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
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Animal Advocacy Careers’ skills profiles
SECONDARY RECOMMENDATIONS
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Animal Charity Evaluators’ short post on “Why Farmed Animals?”
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Centre for Effective Altruism’s Introduction to Effective Altruism (or equivalent resources)
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Animal Advocacy Careers’ “Effective Animal Advocacy Nonprofit Roles Spot-Check”
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Animal Charity Evaluators’ reviews of their four “top charities” (see the the “Overview” tab of each)
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Sentience Institute’s “Summary of Evidence for Foundational Questions in Effective Animal Advocacy”
CAREER STRATEGY
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Animal Advocacy Career’s glossary for impact-focused career strategy
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80,000 Hours: “Take care of yourself and your mental health”
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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)
DECISION-MAKING
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80,000 Hours: How to make tough career decisions (concrete decisions)
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Peter Hurford: “Using a spreadsheet to make good decisions: five examples” (also 80,000 Hours’ version)
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80,000 Hours: How to make your career plan (for long term plans, ABZ plans, though the concrete decisions doc is clearer)
KEY CONCEPTS IN EFFECTIVE ALTRUISM
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Jamie Harris’ introductory talk on effective animal advocacy
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Centre for Effective Altruism: “Introduction to Effective Altruism”
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Centre for Effective Altruism’s Map of Effective Altruism Concepts
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Centre for Effective Altruism’s Discussion of heavy-tailed distributions
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Brian Tomasik: “Why Charities Usually Don't Differ Astronomically in Expected Cost-Effectiveness”
CAUSE PRIORITISATION
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Various cause profiles by the Centre for Effective Altruism and 80,000 Hours
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(2 hour interview) Toby Ord: “Why the long-term future of humanity matters more than anything else, and what we should do about it”
SUB-CAUSE PRIORITISATION WITHIN ANIMAL ADVOCACY
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Sentience Institute: “[meta] Long-term vs. short-term focus”
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Sentience Institute: “Farmed animal vs. wild animals vs. general antispeciesism focus”
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Sentience Institute: “Momentum vs. complacency from welfare reforms”
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Animal Charity Evaluators’ short post on “Why Farmed Animals?”
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Animal Charity Evaluators’ discussion on cause prioritisation
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Animal Charity Evaluators’ summary views of the scale, neglectedness, and tractability of different animal advocacy cause areas (see the subtitle “Overall”)
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“Reducing wild animal suffering literature library” — see the “Introductory Material”
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(30 min talk) Persis Eskander: “Reducing Wild-Animal Suffering Through Research”
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(3 hour interview) Persis Eskander: Wild animal welfare and what, if anything, to do about it
INTERVENTION PRIORITISATION
RESOURCES FOR CONNECTING WITH THE EFFECTIVE ANIMAL ADVOCACY COMMUNITY
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Various conferences and events, including those organised by existing local effective altruism groups and animal advocacy groups
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The Effective Animal Advocacy - Discussion Facebook group
PLACES TO LOOK UP JOB OPPORTUNITIES
WEBSITES OF RELEVANT ORGANISATIONS
HIGH-IMPACT DONATIONS
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“Phil Trammell: Philanthropy Timing and the Hinge of History” (transcript, video). For more in-depth versions, see his article or the 80k podcast.