How I Learned to Love Shrimp
How I Learned To Love Shrimp is a podcast showcasing innovative and impactful ways to help animals and build the animal advocacy movement.
We talk to campaigners, lobbyists, scientists, and other experts about a variety of ways to help animals: policy advocacy, pressure campaigns, alternative proteins, grassroots advocacy, and much more. We released episodes every 4 weeks or so.
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Note: James' comments on the podcast don't represent the views of Coefficient Giving or the Farm Animal Welfare team at Coefficient Giving. The views he expresses in the podcast are his personal views.
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)
- 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
With thanks to Tom Felbar (Ambedo Media) for amazing video and audio editing!
Note: My (James') views here are my personal opinions and don't represent those of Coefficient Giving.
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