Stien is the executive director of Animal Charity Evaluators, also known as ACE. Stien, wants to help people help animals and ACE tries to do that by finding and promoting the most effective ways to help animals. In this episode we speak with Stien Van Der Ploeg who is their fairly newly appointed executive director. We talk through the latest release of the recommendations for this year and go into some detail on why certain charities and their interventions were selected. We talk about why their work is so important, the difficulties in the recommendation process and their developing strategy for the upcoming year. Relevant links to things mentioned throughout the show: Recommended charity fund and matching offer (to Dec 6th)ACE 2023 recommendationsACE Team emails Menu of interventionsIntervention scores spreadsheetMenu of outcomesFaunalytics reviewLegal Impact for Chickens reviewGWWC evaluationACE Strategy DocOther organisations discussed in the episodeRethink PrioritiesScarlet SparkAnimal Legal Defense FundThe Mission Motor[Amy’s organisation] User-Friendly: Messaging WorkshopLead Together, by Tania LunaPodcast: Knowing AnimalsKnowing Animals: Episode 210: Saving Animals (and Ourselves) with Jeff Sebo (libsyn.com)Knowing Animals: Episode 168: Speaking with animals with Eva Meijer (libsyn.com)If you enjoy the show, please leave a rating and review us - we would really appreciate it! Likewise, feel free to share it with anyone who you think might enjoy it. You can send us feedback and guest recommendations via Twitter or email us at [email protected]. Enjoy!