Lewis Bollard is the Program Director responsible for leading Coefficient Giving’s strategy for [Farm Animal Welfare](https://coefficientgiving.org/funds/farm-animal-welfare/). Before joining Coefficient Giving, he worked as Policy Advisor & International Liaison to the CEO at The Humane Society of the United States (HSUS). Prior to that, he was a litigation fellow at HSUS, a law student, and an associate consultant at Bain & Company. He has a B.A. from Harvard University in Social Studies and a JD from Yale Law School.


Fund Advisor

Coefficient Giving

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Lewis Bollard

Catherine is an EA Community Liaison at the Centre for Effective Altruism. She provides support to community members about problems they've noticed or experienced in the EA community, and assesses and mitigating risks to the community. She is also on the board of Magnify Mentoring and Effective Altruism New Zealand Charitable Trust. Before joining CEA, Catherine managed the Students for High-Impact Charity program and taught science, physics, and ethics at the high school level. She was also heavily involved in EA community building across New Zealand and Australia. Catherine holds a PhD in physics from the University of Melbourne.

Centre for Effective Altruism

Catherine Low

Aurelia Adhiambo is a project management professional who currently works as the Open Wing Alliance Africa Lead at The Humane League. She previously worked as the Africa Regional coordinator at ProVeg International Grants Program. Aurelia works with African animal advocacy organizations, providing training, technical advice, and strategy development. She holds a Bachelor's degree in Commerce from the University of Nairobi in Kenya and is currently completing her Masters Degree program in African Women Studies.


The Humane League

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Aurelia Adhiambo

Kieran Greig is the Chief Strategy Officer at Rethink Priorities. He works with the Leadership Team to advise on Rethink Priorities’ strategy and execution, at all levels. Prior to that, he was the Director of Research for Farmed Animal Funders, a group of large donors who each give over $250,000 annually to end factory farming. He previously worked as a researcher at [Animal Charity Evaluators](https://animalcharityevaluators.org/), and prior to that was a co-founder of [Charity Entrepreneurship](https://www.charityentrepreneurship.com/) and [Charity Science Health](https://www.suvita.org/). He has written about topics like [improving the welfare of farmed fish](https://animalcharityevaluators.org/research/reports/farmed-fish-welfare-report/) and [supporting plant-based alternatives to animal products](https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/eMMfBhAwrnCCxkJyz/farmed-animal-funders-custom-shallow-review-on-selecting). He has a B. Sc. from Monash University and a Masters from La Trobe University.

Rethink Priorities

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Kieran Greig

Aims to effectively improve the well-being of nonhuman animals, focusing on relatively neglected geographic regions or animals, promising research into animal advocacy or animal well-being, activities that could make it easier to help animals in the future, and otherwise best-in-class opportunities.

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# Funding the most _effective_ interventions for animals



## $30M+
##### in grants



## 370+
##### grants awarded



We find and fund the most impactful efforts to end factory farming, improve farmed animal welfare, and tackle neglected causes of animal suffering worldwide.


##### About the fund

## Rigorous grantmaking for the world's most neglected animals



Every year, tens of billions of land animals and trillions of aquatic animals and invertebrates endure extreme suffering on factory farms — yet animal welfare receives only a tiny fraction of philanthropic funding. The gap between the scale of the problem and the resources dedicated to solving it is enormous.

We close that gap by finding the most cost-effective and neglected opportunities — from corporate welfare campaigns helping chickens in the Global South to pioneering work on invertebrate welfare. Every grant is backed by rigorous evaluation so your funding goes where it will help the most animals.

AWF operates as a pooled fund. Every contribution is combined to unlock opportunities that no single donor could fund alone — giving you access to an expertly curated portfolio of the highest-impact animal welfare work worldwide.



##### 3-year grantmaking strategy

## Where your funding goes 2026–2028



#### Ending cage confinement globally

###### Corporate campaigns and policy advocacy in the Global South, where hundreds of millions of hens remain caged with no welfare oversight.



