare Initiative, Scale Welfare's direct hand-on work at fish farms, and Animal Policy [...]
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Outline:
(00:37) Part 1: Why you should launch an animal welfare charity
(02:07) A few notes on counterfactual founder value
(05:57) Part 2 - The Charity Entrepreneurship Program & Our Latest Animal Welfare Ideas
(06:04) What is the Charity Entrepreneurship Incubation Program?
(06:47) Our recommended animal welfare ideas for 2026
(07:10) 1. Driving supermarket commitments to shift diets away from meat
(07:58) 2. Securing scale-up funding for the alternative protein industry
(08:51) 3. Cage-free farming in the Middle East
(09:30) 4. Preventing painful injuries in laying hens
(10:02) Applications close on October 5th: Apply here.
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First published:
September 29th, 2025
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Narrated by TYPE III AUDIO.