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Timeline of Animal Charity Evaluators

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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 || Advocacy || 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 || Advocacy || 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>
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| 2016 || November 12–13 || Event Advocacy || 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 || Review || ACE publishes its first review on a number of charities, including 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 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 launch || 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 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>
| 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 || Policy || 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 || July 13 || Interview || ACE publishes an interview with American {{w|animal rights}} advocate {{w|Lauren Ornelas}}, the founder and executive director of the {{w|Food Empowerment Project}}.<ref>{{cite web |title=ACE INTERVIEWS: LAUREN ORNELAS |url=https://animalcharityevaluators.org/blog/ace-interviews-lauren-ornelas/ |website=animalcharityevaluators.org |accessdate=6 December 2019}}</ref>
| 2017 || November || Review || ACE writes review on AnimaNaturalis International, an organization working to reduce the suffering of animals in Spain, Mexico, Colombia, Venezuela, Ecuador, Argentina, and Chile.<ref>{{cite web |title=ANIMANATURALIS INTERNACIONAL |url=https://animalcharityevaluators.org/charity-review/animanaturalis/ |website=animalcharityevaluators.org |accessdate=7 December 2019}}</ref> It also writes its first review on L214, which works to reduce the suffering of farmed animals in {{w|France}}.<ref>{{cite web |title=L214 |url=https://animalcharityevaluators.org/charity-review/l214-ethique-et-animaux/ |website=animalcharityevaluators.org |accessdate=7 December 2019}}</ref>
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| 2018 || February 23 || {{w|Fundraising}} || 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 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 || March 8 || || ACE launches its recommended charity quiz, which allows users to discover charities that match their interests and values, determined by some of the distinguishing features of ACE's recommended charities.<ref>{{cite web |title=ACE’S NEW CHARITY QUIZ |url=https://animalcharityevaluators.org/blog/aces-new-charity-quiz/ |website=animalcharityevaluators.org |accessdate=6 December 2019}}</ref>
| 2019 || March 26 || Staff || ACE announces Persis Eskander, Eric Herboso, and Allison Smith as the three new members of its Board of Directors.<ref>{{cite web |title=ANNOUNCING ACE’S NEW BOARD MEMBERS |url=https://animalcharityevaluators.org/blog/announcing-aces-new-board-members/ |website=animalcharityevaluators.org |accessdate=5 December 2019}}</ref>
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| 2019 || April 8 || Publication || Kieran Greig at ACE publishes ''ACE Highlight: Farmed Fish Welfare Report'', which generally concludes that the initial effects of changing common slaughter methods from asphyxia and live chilling to properly applied electrical or percussive stunning seem promising.<ref>{{cite web |title=ACE HIGHLIGHT: FARMED FISH WELFARE REPORT |url=https://animalcharityevaluators.org/blog/farmed-fish-welfare-highlights-post/ |website=animalcharityevaluators.org |accessdate=5 December 2019}}</ref>
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| 2019 || April 19 || Grantmaking || ACE announces its Spring 2019 Effective Animal Advocacy Fund Grants, disbursing about US$1.42 million of its US$1.94 million fund to 49 of the 106 received applications.<ref>{{cite web |title=ANNOUNCING OUR SPRING 2019 EFFECTIVE ANIMAL ADVOCACY FUND GRANTS |url=https://animalcharityevaluators.org/blog/announcing-our-spring-2019-eaa-fund-grants/ |website=animalcharityevaluators.org |accessdate=5 December 2019}}</ref>
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| 2019 || May 21 || Publication || Victoria Schindel at ACE publishes report entitled Animal Advocacy in Brazil, concluding that although Brazilians’ attitudes towards animal welfare suggests that it is possible to persuade the Brazilian public that farmed animals deserve moral consideration, achieving an animal welfare reform is likely to be more difficult in Brazil than elsewhere due to the "significant political influence of producers and the lack of understanding of alternative systems of production."<ref>{{cite web |title=ANIMAL ADVOCACY IN BRAZIL |url=https://animalcharityevaluators.org/blog/animal-advocacy-in-brazil/#conclusions |website=animalcharityevaluators.org |accessdate=5 December 2019}}</ref>
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| 2019 || July 30 || Publication || ACE publishes blog by Melissa Guzikowski, entitled ''Animal Advocacy in India''. The report concludes highlighting a number of opportunities for effective animal advocacy in India, including vegetarianism as an already common and accepted diet in Indian culture, and that meat is eaten in relatively small quantities compared to other parts of the world, as this could lower the barrier to dietary change.<ref>{{cite web |title=ANIMAL ADVOCACY IN INDIA |url=https://animalcharityevaluators.org/blog/animal-advocacy-in-india/#conclusion |website=animalcharityevaluators.org |accessdate=5 December 2019}}</ref>
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| 2019 || December 2 || Charity ranking || ACE updates its list of Top Charities and lists four in this category: {{w|Albert Schweitzer Foundation}}, Anima International, {{w|The Good Food Institute}}, and {{w|The Humane League}}. Five charities are listed under the Standout Charities category: Compassion In World Farming USA (Compassion USA), Faunalytics, Federation of Indian Animal Protection Organisations (FIAPO), Sinergia Animal, and Sociedade Vegetariana Brasileira.<ref name="ALL CHARITY REVIEWS">{{cite web |title=ALL CHARITY REVIEWS |url=https://animalcharityevaluators.org/charity-reviews/all-charity-reviews/#filter=.top-charity |website=animalcharityevaluators.org |accessdate=5 December 2019}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=ANNOUNCING OUR 2019 CHARITY RECOMMENDATIONS |url=https://animalcharityevaluators.org/blog/announcing-our-2019-charity-recommendations/ |website=animalcharityevaluators.org |accessdate=6 December 2019}}</ref>
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| 2019 || December || Review || ACE publishes its first review on Animals Now, a charity working to reduce the suffering of farmed animals, mainly in Israel.<ref>{{cite web |title=ANIMALS NOW |url=https://animalcharityevaluators.org/charity-review/animals-now/#overview |website=animalcharityevaluators.org |accessdate=7 December 2019}}</ref>
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