Effective animal welfare giving applies rigorous analysis to identify the organizations and interventions that produce the greatest welfare improvement per dollar donated, multiplying the impact of charitable giving.
The welfare of billions of animals depends not only on what advocates care about but on how effectively they direct their attention and resources. Applying cost-effectiveness analysis to animal welfare reveals that some interventions produce orders of magnitude more welfare improvement per dollar than others. Directing giving toward evidence-based organizations working on neglected species and cause areas — particularly farmed fish, invertebrates, and wild animal welfare — maximizes the real-world impact of resources committed to improving animal lives. Learning from effective altruism frameworks and trusting evidence over emotion helps donors do far more good.