#### Aquatic animal welfare

###### R&D and on-farm improvements for farmed shrimp and fish across Asia, Africa, and Latin America.



#### Humane slaughter as the default

###### Global corporate and producer outreach to end the most painful forms of slaughter for shrimp.



#### Protecting neglected species

###### Acting before invertebrate farming scales to prevent suffering rather than fight entrenched systems later.



#### Wild animal suffering

###### Researching and piloting cost-effective interventions in urban and agricultural settings.



#### Building the Global South ecosystem

###### Core funding and movement coordination for advocates in Asia, Africa, and Latin America.



The EA Animal Welfare Fund's rigorous, evidence-based approach consistently __identifies high-impact opportunities that traditional funders overlook__ — especially in the most neglected regions and for the most numerous and neglected species.



![Lewis Bollard headshot](//images.ctfassets.net/afdyh2iav3iy/2l2lgLAewQWkWMa0Ww8mAM/571ecdf4e485aba7a0e89891c3511a33/Lewis.jpg)

Lewis Bollard

Farm Animal Welfare Managing Director at Coefficient Giving



If you're looking to do as much good as possible with your money, __donating to AWF is as safe a bet as you’re likely to get in this life__. They’ve built a team with strong epistemics who grok the gravity of their work in the face of overwhelming need and try to rise to the occasion each day. I'm so grateful a group exists that I can trust to allocate my funds optimally.



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Mark Lee

Major donor to the Animal Welfare Fund


After speaking with 10+ animal welfare experts, I kept hearing the same thing: __AWF is doing some of the most impactful grantmaking in the space__. I donate to the fund myself, and I have complete confidence my donations are doing a lot of good.

![Peter](https://images.ctfassets.net/afdyh2iav3iy/7FV4T5QEaNKZ2exk2OlupK/c3bbb9dcb2c65b5fdbad6fabfec6b735/peter.jpg)

Peter

Major donor, Anthropic



##### Impact

## Highlighted impact



The Animal Welfare Fund has recommended over 30 million dollars' worth of grants that supported our grantees’ work and their successes, including:



##### Our approach

## How we find and fund the best opportunities



## Global outreach

We actively solicit applications from organizations and individuals worldwide, ensuring a diverse range of high-impact projects for consideration.



## Rigorous evaluation

Our team conducts thorough assessments of project proposals to identify and select the most effective interventions.



## Continuous improvement

We aim to systematically evaluate the impact of our grants and adapt our grantmaking strategies to maximize our positive influence.



## Strategic collaboration

We partner with leading animal welfare organizations, researchers, and advocates to leverage collective expertise.



## Pooled resources

We aggregate donations to create a shared fund that significantly exceeds individual donor capacity, enabling support for both smaller- and larger-scale initiatives.



## Transparency and accountability

We are committed to openness in our resource allocation processes, ensuring responsible stewardship of donor funds in advancing animal welfare.



##### Consider this

## Who this fund is for



## Why donate to this fund

The Animal Welfare Fund holds a unique position to identify and support the most effective opportunities to help animals globally.



## The scale of animal suffering is immense

85 billion chickens, 100 billion farmed fish, 440 billion farmed shrimp are raised each year — most in systems where welfare is an afterthought. The problem is vast and underfunded relative to its scale.



## Funding to address this remains critically limited

Despite the magnitude of this problem, animal advocacy receives only a small fraction of charitable donations — most of it going to companion animals in shelters. This leaves billions of farmed animals highly neglected relative to their numbers.



## Our fund maximizes the impact of your contribution

We deploy a rigorous evaluation process — assessing theory of change, counterfactual impact, cost-effectiveness, and likelihood of success. Every grant undergoes systematic review. We track outcomes and continuously improve.



