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Timeline of Animal Charity Evaluators

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| 2016 || April 14 || Interview || ACE publishes an interview with animal law and policy expert David Wolfson, who states in the interview: "Many aspects of industrial agriculture are truly scandalous and simply wrong by any person’s standards, from popular topic items like pink slime, to hormones and antibiotics, to government subsidies, to hiding the true cost of meat when considering the environmental effects, to the treatment of animals and of farm workers."<ref name="LOOKING BACK AT 2016 PROSPECTIVE GOALS"/>
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| 2016 || May 6 || Interview || ACE publishes an interview with award-winning investigative journalist Will Potter, whose book ''Green Is The New Red: An Insider’s Account of a Social Movement Under Siege'' exposes how non-violent animal rights and environmental protesters came to be classified by the FBI as “eco-terrorists.”<ref>{{cite web |title=ACE INTERVIEWS: WILL POTTER |url=https://animalcharityevaluators.org/blog/ace-interviews-will-potter/ |website=animalcharityevaluators.org |accessdate=21 July 2018}}</ref>
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| 2016 || July 25 || Interview || ACE publishes an interview with Canadian award-winning photojournalist {{w|Jo-Anne McArthur}}, who documented the plight of animals on all seven continents for over a decade, and whose project ''We Animals'' became an internationally celebrated archive.<ref>{{cite web |title=ACE INTERVIEWS: JO-ANNE MCARTHUR |url=https://animalcharityevaluators.org/blog/ace-interviews-jo-anne-mcarthur/ |website=animalcharityevaluators.org |accessdate=21 July 2018}}</ref>
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| 2016 || Fall || || ACE creates an explainer video introducing the concept of {{W|effective altruism }} for animals.<ref name="LOOKING BACK AT 2016 PROSPECTIVE GOALS"/>
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| 2016 || October || || ACE launches its Animal Advocacy Data Repository, which provides a hub for research data compiled from animal advocacy studies, so that researchers and advocates can continue to improve on previous efforts to understand the effectiveness of efforts to help animals.<ref name="LOOKING BACK AT 2016 PROSPECTIVE GOALS"/><ref>{{cite web |title=ANIMAL ADVOCACY DATA REPOSITORY |url=https://animalcharityevaluators.org/blog/animal-advocacy-data-repository/ |website=animalcharityevaluators.org |accessdate=21 July 2018}}</ref>
| 2016 || November 12–13 || Event || ACE, along with the Princeton University Center for Human Values, and the Princeton Animal Welfare Society, organize and co-sponsor the 2016 Effective Animal Advocacy Research Symposium, held at {{w|Princeton University}}. Researchers, professors and graduate students across various disciplines present projects with practical application to the animal advocacy movement, with particular emphasis on the social sciences. Presentations reveal cutting edge research as well as avenues for further research, highlighting areas of greatest research need. The event also provided an overview of effective altruism as it applies to animal advocacy, in addition to providing information on the state of the advocacy movement.<ref>{{cite web |title=2016 SYMPOSIUM ON MULTIDISCIPLINARY RESEARCH IN EFFECTIVE ANIMAL ADVOCACY |url=https://animalcharityevaluators.org/about/events/2016-symposium/ |website=animalcharityevaluators.org |accessdate=20 July 2018}}</ref>
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| 2016 || November || Charity review || ACE publishes its first review on Top Charity-ranked {{w|The Good Food Institute}}, a nonprofit working to transform the animal agriculture industry by promoting the development of competitive alternatives to animal-based meat, dairy, and eggs. ACE recommends GFI for being one of the few charities that intervene by developing and promoting attractive alternatives to animal products.<ref>{{cite web |title=THE GOOD FOOD INSTITUTE |url=https://animalcharityevaluators.org/charity-review/the-good-food-institute/2016-nov/ |website=animalcharityevaluators.org |accessdate=20 July 2018}}</ref> ACE also publish their publishes its first review on Standout Charity-ranked ProVeg International, citing its focus on effectiveness, and ability to work with many different partners.<ref>{{cite web |title=PROVEG INTERNATIONAL |url=https://animalcharityevaluators.org/charity-review/proveg/ |website=animalcharityevaluators.org |accessdate=20 July 2018}}</ref>
