Our room for more funding is bigger and more urgent than ever before. Our organizational strategy will be responsive both to the total amount raised and to how many people donate, so smaller donors will have an especially high impact this year.

Good Ventures recently decided to phase out funding for several areas (GV blog, EA Forum post), including wild animal welfare. That's a pretty big shock to our movement. We don’t know what exactly the impact will be, except that it's complicated. The purpose of this post is to share what we know and how we’re thinking about things — primarily to encourage people to donate to Wild Animal Initiative this year, but also for anyone else who might be interested in the state of the wild animal welfare movement more broadly.

Summary

Track record

Our primary goal is to support the growth of a [...]

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Outline:

(00:53) Summary

(03:44) What we’ve accomplished so far

(03:48) Background

(04:12) Strategy

(05:39) Progress

(11:56) Why we need more funding, especially from smaller donors

(12:02) We always have room to grow, but now we need to make sure we don’t shrink.

(13:11) We raised less last year than we did the year before.

(13:59) We’re losing our biggest donor.

(16:37) Another donor could make up the funds, but not the security.

(18:25) Smaller donors have a bigger role to play.

(20:04) What we’ll do with your donation

(24:15) Conclusion

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First published:
August 6th, 2024

Source:
https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/idhTjyNTsyxobijyJ/wild-animal-initiative-has-urgent-need-for-more-funding-and

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