Thanks to everyone who voted and/or donated to the Donation Election!

Winners

The winners this year are:

• The EA Animal Welfare Fund ($6693.75)
• The Shrimp Welfare Project ($4259.66)
• The Against Malaria Foundation ($4259.66)

We used a ranked-choice voting to determine the winner. 314 of you voted, and 44 of you donated (thank you!).

Below you can see how many people ranked the three winners 1–10 (based on initial votes).

PS - just in the nick of time, Forum users donated enough to qualify for a debate week of your choice in Q1 next year. I'll ask for your ideas in January.

More info on the Winners

The EA Animal Welfare Fund

Marginal funding post | Donate

In AWF's marginal funding post, the Karolina writes that:

"Our strategy aims to deploy at least $20M to proven and emerging interventions, but we face an $11.6M funding gap for 2026 that will determine whether these opportunities can be leveraged or remain unexplored."

What is that strategy? You can read the whole thing here, but one gloss from the piece is that:

"Our strategy prioritizes large, neglected species of animals, as well as farmed animals in the Global [...]

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(03:50) The Against Malaria Foundation

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