## Why you might choose not to donate

This fund isn't the right fit for everyone. Two reasons to look elsewhere:



## You don't support incremental welfare improvements

Much of our grantmaking supports work on reducing farmed animal suffering through positive but incremental changes — corporate campaigns, cage-free transitions, welfare standards. We also support systemic interventions like policy advocacy, but if you believe incremental welfare improvements are wrong to fund, some of our grants may not align with your worldview.



## You have a preference for specific interventions or species

We build a diversified portfolio across species, regions, and intervention types. If you want certainty that your donation goes to a specific cause area — for example, only wild animal welfare or only alternative proteins — a more targeted fund may be a better fit.



##### Recent updates

## Writing by the fund managers

The fund publishes payout reports, strategy updates, and research on the EA Forum.



##### Explore the data

## Grants distribution in 2025



## Featured grants in detail



##### FAQ

## Frequently asked questions



## Join us in making impact for animals

You can donate through the Giving What We Can website by following [this link](https://www.givingwhatwecan.org/funds/effective-altruism-funds) and clicking the “Make Payment” button on the bottom right.

You can find all information about tax-deductibility in the Payment Details. While we advise donors to give tax-effectively when possible, we believe impact is more important than tax benefits.


How do I make a donation to an EA Fund?

The Animal Welfare Fund makes donations to a range of different interventions. Some are more proven interventions, while others are likely to be higher-risk, but potentially higher-return, opportunities. As such, we categorize the Fund’s risk level as “low-medium.”

For more information on how we think about grantmaking risk, please read our [Risk Profiles page](https://app.effectivealtruism.org/funds/about/risk).

What is the risk profile of the Animal Welfare Fund?

The Animal Welfare Fund makes grants on a rolling basis. You will usually have to wait 1-3 months after submitting an application until the full process is completed.

How often does the Animal Welfare Fund make grants?

Our grantmaking process consists of the following stages:

__Stage 1: Application processing.__ When we receive an application, it's entered into our project management system along with the complete application details, history of previous applications from the applicant, evaluation rubrics, investigator assignments, and other relevant documentation. 

__Stage 2: Initial screening__. We conduct a quick scope check to ensure applications align with our fund's mission and show potential for high impact. About 30% of applications are filtered out at this stage, typically because they fall outside our scope or don't demonstrate sufficient impact potential.

__Stage 3: Selecting primary grant investigator and depth of the evaluation__. For applications that pass the initial screening, we assign investigators who are most suitable for a given evaluation. Based on various heuristics, such as the size of the grant, uncertainty, and potential risk, the Fund’s Chair also determines the depth of the evaluation. 

__Stage 4: In-depth evaluation__. Every grant application undergoes a systematic review. For each level of depth of investigation required, AWF has an evaluation template that fund managers follow. The framework balances ensuring that all key factors have been considered and that evaluations are consistent, while leaving space for additional, grant-specific crucial considerations. For the deep evaluations, (which are the vast majority of all evaluations), the primary investigator typically examines:

- Theory of change (ToC) - examining how activities translate into improvements for animals and whether the evidence supports its merits 
- Scale of counterfactual impact - assessing the problem's scale, neglectedness, and strategic importance
- Likelihood of success - evaluating track record, team competence, and concrete plans
- Cost-effectiveness and benchmarking- conducting calculations to estimate impact per dollar and compare it to relevant benchmarks 
- Value of funding - analyzing counterfactuals and long-term sustainability
- Forecasting - forecasting the probability that the project will succeed or fail and due to what reasons (validity of the ToC or performance in achieving planned outcomes )
- In the case of evaluations that require the maximum level of depth, a secondary investigator critically reviews the completed write-up, raises additional questions and concerns, and provides alternative perspectives or recommendations. 

__Stage 5: Collective review and voting__. After the evaluation, each application undergoes a thorough collective assessment. The Fund Chair and at least two Fund Managers review the analysis. All Fund Managers without conflicts of interest can contribute additional insights and discuss key questions through dedicated channels. Finally, each Fund Manager assigns a score, which helps us systematically compare the most promising grants.

