ANIMAL ADVOCACY CAREERS

STARTED: Incubation Program 2019
SEED GRANT: $25,000 initially; $25,000 ~1 year later

Lauren Mee
Co-founder & CEO
MONEY FUNDRAISED TO DATE (Jan 2023): $595,062
TEAM SIZE (January 2023): 5
Animal Advocacy Careers speeds up the end of unnecessary animal suffering by matching people to roles that help animals most.
CURRENT OR PREDICTED IMPACT:
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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
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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
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Created a new metric to help measure the counterfactual and importance adjustment of each role - ICAPs
COST-EFFECTIVENESS:
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They calculated that they contributed $492,731 of value to EAA organizations, just based on counterfactually and importance adjusted placements.
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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:
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Established three cost-effective programs: the online course, the job board and careers advice
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Hired a new researcher and M&E manager
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Hired a new Head of Programs
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Developing a new innovative recruiting program, aimed at solving inefficiencies in EAA hiring and placing the best candidates into the most impactful roles
ACHIEVEMENTS:
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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)
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Conducted over 150 free one-to-one advice calls
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Placed 9 people into EAA roles through their job board
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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)
IMPORTANT PUBLICATIONS:
ROOM FOR MORE FUNDING IN 2023:
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$450,000
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Funding received will go towards:
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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)
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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)
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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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