From Animal Charity Evaluators
 

Opportunities: 
 

Movement Grants: Applications open until October 18 (5 pm, PT)

Our latest round of Movement Grants awarded roughly $1 million to 21 different projects. To stay responsive to emerging needs, we’re shifting our focus to neglected gaps in the movement. That’s why, for this round, we’re specifically seeking applications from organizations that meet at least one of the following criteria: 

1. they are under three years old
2. they have a budget below $500,000
3. they incubate other groups, or
4. they are applying specifically for funding for monitoring, evaluation, and learning (MEL) using an external consultant

Requests: 

How would you describe ACE?

We’re working on explaining our work more clearly. If you have a moment, we’d appreciate you sharing how you’d describe ACE in your own words in this short survey.

Where are the biggest gaps?

More funding is arriving in animal advocacy, and it’s becoming more concentrated. We’re considering how ACE’s work should evolve to fill emerging gaps. If you have thoughts on where the biggest gaps are, we’d welcome them. You can reach us at [email protected].

Updates:

New: ACE Research Database

This month we launched the ACE Research Database, which brings together thousands of studies, reviews, reports, and other research relevant to farmed and wild animal advocacy. Created for researchers, advocates, and funders, the Database now has frequent updates, refined filters, and semantic search.

Where our evaluations stand

We’ve completed in-depth evaluations for 2026, are currently writing charity reviews, and are preparing to announce and promote our Recommended Charities during the Giving Season.

High Impact Professionals is hiring for four roles (apply by November 1)

High Impact Professionals (HIP) helps experienced professionals move into high-impact careers. We've supported 140+ career changes to high-impact roles through HIP, and over the next two years we plan to grow from 5 to around 14 people so we can support hundreds of career transitions a year. These four roles are how we get there. All are fully remote, ideally full-time with part-time considered for outstanding applicants, and applications close on Sunday, November 1.

• Chief of Staff / Managing Director: Help scale HIP's team and impact, delivering our top priorities as Chief of Staff or running HIP internally as Managing Director. Chief of Staff $60,000 to $80,000 USD (up to $90,000 for outstanding candidates); Managing Director up to $140,000 USD | Remote, 2+ hours' overlap with UK hours
• Director of Operations: Build the systems and processes that enable HIP's growth, starting by setting us up as an independent nonprofit. $80,000 to $100,000 USD (up to $120,000 for outstanding candidates) | Remote, 2+ hours' overlap with UK hours
• Program Launch Lead / Director: Create new routes into high-impact work. The first could be a self-guided program open to anyone. Lead $60,000 to $80,000 USD (up to $90,000 for outstanding candidates); Director $80,000 to $100,000 USD (up to $120,000) | Remote, 2+ hours' overlap with central European hours
• Recruitment Manager: Choose who joins our Impact Accelerator Program, the step that currently limits how many people we can help. $60,000 to $80,000 USD (up to $90,000 for outstanding candidates) | Remote, 2+ hours' overlap with central European hours

Questions about the roles or how we hire? Join one of our applicant Q&A webinars on Tuesday, October 27:

• 9:00 UTC (2:30 pm India time): Register
• 16:00 UTC (12:00 pm US East Coast): Register

You can also email [email protected].

Find out more and apply by November 1. If you know someone who would be a great fit, we'd be grateful if you passed this on.

Faunalytics Updates:

New Study: The Effects Of Digital Advocacy

Can a single reel or article change how people think about farmed animals? Our latest original study put digital advocacy to the test, following participants for three months after they saw one piece of content. The videos and articles moved people emotionally, but they didn’t shift diets, attitudes, or policy support. Some tactics even backfired with audiences who are usually sympathetic to animals. Read the full report to see what this means for your next campaign.

New Video: Fur Trade In China

China is still the world’s largest fur producer, but its industry is shrinking fast. In this video, we break down findings from ACTAsia showing that fur production in China fell by 54% from 2022 to 2023, and about 41% of fur businesses closed in a single year. Watch to learn what’s driving the decline, from growing global bans to falling consumer trust, and how advocates can help secure a future without fur.