__Stage 6: Final recommendation__.
Looking at the average score, the Fund Chair approves grants that are clearly above our funding bar and rejects those clearly below it. For grants near our funding threshold, we conduct another step where all fund managers compare those marginal grants against each other to select the strongest proposals.

Once decisions are finalized, approved grants move to our grants team for contracting and reporting setup.

Throughout this process, we maintain detailed documentation and apply consistent standards to ensure we select the most promising opportunities to help animals most effectively.

How does the Animal Welfare Fund make grant decisions?

Animal Charity Evaluators (ACE) operates two distinct funding programs that serve different purposes in the animal advocacy space. Understanding these differences can help donors choose the giving opportunity that best matches their priorities.

The first is ACE's Recommended Charity Fund, which supports a select group of evaluated, established organizations. These charities undergo comprehensive evaluation every two years to verify their strong track records of impact. The Animal Welfare Fund takes a different approach, funding both established organizations and promising early-stage projects based on expected cost-effectiveness. Many organizations we supported early, such as the Shrimp Welfare Project, and Kafessiz Türkiye, later became ACE-recommended charities. We make decisions throughout the year to respond quickly to opportunities, and while our evaluations may be less comprehensive than ACE's, this allows us to consider a wider range of projects. Our grants tend to be more hits-based, potentially offering higher marginal cost-effectiveness but with less certainty than ACE's Top Charities. Donors prioritizing proven impact might prefer ACE's Recommended Charity Fund over AWF's more maximizing expected cost-effectiveness, hits-based  approach.

ACE's second program, Movement Grants, takes a pluralistic approach to strengthen global advocacy by providing numerous smaller grants to emerging groups, especially in regions where animal advocacy is developing. AWF approaches movement building differently, funding both local and international projects based primarily on their potential impact rather than geographic distribution. While we consider movement growth, our main focus is cost-effectiveness. We provide both small (<$20,000) and large (>$150,000) grants, typically fully funding particularly promising opportunities, even if this means making fewer grants overall. Donors specifically interested in building global advocacy capacity across all regions might prefer ACE's Movement Grants over AWF's more targeted approach to cost-effectiveness.

In 2023, Giving What We Can evaluated and compared AWF and ACE's regranting work. You can see this third-party comparative analysis [here](https://www.givingwhatwecan.org/why-and-how-gwwc-evaluates-the-evaluators). Given the recent changes at AWF and ACE, it is out of date. Still, it is currently the only external evaluation available, and donors may find it informative.

What other donation opportunities exist in this space? How is the Animal Welfare Fund different from a donation to Animal Charity Evaluators’ Recommended Charities or Movement Building Grants?

The Animal Welfare Fund accepts applications on a rolling basis. If your work fits our funding scope, don’t hesitate to apply using the link below.

[Apply here](https://av20jp3z.paperform.co/?fund=Animal%20Welfare%20Fund)

If your project falls outside our scope, but you believe it can create high impact for animals, feel free to apply nonetheless or contact us with any questions at: animalwelfare@effectivealtruismfunds.org

Can I apply for funding to the Animal Welfare Fund?

In May 2025, AWF recommended a grant to support a program that will train 20 leaders to educate hundreds of farmers in India on science-based best practices for cage-free egg production. Hosted on a model farm, the five-day program will offer hands-on instruction, distribute locally tailored training materials, and establish a peer-learning network to foster ongoing mentorship and knowledge sharing.

India produces [nearly as many eggs annually as all Southeast Asian countries combined](https://www.fao.org/faostat/en/#data/QCL). [Virtually all Indian egg production ](https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/laying-hens-cages-and-cage-free)is caged, yet cage-free advocacy efforts in the country are minimal. According to a 2022 [evaluation of cage-free adoption in several Asian countries](https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/36583038/), nearly three-quarters of egg producers cited a lack of support - particularly technical advice, training, and resources - as a barrier to establishing cage-free farms. Given the limited traction of corporate campaigns in India so far, the scale of Indian egg production, and the claimed importance of technical support, AWF is interested in supporting a trial of hands-on farmer training’s effectiveness. If this program is successful, it could be scaled to improve the welfare of millions of hens in the country. This project will also occur at a critical time because there are just months remaining until deadlines for fulfilling corporate welfare commitments in India; this training will increase the chance that those commitments are met.

