Ask Us Anything: EA Animal Welfare Fund

By Karolina_Sarek @ 2024-12-18T16:30 (+1)

The EA Animal Welfare Fund (AWF) invites you to Ask Us Anything. You can ask questions from now until next Tuesday morning, December 24. We will stop responding at 2:00 PM CET on Tuesday.

About AWF
The AWF’s mission is to alleviate the suffering of non-human animals globally through effective grantmaking. Since its founding in 2017, AWF has distributed $23.3M across 347 grants. This year, we’ve distributed $3.7M across 51 grants. 
You can read about our 2024 year-in-review post and our request for more funding analysis to learn more about our recent work and future goals.

Why Now? 
We believe now is an especially good time for an AMA because:

• AWF entered a new stage of growth, with a new full-time chair. 
• We are seeking additional funding during Giving Season to continue funding promising new opportunities in animal welfare.
• We were recommended by Giving What We Can as one of the two best regrantors in the animal welfare space (alongside ACE’s Movement Building Grants), and by Open Philanthropy Farm Animal Welfare as the best donation opportunity for individual donors interested in animal welfare.
• We currently have an open application for AWF fund managers with a deadline of December 29 and an expression of interest form for a potential future role related to fund development.

We are open to questions from interested donors, applicants, past grantees, people interested in jobs at AWF, and others interested in animal welfare. 

Our team answering questions is:

1. Karolina Sarek, Chair
2. Neil Dullaghan, Fund Manager
3. Zoë Sigle, Fund Manager
    

We look forward to hearing your questions!