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| 2016 || November || Website || ACE launches a completely redesigned website, modernizing it with a new template that improves user experience.<ref name="LOOKING BACK AT 2016 PROSPECTIVE GOALS">{{cite web |title=LOOKING BACK AT 2016 PROSPECTIVE GOALS |url=https://animalcharityevaluators.org/blog/looking-back-at-2016-prospective-goals/ |website=animalcharityevaluators.org |accessdate=21 July 2018}}</ref>
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| 2016 || December 9 || Criticism || Harrison Nathan releases an extensive critique of the current Effective Altruist work on animal welfare, accusing in particular to Animal Charity Evaluators of using pseudoscience, fabricating figures, ignoring scientific literature, using unrealistic metrics which promote co-optation, and suspending its own formal criteria in its evaluation of the Good Food Institute (GFI).<ref name="Re-evaluating Animal Charity Evaluators">{{cite web |title=Re-evaluating Animal Charity Evaluators |url=https://medium.com/@harrisonnathan/re-evaluating-animal-charity-evaluators-c164231406f7 |website=medium.com |accessdate=2 July 2018}}</ref><ref name="The Actual Number is Almost Surely Higher">{{cite web |title=The Actual Number is Almost Surely Higher |url=https://medium.com/@harrisonnathan/the-actual-number-is-almost-surely-higher-92c908f36517 |website=medium.com |accessdate=2 July 2018}}</ref>
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| 2016 || December 21 || Publication || ACE's Jon Bockman publishes a blog post, addressing selected critiques toward ACE's management, including use of old, less rigorous data, usefulness of cost-effectiveness calculations, lack of diversity in ACE's recommendations, and diverting resources from other groups.<ref>{{cite web |title=RESPONSES TO COMMON CRITIQUES |url=https://animalcharityevaluators.org/blog/responses-to-common-critiques/ |website=animalcharityevaluators.org |accessdate=3 August 2018}}</ref>
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| 2016 || || || ACE launches the privately-funded Animal Advocacy Research Fund, with the purpose of supporting research that contributes to an understanding of effective animal advocacy.<ref>{{cite web |title=Animal Advocacy Research Fund |url=https://researchfund.animalcharityevaluators.org/ |website=researchfund.animalcharityevaluators.org |accessdate=21 July 2018}}</ref>
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| 2016 || || Interview || ACE publishes an interview with Brad Goldberg, who organized in 2001 the Animal Welfare Trust (AWT) as a private operating foundation dedicated to animal protection and animal rights issues. In the interview, Goldberg defines Animal Studies ideally as an interdisciplinary academic program that includes the relationship with food, law, public policy, the arts, ethics, etc., and also states that animal issues touch on virtually every aspect of human life, and the moral status of animals should be of great universal concern.<ref>{{cite web |title=INTERVIEW WITH BRAD GOLDBERG |url=https://animalcharityevaluators.org/advocacy-interventions/advocacy-advice/learn-from-professionals/brad-goldberg/ |website=animalcharityevaluators.org |accessdate=21 July 2018}}</ref>
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| 2016 || Year-round || Financial || ACE moves US$3,574,048 throughout the year (counting donations through their site its website as well as donations made elsewhere that donors reported as influenced by ACE).<ref name="We're researchers from Animal Charity Evaluators">{{cite web |title=We're researchers from Animal Charity Evaluators (ACE). We just released our 2017 charity recommendations. Ask us anything! |url=https://www.reddit.com/r/vegan/comments/7gn7mt/were_researchers_from_animal_charity_evaluators/ |website=reddit.com |accessdate=20 July 2018}}</ref>
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| 2017 || June 9 || Donation || ACE announces a grant awarded by the Open Philanthropy Project, totalling US$500,000, with its disbursement to be spread over a two-year period.<ref>{{cite web |title=ON RECEIVING A GRANT FROM THE OPEN PHILANTHROPY PROJECT |url=https://animalcharityevaluators.org/blog/on-receiving-a-grant-from-the-open-philanthropy-project/ |website=animalcharityevaluators.org |accessdate=3 August 2018}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Animal Charity Evaluators — General Support |url=https://www.openphilanthropy.org/focus/us-policy/farm-animal-welfare/animal-charity-evaluators-general-support |website=openphilanthropy.org |accessdate=17 August 2018}}</ref>
