How I Learned to Love Shrimp

Stien Van Der Ploeg on finding the most effective animal charities


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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.

Relevant links to things mentioned throughout the show:

  • Recommended charity fund and matching offer (to Dec 6th)
    • ACE 2023 recommendations
    • ACE Team emails 
  • Menu of interventions
    • Intervention scores spreadsheet
    • Menu of outcomes
  • Faunalytics review
  • Legal Impact for Chickens review
  • GWWC evaluation
  • ACE Strategy Doc
  • Other organisations discussed in the episode
    • Rethink Priorities
    • Scarlet Spark
    • Animal Legal Defense Fund
    • The Mission Motor
    • [Amy’s organisation] User-Friendly: Messaging Workshop
  • Lead Together, by Tania Luna
  • Podcast: Knowing Animals
    • Knowing Animals: Episode 210: Saving Animals (and Ourselves) with Jeff Sebo (libsyn.com)
    • Knowing Animals: Episode 168: Speaking with animals with Eva Meijer (libsyn.com)

With thanks to Tom Felbar (Ambedo Media) for amazing video and audio editing!

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