Since the grant, the program exceeded expectations, training 31 individuals - surpassing the original goal of 20 - including farm managers, academic faculty, and government officials. Most encouragingly, ripple effects can be observed. The Government of Uttar Pradesh organized a follow-up training for over 200 individuals, including egg producers, immediately after the program. Gujarat state is planning similar expanded training. This multiplication effect demonstrates the program's potential to scale impact throughout India's massive egg production industry at a critical time when corporate welfare commitments are approaching their deadlines.


Training of Trainers (5-day) in India to equip key stakeholders with best practices in cage-free egg farming

Shrimp are the most farmed animals globally (~[440 billion annually](https://rethinkpriorities.org/research-area/shrimp-the-animals-most-commonly-used-and-killed-for-food-production/)) yet receive minimal welfare protections during slaughter. In March 2025, AWF provided this grant to fund TCRS together with a research partner from Professor Amaya Albalat's leading crustacean welfare lab. The researchers will test whether properly implemented ice slurry methods can effectively stun shrimp and reduce pain during slaughter in the real environment of a shrimp farm in a hot climate rather than in a lab environment with more controlled conditions. This method will also be compared at a small scale to electrical stunning (with collaboration from the Shrimp Welfare Project). Based on the outcome of this research, TCRS aims to develop practical humane slaughter guidelines and report the outcomes of their work to the Global Seafood Alliance for consideration in their certification standards of Best Aquaculture Practices, which certifies 11% of global shrimp production.

This initiative could impact around 50 billion shrimp annually by ensuring shrimp are killed more humanely than through asphyxiation. Even if the research doesn’t prove that chill-killing can be done humanely in those conditions, and therefore won’t be recommended, this project still provides valuable information that can inform advocacy for electrical stunning. This project is likely to be incredibly cost-effective, and it has a clear theory of change and a high likelihood of success as a result of the organization’s strong track record and leadership. Additionally, despite the massive scale of impact, shrimp welfare is a neglected cause, giving the AWF a unique position to support work in this area.

Since receiving the grant,  TCRS and the lab of Prof. Amaya Albalat has already initiated lab-testing of various chill-killing methods and collaborated with several farms in India to implement and test chill-killing methods in a real farming environment. What is more, the grant contributed to spreading shrimp welfare awareness throughout the industry. In May 2025, TCRS held a webinar on eyestalk ablation, humane slaughter, and proper grow-out techniques. Most significantly, their annual Shrimp Summit in June 2025 featured a dedicated session on shrimp welfare for the first time - a milestone in bringing welfare considerations into mainstream industry discussions.


Research & pilot program on humane chill-killing at Indian shrimp farms to inform global certification standards

Africa is poised to become the world's fastest-growing egg production region; according to [FAO projections](https://www.fao.org/global-perspectives-studies/food-agriculture-projections-to-2050/en/), it will surpass Asia and Latin America by 2030. Yet across the continent, hundreds of millions of layer hens are confined to battery cages—small wire enclosures that prevent hens from spreading their wings, nesting, or expressing natural behaviors. This industrial expansion is happening with minimal animal welfare oversight, as Africa [receives](https://straydoginstitute.org/docs/State-of-the-Movement-2024.pdf) only 1.2% to 2.6% of global animal advocacy funding despite its massive scale. But a move to cage-free can [reduce](https://drive.google.com/file/d/1he5hQ_2VmLKUdsBqEPU5yeneOTCbGoAs/view) the time hens spend in disabling pain by 64% and in hurtful pain by 57%.