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| 2017 || June 9 || || ACE announces setting a donation cap of US$1 million, meaning that every penny over that amount in unrestricted donations raised to support ACE’s work in the year would be allocated to ACE's Recommended Charities Fund and regranted to its recommended charities.<ref>{{cite web |title=ACE FUNDRAISING RESTRICTIONS |url=https://animalcharityevaluators.org/blog/ace-fundraising-restrictions/ |website=animalcharityevaluators.org |accessdate=3 August 2018}}</ref>
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| 2017 || September 29–October 1 || Event || ACE holds the 2017 Research Workshop on Effective Animal Advocacy at {{w|Claremont Graduate University}}, in {{w|California}}. The event is intended to complement our its 2016 Symposium on Multidisciplinary Research in Effective Animal Advocacy, held at Princeton University last fall. 36 academics and advocates attend the event, working collaboratively in small groups to develop ideas for empirical research aimed at advancing the understanding of effective animal advocacy.<ref>{{cite web |title=2017 RESEARCH WORKSHOP ON EFFECTIVE ANIMAL ADVOCACY |url=https://animalcharityevaluators.org/about/events/2017-research-workshop/ |website=animalcharityevaluators.org |accessdate=20 July 2018}}</ref>
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| 2017 || November 27 || Recognition || ACE updates its charity recommendations, and announces that its newest Top Charities are Animal Equality, The Good Food Institute, and The Humane League, with GFI and THL retaining their top positions from the previous year.<ref>{{cite web |title=UPDATED CHARITY RECOMMENDATIONS: DECEMBER 2017 |url=https://animalcharityevaluators.org/blog/updated-charity-recommendations-december-2017/ |website=animalcharityevaluators.org |accessdate=19 July 2018}}</ref>
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| 2018 || February 23 || || ACE announces a new fundraising cap for unrestricted donations at US$1.25 million, a 25% increase from its 2017 cap. It includes the amount thought it ACE believes could be raised and spent efficiently as well as some additional funds to fill out a full year of reserves. Some additions made to the 2018 budget include recruiting people, providing full-year salaries, increasing salaries, increasing the size of grants, adding a number of software services, and hiring contractors during the busiest time of the year.<ref>{{cite web |title=ACE’S ROOM FOR MORE FUNDING IN 2018 |url=https://animalcharityevaluators.org/blog/aces-room-for-more-funding-in-2018/ |website=animalcharityevaluators.org |accessdate=3 August 2018}}</ref>
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| 2018 || July 31 || Donation || Under the influence of Lewis Bollard, Effective Altruism Funds (EAFunds) Funds donates US$500,000 to ACE.<ref name="Animal Charity Evaluators donations received">{{cite web |title=Animal Charity Evaluators donations received |url=https://donations.vipulnaik.com/donee.php?donee=Animal%20Charity%20Evaluators |website=donations.vipulnaik.com |accessdate=17 August 2018}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Payout Report: Animal Welfare Fund |url=https://app.effectivealtruism.org/funds/animal-welfare/payouts/4Bianu30diUQeWGU2Oiq8E |website=app.effectivealtruism.org |accessdate=17 August 2018}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Effective Altruism Funds donations made to Animal Charity Evaluators |url=https://donations.vipulnaik.com/donorDonee.php?donor=Effective+Altruism+Funds&donee=Animal+Charity+Evaluators |website=donations.vipulnaik.com |accessdate=17 August 2018}}</ref>
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| 2018 || September 7 || Criticism || A blog post criticizing ACE's research is published at <code>effective-altruism.com</code>, stating that some of ACE’s older research is of low quality. The post also emphasizes that ACE’s research on the impact of corporate campaigns is flawed, and consequently ACE’s research does not provide much reason to believe that its recommended charities actually improve animal welfare.<ref>{{cite web |title=Concerns with ACE research |url=http://effective-altruism.com/ea/1so/concerns_with_ace_research/ |website=effective-altruism.com |accessdate=11 September 2018}}</ref> On the same date, ACE's new director of research publishes a post as a response, explaining ACE's position on its older intervention research, clarifying several points, and outlining some of ACE's research priorities for the coming year.<ref>{{cite web |title=ACE's Response to John Halstead |url=http://effective-altruism.com/ea/1sq/response_to_john_halstead/ |website=effective-altruism.com |accessdate=11 September 2018}}</ref>

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