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ANIMAL ADVOCACY CAREERS

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STARTED: Incubation Program 2019

SEED GRANT: $25,000 initially; $25,000 ~1 year later

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Lauren Mee
Co-founder & CEO

MONEY FUNDRAISED TO DATE (Aug 2023): $750,000

TEAM SIZE (Aug 2023): 5

WEBSITE: https://www.animaladvocacycareers.org/

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Animal Advocacy Careers speeds up the end of unnecessary animal suffering by matching people to roles that help animals most.

CURRENT OR PREDICTED IMPACT:

  • Placed 71 people counterfactually into paid roles in impactful animal charities evaluated through ICAPS (see below), and 50+ people to volunteering roles (that they know of) since the beginning of the organization

  • Ran the Fundraising Work Placement program for the first time, and placed 8 candidates into fundraising roles in EAA organizations for 6 months part-time. 5 participants were now offered permanent position in the movement with $270,000 in raised and pledged funds that were unlikely to be raised without them.

  • Created a new metric to help measure the counterfactual and importance adjustment of each role - ICAPs

COST-EFFECTIVENESS:

  • They calculated that they contributed $1,089,825 of value to EAA organizations, just based on counterfactually and importance adjusted placements. 

  • They calculate a further $300,000 has been raised and pledged through their programmes.

  • They have also provided recruitment support and other program support, such as work placements and training to 130+ organizations.

  • https://animalcharityevaluators.org/charity-review/animal-advocacy-careers/

SIGNIFICANT UPDATES:

  • Established three cost-effective programs: the online course, the job board and career advising 

  • Created a series on inclusive hiring to support 34 organisations to improve their hiring process’.

  • Created a new programme designed to improve the inefficiencies of current hiring processes, the top candidate database.

ACHIEVEMENTS: 

  • Their most cost-effective program, the Introduction to Animal Advocacy Online Course, has had 1400+ participants to date, and resulted in 50 base placements (as measured in January 2023)

  • Conducted over 220 free one-to-one advice calls

  • Placed 12 people into EAA roles through their job board 

  • To date, recipient of 4 separate EA animal welfare fund grants, an ACE movement building grant and 2 Open Philanthropy General Support Grants (June, 2020, Feb 2022-2024)

ROOM FOR MORE FUNDING IN 2023: 

  • AAC’s funding gap for 2023 is $123,000

  • Funding received will go towards: 

    • General operating costs for existing programs & movement support: career advising, updating skills profiles, and career content (25% of budget) 

    • Automating and expanding their job board to match candidates to high-impact opportunities (25% of budget)

    • Launching a second version of the Fundraising Work Placement programme (50% of budget)

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