AWF began supporting the Animal Welfare League in 2022, recognizing their potential to prevent this trajectory from becoming entrenched. After three grants for work in Ghana that helped AWL secure cage-free corporate commitments and establish the first cage-free producer network (AWL wrote about that progress here), AWF provided a fourth grant ($130,000) in January 2025 to scale their impact across the continent through policy-level intervention in Ghana and regional work in South Africa and Morocco to increase cage-free egg supply.

AWL's approach combines multiple strategic interventions. Thanks to AWF's recent grant, AWL secured a Memorandum of Understanding with Ghana's Standards Authority to co-develop national poultry standards that could affect all [23 million](https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/laying-hens-cages-and-cage-free?country=GHA~ZAF~MAR) of Ghana's hens, potentially making it one of the first African nations to have a cage-free code of practice. While policy opportunities have a very high expected impact, their success is less certain, so AWL operates simultaneously on the corporate and producer level. To support multinational companies in fulfilling their commitments in Africa, AWL works on creating cage-free directories and increasing the supply of cage-free eggs. Following the recent grant, AWL signed up nine commercial producers across South Africa and Morocco who are committed to cage-free for a total of 35,000 hens, and added them to the directory, reducing barriers to fulfilling regional corporate commitments. To ensure genuine change, AWL also introduced farmers to the Certified Humane program to strengthen third-party certification processes.

A budget to support cage-free policy work in Ghana and recruiting cage-free farms in South Africa, Egypt, and Morocco

In September 2024, the Animal Welfare Fund provided a grant of $100,000 to Fórum Nacional de Proteção e Defesa Animal to support accountability work for companies who already have committed to banning cages in their egg supply chains. The project aims to increase transparent reporting from 140 companies who are transitioning or have already transitioned to cage-free egg production. They will then launch a national campaign to publicize companies who are simply “humane washing,” but not actually fulfilling their commitments.
Fórum is a professional and experienced organization with a strong track record of engaging with companies throughout Brazil that have made cage-free commitments. They had strong outcomes using previous funding from the AWF and have increasingly improved their efforts to strongly pressure companies into reporting and improving their progress. The fund managers also believe that cage-free accountability efforts are an especially effective intervention because companies must be engaged frequently in order to fulfill their commitments, and additionally, with many deadlines for cage-free commitments approaching in 2025, this is a particularly critical time to push for implementation.

Since receiving this grant, Fórum released Brazil’s most comprehensive corporate accountability [report](https://www.egglab.org.br/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/Relatorio-EggLab24-vf-3.pdf) on cage-free commitments. Thanks to the work of Fórum Nacional and many others, 16 companies reported transitioning to 100% cage-free eggs, and 14 other reported their progress toward cage-free production. In Brazil, a country that holds more than 250M hens and that, a few years ago, had almost no cage-free production, the trend is starting to change. Even the largest egg producer, Mantiqueir, [is 15% cage-free](https://valorinternational.globo.com/agribusiness/news/2024/03/18/mantiqueira-wants-more-cage-free-chickens.ghtml), sparing 2.5M hens from cages. Such progress is a huge success, thanks to an effort by many organizations in Brazil and internationally.

Project and staff expenses to work on corporate welfare washing in cage-free accountability in Brazil

Funding organizations and projects that will help alleviate the suffering of millions or billions of animals.

In 2019, the suffering of the world’s 440 billion shrimp was largely neglected. AWF's funding of Rethink Priorities’ cause prioritization work revealed this problem, then AWF grants launched the Shrimp Welfare Project (SWP) and other groups working on shrimp welfare. SWP improved 1.2 billion lives during their first two grant periods and secured commitments from 18 producers across the globe, helping 4 billion shrimp. Thanks to them and other advocacy groups AWF supported, nine retailers committed to humane stunning. The field transformed from nearly nothing to helping billions annually.

