Stien Van Der Ploeg on finding the most effective animal charities
Nov 30, 2023
01:14:17
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Executive Director of Animal Charity Evaluators discusses effective ways to help animals, challenges in charity recommendation process, importance of ACE's work, diverse approaches in animal advocacy, strategic funding in animal welfare, evidence-based approach, legal impact on chickens, transparent charity assessments, and recommendations for expanding perspective and taking action.
Supporting diverse approaches in animal advocacy can lead to long-term systemic change for global animal welfare.
Assessing operational aspects like leadership engagement and financial transparency is critical for organizations aiming to aid animals effectively.
Deep dives
Importance of Supporting Effective Animal Advocacy
It is crucial to acknowledge the challenge of determining the most effective ways to help animals, given the diverse needs of various species and the differing conditions they live in globally. Despite the complexities, every life spared or improved significantly impacts the individual animal, emphasizing the importance of striving to make a difference in animal welfare.
ACE's Unique Evaluation Process and Strategic Focus
Animal Charity Evaluators (ACE) plays a vital role in assessing and recommending impactful animal charities to help animals effectively. Through thorough evaluations and strategic recommendations, ACE aims to support organizations that demonstrate high impact potential across various areas, from improving welfare standards to promoting systemic change in animal advocacy.
Balancing Certainty and Expected Impact in Charity Evaluation
In evaluating animal advocacy organizations, ACE navigates the balance between prioritizing evidence-backed interventions with quantifiable outcomes and those with potentially far-reaching but less measurable impacts. Recognizing the importance of diversity in approaches, ACE looks beyond immediate results to support initiatives that address long-term systemic change and global welfare improvements for animals.
Importance of Organizational Culture in Evaluating Animal Charities
Assessing an organization's operational and management aspects is crucial in evaluating its potential to effectively aid animals. Factors like leadership team engagement, staff morale, and financial transparency significantly impact an organization's performance and long-term impact on the animal advocacy movement.
Evaluation Challenges and Focus on Legal Impact for Chickens
Evaluating the impact of research interventions poses challenges, with a focus on outputs versus outcomes. Legal impact for chickens offers promise in raising public awareness and strategically impacting advocacy work through a clear theory of change. While legal cases may face setbacks, setting legal precedents could have significant long-term implications for animal welfare.
Stien is the executive director of Animal Charity Evaluators, also known as ACE. Stien, wants to help people help animals and ACE tries to do that by finding and promoting the most effective ways to help animals.
In this episode we speak with Stien Van Der Ploeg who is their fairly newly appointed executive director. We talk through the latest release of the recommendations for this year and go into some detail on why certain charities and their interventions were selected. We talk about why their work is so important, the difficulties in the recommendation process and their developing strategy for the upcoming year.
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