This page recommends resources that can be used as part of your planning to help animals as much as possible over the course of your career.​

We suggest that you select resources by sub-title, rather than attempting to read from top to bottom.

​HIGHEST PRIORITY RESOURCES

• 80,000 Hours’ key ideas or the podcast version of this

• Animal Advocacy Careers’ skills profiles

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SECONDARY RECOMMENDATIONS

• Animal Charity Evaluators’ short post on “Why Farmed Animals?”

• Centre for Effective Altruism’s Introduction to Effective Altruism (or equivalent resources)

• Animal Advocacy Careers’ “Effective Animal Advocacy Nonprofit Roles Spot-Check”

• Animal Charity Evaluators’ reviews of their four “top charities” (see the the “Overview” tab of each)

• Sentience Institute’s “Summary of Evidence for Foundational Questions in Effective Animal Advocacy”

• Talent bottleneck survey

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CAREER STRATEGY

• Animal Advocacy Career’s glossary for impact-focused career strategy

• 80,000 Hours’ key ideas or the podcast version of this

• 80,000 Hours on weighting different factors

• 80,000 Hours: “Career strategy”

• 80,000 Hours: “Personal fit”

• 80,000 Hours: “Exploration”

• 80,000 Hours: “Accidental harm”

• 80,000 Hours: “Career capital”

• 80,000 Hours: “Take care of yourself and your mental health”

• 80,000 Hours: “Personal wellbeing”

• 80,000 Hours on personal development

• 80,000 Hours: “Coordination”

• 80,000 Hours on comparative advantage

• 80,000 Hours: “How much risk should you take?”

• Ryan Carey and Tegan Mccaslin: SHOW: A framework for shaping your talent for direct work (tips on breaking into work at impact-focused organisations if you’re getting rejections)

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DECISION-MAKING

• 80,000 Hours: How to make tough career decisions (concrete decisions)

• Peter Hurford: “Using a spreadsheet to make good decisions: five examples” (also 80,000 Hours’ version)

• 80,000 Hours: How to make your career plan (for long term plans, ABZ plans, though the concrete decisions doc is clearer)

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KEY CONCEPTS IN EFFECTIVE ALTRUISM

• Jamie Harris’ introductory talk on effective animal advocacy

• William MacAskill’s TED talk

• Centre for Effective Altruism: “Introduction to Effective Altruism”

• Centre for Effective Altruism’s Map of Effective Altruism Concepts

• Scott Alexander on resource tradeoffs and maximising value

• 80,000 Hours: “Expected value and counterfactuals”

• Centre for Effective Altruism’s Discussion of heavy-tailed distributions

• Brian Tomasik: “Why Charities Usually Don't Differ Astronomically in Expected Cost-Effectiveness”

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CAUSE PRIORITISATION

• Various cause profiles by the Centre for Effective Altruism and 80,000 Hours

• 80,000 Hours on the importance of cause prioritisation

• Centre for Effective Altruism: “The Long-Term Future”

• Sentience Institute: “Why I prioritize moral circle expansion over artificial intelligence alignment”

• (2 hour interview) Toby Ord: “Why the long-term future of humanity matters more than anything else, and what we should do about it”

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SUB-CAUSE PRIORITISATION WITHIN ANIMAL ADVOCACY

• Sentience Institute: “Why I prioritize moral circle expansion over artificial intelligence alignment”

• Sentience Institute: “[meta] Long-term vs. short-term focus”

• Sentience Institute: “Farmed animal vs. wild animals vs. general antispeciesism focus”

• Sentience Institute: “Momentum vs. complacency from welfare reforms”

• Animal Charity Evaluators’ short post on “Why Farmed Animals?”

• Animal Charity Evaluators’ discussion on cause prioritisation

• Animal Charity Evaluators’ summary views of the scale, neglectedness, and tractability of different animal advocacy cause areas (see the subtitle “Overall”)

• “Reducing wild animal suffering literature library” — see the “Introductory Material”

• (30 min talk) Persis Eskander: “Reducing Wild-Animal Suffering Through Research”

• (3 hour interview) Persis Eskander: Wild animal welfare and what, if anything, to do about it

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INTERVENTION PRIORITISATION

• Animal Charity Evaluators’ interventions reports

• Sentience Institute’s “Summary of Evidence for Foundational Questions in Effective Animal Advocacy”

• Introduction to cultivated meat reading list

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RESOURCES FOR CONNECTING WITH THE EFFECTIVE ANIMAL ADVOCACY COMMUNITY

• Various conferences and events, including those organised by existing local effective altruism groups and animal advocacy groups

• The effective animal advocacy community directory

• The Effective Animal Advocacy - Discussion Facebook group

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PLACES TO LOOK UP JOB OPPORTUNITIES

• 80,000 Hours’ jobs board

• The Good Food Institute’s jobs board

• ”Effective Altruism Job Postings” Facebook group

• EA work club

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WEBSITES OF RELEVANT ORGANISATIONS

• Albert Schweitzer Foundation

• Animal Charity Evaluators

• Animal Equality

• Animal Ethics

• Charity Entrepreneurship

• Compassion in World Farming USA

• Federation of Indian Animal Protection Organisations

• Faunalytics

• The Good Food Institute

• The Humane League

• Humane League Labs

• Humane Society of the United States Farm Animal Protection Campaign

• L214

• Mercy For Animals

• Modern Agriculture Foundation

• New Harvest

• Nonhuman Rights Project

• Open Cages / Anima International

• Open Philanthropy Project, Farm Animal Welfare

• ProVeg International

• Rethink Priorities

• Sentience Institute

• Sinergia Animal

• Sociedade Vegetariana Brasileira

• Vegan Outreach

• Veganuary

• Wild Animal Initiative

HIGH-IMPACT DONATIONS

• Animal Charity Evaluators’ “Top Charities”

• 80,000 Hours on earning to give

• Julia Wise: Giving now vs giving later (summary from 2013)

• “Phil Trammell: Philanthropy Timing and the Hinge of History” (transcript, video). For more in-depth versions, see his article or the 80k podcast.

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HIGH-IMPACT VOLUNTEERING

• 80,000 Hours: Where’s the best place to volunteer?

• Advertised volunteering opportunities at Animal Charity Evaluators’ recommended charities

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OTHER USEFUL EFFECTIVE ANIMAL ADVOCACY RESOURCES

• Rethink Priorities: “Effective Animal Advocacy Resources”