“Five Years of Animal Advocacy Careers: Our Journey to impact, Lessons Learned, and What’s Next” by lauren_mee, Ana Barreiro, Engin Arikan, Animal Advocacy Careers

This post is mostly about our key learnings, impact made and future plans Thanks to my team for their help in both creating this post and unwavering commitment to driving forward AAC's ambitious plans for animals, in particular Ana Barreiro, Nayan and Engin for their contributions and feedback on this post. TL;DR: For five years, Animal Advocacy Careers (AAC) has tried to direct passionate professionals towards high-impact opportunities that have the potential to help animals the most.  We've filled 105 roles in leading animal advocacy organisations, supported over 150 organisations with recruitment, and launched 3 core programs our online course, job board, and career advising service. At the same time, we built a community of 27,500+ supporters across social media, Slack, and email. Our efforts also led to 12 🔶10% Pledges and 11 🔷Trial Pledges at Giving What We Can. We cautiously estimate adding $2.5 million worth of counterfactual impact [...] ---Outline:(02:19) Overview(02:45) Background(04:41) Lessons learned(04:53) The talent gap is a major bottleneck but has its own natural ceiling and limitations.(08:58) Measuring meta organisations impact is hard and often flawed, leaving you with long-lasting uncertainty.(12:04) Focusing too much on lean programmes and not the user(14:14) Hiring well is really hard, and still neglected(16:51) The importance of talent density in a small team(19:37) The Importance of Targeted Channels and Personas(22:30) The importance of building a funnel(24:16) Our work over 5 years(24:20) Outcomes and impacts(26:42) Organisational size(27:04) Future Plans(30:48) Funding NeedsThe original text contained 2 images which were described by AI. --- First published: September 19th, 2024 Source: https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/bC4MmaRQ6ybXKvqav/five-years-of-animal-advocacy-careers-our-journey-to-impact --- Narrated by TYPE III AUDIO. ---Images from the article:Apple Podcasts and Spotify do not show images in the episode description. Try Pocket Casts, or another podcast app.