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Establishing the field of shrimp welfare and reducing the suffering of billions

The Global South produces almost 80% of eggs globally. Yet, before 2020, only 24% of cage-free commitments were in the Global South, but after 2020, this jumped to 51%. AWF's grants helped kickstart and scale groups across Brazil, Peru, Ghana, Indonesia, Colombia and other countries, securing commitments and ensuring implementation. For example, Sinergia Animal secured over 170 commitments in Latin America and Asia, while Fórum Animal drove accountability by securing progress reports from 30 Brazilian companies. Thanks to all the groups AWF supported, millions of hens escaped confinement.

Cage We animals

Driving cage-free adoption in neglected, high-producing countries

Policy change establishes lasting protections for billions of animals through legally-binding standards. Organizations AWF supported secured notable victories, including Crustacean Compassion achieving legal recognition of decapod sentience in the UK, which opened doors for 8 UK retailers to commit to pre-slaughter stunning of shrimp. Meanwhile, Animal Enterprise Transparency Project engaged Slovenian policymakers, resulting in legislation requiring analgesia during piglet castration and banning hen cages nationwide, making Slovenia the 5th EU country to ban all cages for hens.

Cage free Africa

Driving policy change and legal protection for the most numerous farmed animals 

Karolina is the Chair of the EA AWF, where she has worked as a part-time Fund Manager since 2019. Previously, she was the Co-founder and Co-Executive Director at Ambitious Impact (formerly Charity Entrepreneurship). For her work, Karolina was [recognized](https://www.vox.com/23892694/joey-savoie-karolina-sarek-charity-entrepreneurship-future-perfect-50-2023) in Vox's Future Perfect 50 list. She also served as a board member and advisor for various nonprofits, including Shrimp Welfare Project, Animal Policy International, and Fish Welfare Initiative.

Earlier in her career, she co-founded an organization to improve the impact of nonprofits, worked on measurement and evaluation, and was involved in research for IBM and the Jagiellonian University (JU). While still a student, she became a university teaching fellow, lecturing at JU's Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science. She graduated with a Postgraduate Diploma in Psychology and Neuroscience from Kings College London.

Director

EA Animal Welfare Fund

Karolina

Karolina Sarek

Zoë Sigle is the Director of Philanthropic Advising & Programs at Farmed Animals Funders, a donor learning community made up of foundations and individuals donating $250,000+ annually to end factory farming. She builds high-quality member programming and guides charitable giving with a focus on effectiveness. Prior to that, Zoë led the global corporate engagement program at Mercy For Animals and conducted corporate policy outreach at The Humane League. She holds a Master of Food and Agriculture Law and Policy degree from Vermont Law School and a BA from the University of Colorado Boulder.

Fund Manager

Farmed Animal Funders

Zoë Sigle

Renata is a full-time Fund Manager at EA AWF. Previously, she served as a program manager at Effective Ventures, supporting the spinout of multiple projects into independent entities. Before that, she spent nearly eight years at Mercy For Animals, where she led efforts to advance corporate animal welfare policies and promote plant-based options in public and private institutions. She also serves on the board of the Welfare Footprint Institute.

Renata

Renata Scarellis

Dr. Neil Dullaghan is a full-time senior fund manager with the AWF, where he has worked since 2022. Previously, he worked at Rethink Priorities as a Senior Research Manager on their farmed animal welfare team and led a regranting fund focused on EU farmed animal welfare policy.

He holds a PhD in Political & Social Science from the European University Institute, an MPhil in European Politics & Society from the University of Oxford and a BA in International Relations from Dublin City University. He has volunteered for Charity Entrepreneurship and Animal Charity Evaluators.

Senior Program Officer

Neil Dullaghan

Ren is a research scientist with particular expertise in quantitative skills, including data analysis, statistical programming, and biological and economic modelling. They work as a Research Scientist at Animal Ask. Before that, Ren worked in academia and as a fisheries scientist in government, and they also provided their skills to the Animal Justice Party. Ren is passionate about social justice, politics, and protecting animals in the long-term future. Ren's PhD and publications explored fisheries, effective philanthropy, and animal sentience. They also hold a Graduate Certificate in Applied Economics and a Bachelor of Science (Advanced) in Ecology.

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