Digital Resource Manager Job Opening

Faunalytics is hiring a Digital Resource Manager to strengthen our website, Research Library, and AI tools, including the Lens. You’ll manage our WordPress infrastructure, build automations and integrations, and help shape our AI strategy. This full-time, remote role is open to candidates in the U.S. and Canada, with a salary of approximately $68,900 USD. Apply by Sunday, October 25, and please share this posting with anyone who’d be a great fit!

Welcoming New Board Members

We’re thrilled to welcome Seth Ariel Green and Zoe Lu to the Faunalytics Board of Directors.

Seth is a research scientist at Stanford University’s Humane and Sustainable Food Lab, where he studies how people respond to appeals to eat less meat and the challenges of measuring that change. He also writes about the state of the field at Regression To The Meat. Outside of work, Seth hiked the entire Appalachian Trail in 2021 and now calls Brooklyn home.

Zoe is the Managing Director at Sentient Futures and a leading voice on how AI will shape the future for animals. She advises the Centre for Animal-Aligned AI and brings a background in computer science and engineering from MIT, along with years of experience building technical tools in quantitative trading. When she’s not working, you’ll find Zoe outdoors, powerlifting, or reading (and she’s happy to tell you about the time she lived in a forest).

We’re grateful to have their expertise as we continue helping advocates make informed, effective choices for animals.

The Good Food Institute Organisation Updates:
 

Last month, the UN declared that there is no realistic pathway left to prevent global warming from exceeding the Paris Agreement’s 1.5ºC threshold. This summer’s heatwaves cost the EU 12 million tonnes of crops, and now we’re being warned that a stronger El Niño could have repercussions for global food security. It’s a stark reminder of why we do this work, and why your support of GFI matters now more than ever. 

Here are a few things we’re doing this month to accelerate the transition towards a more sustainable and resilient food system:

Investing in student research through the Alt Protein Project

GFI's university programme, the Alt Protein Project, has now directly facilitated over 100 jobs, more than a dozen alternative protein-focused courses, and many more student research projects. This year, we piloted our first academic challenge, a hackathon for alt protein research, where student teams take on a specific bottleneck the sector needs to solve. 

Thanks our donors, GFI supported each project with $2,000 to $5,000. This early-stage funding draws students into the field and encourages more of the high-impact research needed for alternative proteins to reach their potential. You can hear five of the final teams present their work in our latest webinar here.
 

Connecting UK startup with the funding they need

The UK is one of the most supportive governments in Europe for alternative proteins. It set up Europe’s first regulatory sandbox for cultivated meat, and now its innovation agency has announced two new funding calls for alternative proteins, worth £13.5 million. GFI Europe has responded by flagging these calls to the businesses we work with, aiming to direct funding towards high-impact work most likely to move the sector forward. 

GFI Europe has previous success here. Adamo Foods, a UK startup, went on to win a €10 million Horizon Europe grant after GFI Europe informed them of the grant and encouraged them to apply. In a tough climate where private investment is declining, connecting companies to public funding is even more important.
 

Brazil’s agricultural research body recommends diversifying production to include plant-based proteins

Good news from Brazil: Embrapa, the country’s national agricultural research corporation, published its strategic agenda for the future of Brazilian agriculture, making the case for diversifying food sources with plant-based proteins. Brazil is one of the world’s biggest agricultural producers and the largest exporter of beef, so this recommendation from such an influential agricultural body is a huge win. 

GFI Brazil has engaged with Embrapa on alternative proteins for years, through research funding, workshops, technical visits, and broader engagement. Since 2019, GFI has funded 11 alternative protein research projects there, totalling nearly US$1 million. It’s fantastic to see this translating into national recommendations for the sector.

We’re hiring:

Find career opportunities with GFI’s global affiliates here.

Thank you!

