The Movement Grants Program builds and strengthens the animal advocacy movement by funding a diverse range of promising projects around the globe.
Movement Grants supports initiatives that use novel interventions, target large numbers of animals, and operate in regions that are underrepresented in animal advocacy. The program presents an opportunity for emerging or smaller initiatives to receive financial support, playing a critical role in expanding animal advocacy to more regions and species. ACE reports that supporting a wide variety of organizations helps generate new evidence about what interventions work best to help animals.
ACE launched Movement Grants in late 2018 for three main reasons:
Donations to Movement Grants will be distributed to promising projects around the globe working to reduce animal suffering, as determined by the review committee. Recently, grants have been awarded to:
For more information about how donations are allocated, see the list of past recipients and frequently asked questions on the ACE website.
The Giving What We Can research team investigated ACE’s Movement Grants program as part of our 2024 evaluator investigations and determined that it is a great choice for donors wishing to maximise the impact of their “dollar” in the animal welfare space.2 See the full report here.
Giving What We Can also evaluated ACE's Movement Grants program in 2023, at which time we decided not to add it to our list of recommended programs. (You can find both the 2023 and 2024 reports on the page dedicated to our evaluators research.) Our findings from the 2024 report indicate that the program has improved substantially on all of our areas of concern in 2023 and we are now confident that ACE MG is one of the best options we are aware of in animal welfare.