“Marginal funding for strategic priority research for Animal Advocacy organisations” by Animal Ask

As part of Marginal funding week, we are releasing our 2025 Evaluation: A retrospective after 5 years and sharing other ongoing projects and those we are currently scoping for the first half of 2026. There is a great deal of overlap between this post and our review, engagement on our evaluation would be most useful on the other post. 1. Overview Animal Ask is a research organisation that offers consultation and dedicated research to stakeholders in the animal advocacy movement to help those organisations make strategic decisions to bring about the highest possible impact for animals. Animal Ask also offers other custom research, such as written documents to help animal advocacy organisations communicate as effectively as possible with policymakers. Since being launched in 2020, Animal Ask has completed 57 major research projects around the world, covering all major exploited animal groups (insects, shrimp, fish, chickens, pigs, and ruminants). Early stage indicators of the impact of these projects' work has shown promising signs, but the data is currently inconclusive. Since its launch in 2020, Animal Ask's team of 3–5 staff members has: Completed 57 major research projects, with the majority of this research published on the organization's website [...] ---Outline:(00:34) 1. Overview(02:33) 2. Animal Asks theory of change(05:29) 3. Summary of our 5 Year Review(11:11) 4. Upcoming projects and Room for more funding --- First published: November 18th, 2025 Source: https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/8o2oFQthizhxBAzgw/marginal-funding-for-strategic-priority-research-for-animal --- Narrated by TYPE III AUDIO. ---Images from the article:Apple Podcasts and Spotify do not show images in the episode description. Try Pocket Casts, or another podcast app.