Fish Welfare Initiative Updates

Fish Welfare Initiative (FWI) recently published an open call for proposals aimed to improve farmed fish welfare in India. Academics, NGOs, industry, and other relevant individuals/groups both in India and abroad are invited to submit.

FWI staff taking water quality measurements at a farm in Andhra Pradesh, India.

GiveWell Updates

• To direct substantially more funding to the most cost-effective opportunities we can find to help people, GiveWell’s research is expanding in two directions at once: going broader, to cover more areas of global health and development, and going deeper, to improve the inputs that inform our decision-making. 
  
  Our latest podcast episode offers a behind-the-scenes look at how this expansion is playing out on GiveWell’s research team, as three researchers each describe a project they’ve taken on: reassessing how to prevent childhood pneumonia deaths, building a better estimate of how many children die of malaria, and developing an AI tool to check our work for errors.
   

• During UN General Assembly week, GiveWell co-founder and CEO Elie Hassenfeld joined Devex Impact House for a conversation about how to direct more funding toward opportunities to save and improve lives. 
  
  Elie discussed how GiveWell decides which programs to fund, how we’re preparing for a potential increase in philanthropic giving, and why truth-seeking and transparency remain central to our approach.
   

• GiveWell, with co-funding from Coefficient Giving, recently announced our largest grant to date: $276 million to the Against Malaria Foundation (AMF) to support the procurement and distribution of 92 million nets in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) from 2027 through 2029. We estimate that the nets, 46 million of which we think would not otherwise be distributed, will avert roughly 67,000 deaths. 
  
  Our blog post with interactive data visualizations lets you explore the research behind the grant. In a recent podcast episode, GiveWell co-founder and CEO Elie Hassenfeld and Senior Program Officer Alex Bowles, who led the investigation, discuss the questions the team set out to answer during the grant investigation and what changes when GiveWell funds a program at this scale.
   

• GiveWell’s Cross-Cutting research subteam works to improve our grantmaking by investigating program impacts, resolving major uncertainties, and strengthening our data collection and analysis. 
  
  In our recent podcast episode, GiveWell co-founder and CEO Elie Hassenfeld speaks with Program Director Alex Cohen, who leads the Cross-Cutting subteam, about how better data can improve our decision-making, how we’re working to gather stronger evidence, and how we’ve tested AI as a tool to increase our research capacity and quality.
   

Five high-impact roles are now open with the AI Whistleblower Initiative (AIWI) and Lead Exposure Elimination Project (LEEP), spanning AI safety and governance, research, policy, people operations, and recruitment:

AI Whistleblower Initiative (AIWI)

Head of Growth & Education Delivery / Growth & Education Delivery Associate: Help frontier AI insiders access trusted guidance and support when raising high-stakes concerns. Seeking strong project/stakeholder management, growth, communication, and entrepreneurial execution skills. San Francisco Bay Area or London | Apply by Oct 25

AI Whistleblowing Research Manager: Turn critical research questions into practical guidance for frontier AI insiders. Seeking strong research judgment, project management, and interest in AI safety, policy, law, psychology, or related areas. San Francisco Bay Area or London | Apply by Nov 1

AI Whistleblowing Policy Lead: Strengthen legal protections and disclosure channels for AI whistleblowers in the U.S. Seeking strong AI or whistleblowing policy/advocacy experience, judgment, communication, and networking skills. Washington, DC | Apply by Nov 8

Lead Exposure Elimination Project (LEEP):

Operations Manager (People): Help run the people operations supporting LEEP’s rapidly growing global team. Seeking strong organization, judgment, problem-solving, and systems thinking; prior HR/People experience is desirable but not required. Remote, UTC to UTC+3 | Apply by Nov 1

Recruitment Associate: Help LEEP attract and hire outstanding talent for its growing global team. Seeking strong organization, communication, judgment, and an interest in proactive candidate sourcing. Remote, UTC to UTC+3 | Apply by Nov 1

Learn more and apply:

AIWI roles: https://join.com/companies/aiwiorg

LEEP roles: https://leadelimination.org/jobs/