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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 (Jan 2023): $595,062

TEAM SIZE (January 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 63 people counterfactually into paid roles in impactful animal charities evaluated through ICAPS (see below), and 34+ 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. They will calculate the impact in 2023, and to date the participants have raised $95,000 for 3 out of the 8 organizations surveyed

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

COST-EFFECTIVENESS:

  • They calculated that they contributed $492,731 of value to EAA organizations, just based on counterfactually and importance adjusted placements. 

  • They have also provided recruitment support and other program support, such as work placements and training to 85 organizations, and are attempting to quantify this as a dollar amount in 2023.

SIGNIFICANT UPDATES:

  • Established three cost-effective programs: the online course, the job board and careers advice

  • Hired a new researcher and M&E manager

  • Hired a new Head of Programs

  • Developing a new innovative recruiting program, aimed at solving inefficiencies in EAA hiring and placing the best candidates into the most impactful roles

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 150 free one-to-one advice calls

  • Placed 9 people into EAA roles through their job board 

  • To date, recipient of 3 separate EA animal welfare fund grants, an ACE movement building grant and an Open Philanthropy General Support Grant (June, 2020)

ROOM FOR MORE FUNDING IN 2023: 

  • $450,000

  • Funding received will go towards: 

    • General operating costs for existing programs & movement support: career advising, research into the bottlenecks of the movement, updating skills profiles, and career advising content (50% of budget)

    • Improving and scaling their most cost-effective program: hiring a new program manager to adapt and improve their online course, and automating and expanding their job board to match candidates to high-impact opportunities (25% of budget)

    • Improving the talent pipeline & inefficiencies in current hiring practices: the talent hub, work placements and possible other programs (25% of budget)

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