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For the tenth year in a row, Animal Charity Evaluators names The Humane League a Recommended Charity.
If you’re reading this, you’re likely passionate about ending the abuse of animals. But with an issue so vast and so complicated—with billions of animals suffering on factory farms each year—it’s hard to know where to start.
Where’s the best place to volunteer your time or make a donation? Which animals need the most help? Where will your advocacy go the farthest for the animals?
Since 2012, Animal Charity Evaluators (ACE) has helped people help animals by finding, analysing, and recommending the most effective animal advocacy groups around the world. Relying on empirical evidence and logical reasoning, ACE determines the best animal charities to donate to, work at, and volunteer with in order to improve the lives of farmed animals and wild animals.
Ultimately, ACE's mission is to "find and promote the most effective ways to help animals" — and these two cause areas represent the most promising avenues for helping animals as much as possible.
We're honoured to announce that Animal Charity Evaluators has recognised The Humane League as a Recommended Charity for 2023.
Not only that - we are the only organisation to have earned this distinction every year that it's been awarded, demonstrating our impact for animals time and time again.
We're extremely grateful to our community of animal advocates, who fuel this work — and our movement — to end the abuse of animals raised for food. None of this would be possible without our supporters, whose passion and dedication are changing the world for animals.
What is Animal Charity Evaluators?
A charity evaluator, ACE offers advice on the most effective ways to help animals and prevent the largest amount of suffering. As an effective altruist organisation, ACE seeks to make the world a better place using evidence and reasoning. Their team conducts extensive research to discover and evaluate the most impactful animal charities in the nation.
To date, ACE has reviewed over 350 groups and influenced donors to give over $26 million in gifts to the charities ACE recommends most highly.
During every rating period, ACE identifies several Recommended Charities to recognise — and celebrate — the effectiveness of their strategies and solutions. ACE evaluates these advocacy groups through multiple rounds of review and ultimately chooses the Recommended Charities based on the efficiency of their programs, the cost-effectiveness of their victories, their track record of achievement, their healthy work culture, their long-term strategy, and their adaptability to keep doing what's working and stop doing what's not.
In short, ACE recognises the groups that make the greatest amount of change for the most animals in the most efficient way possible.
Why The Humane League is a recommended animal welfare charity
At The Humane League, we're working relentlessly to end the abuse of animals raised for food. Effectiveness is one of our core values, because we're committed to having the most significant impact we can on the lives of animals trapped in factory farms and slaughterhouses.
This year alone, through the collective efforts of our community of animal advocates, we saw incredible change take shape:
- Our legal challenge against the Government for allowing the use of cruelly-bred Frankenchickens went ahead in the High Court. Just 5% of judicial reviews reach this stage. While we didn't win the case, we're appealing and will face the Government in court again next year.
- The Open Wing Alliance, a global coalition of animal protection groups led by The Humane League, secured a win for hens around the world as Jollibee committed to going cage-free following our collaborative campaign.
- According to a report from the Open Wing Alliance, the vast majority of companies are following through on ending their use of cages.
- And its not just cages. Marks and Spencer was the first supermarket to sign onto the Better Chicken Commitment (BCC), and has now fulfilled their commitment four years earlier than first planned!
- Jointly with the OWA, we've been campaigning against Lidl to persuade them to sign up to the BCC. Across Europe there's been over 70 in-person protests, 325,000 petition signatures, and 650 media articles.
- We gained coverage for our campaigns in major UK news outlets, including The Finanical Times, The Guardian, Yahoo Life, BBC News, Plant Based News, the Daily Record, and radio stations BBC 5 Live and TalkSport.
What you can do
When we come together, we can disrupt "business as usual" in the food industry and change the lives of millions of innocent animals. Will you join us?
