Animal Charity Evaluators Names The Humane League a Top Charity for 2022

Since 2012, Animal Charity Evaluators (ACE) has helped people help animals by finding, analyzing, and recommending the most effective animal advocacy groups in the United States and around the world. Relying on empirical evidence and logical reasoning, ACE determines the best animal charities to donate to, work at, and volunteer with in order to improve the lives of farmed animals and wild animals. Ultimately, ACE's mission is to "find and promote the most effective ways to help animals"—and these two cause areas represent the most promising avenues for helping animals as much as possible.

Given their rigorous emphasis on impact at scale, we're honored to announce that Animal Charity Evaluators has recognized The Humane League as a Top Charity for 2022. As the only organization to have earned this distinction every year that it's been awarded, we are grateful to ACE for amplifying our efforts to wage—and win—campaigns that meaningfully improve the lives of millions of animals each year. At THL, we push corporations in the meat, dairy, and egg industries to end the worst abuses suffered by animals within our broken food system—holding them accountable to following through for the animals in their supply chains.

We're also extremely grateful to our community of changemakers, who fuel this work—and our movement—to end the abuse of animals raised for food. None of this would be possible without supporters like you, whose passion and dedication are changing the world for animals.

What is Animal Charity Evaluators?

A charity navigator, ACE offers advice on the most effective ways to help animals and prevent the largest amount of suffering. As an effective altruist organization, ACE seeks to make the world a better place using evidence and reasoning. Their team conducts extensive research to discover and evaluate the most impactful animal charities in the nation. To date, ACE has reviewed over 350 groups and influenced donors to give over $26 million in gifts to the charities ACE recommends most highly.

During every rating period, ACE identifies just several Top Charities, to recognize—and celebrate—the effectiveness of their strategies and solutions. ACE evaluates these advocacy groups through multiple rounds of review and ultimately chooses the Top Charities based on the efficiency of their programs, the cost-effectiveness of their victories, their track record of achievement, their healthy work culture, their long-term strategy, and their adaptability to keep doing what's working and stop doing what's not. In short, ACE recognizes the groups that make the greatest amount of change for the most animals in the most efficient way possible. 

This is why The Humane League is a top rated animal welfare charity

At The Humane League (THL), we want to end the abuse of animals raised for food. Effectiveness is one of our core values, because we're committed to having the most significant impact we can in the lives of animals trapped in factory farms and slaughterhouses.

This year, ACE celebrates our corporate campaigns, which meaningfully improve the lives of animals by pressuring companies to adopt higher welfare standards. This year alone, through the collective efforts of our changemaker community, we saw incredible change take shape:

• The Open Wing Alliance, a global coalition of animal protection groups led by The Humane League, secured a win from major bakeries around the world. Cinnabon, Auntie Anne's, Jamba, Brioche Dorée, and more pledged to source only cage-free eggs.
• Thanks to the Open Wing Alliance, the third titan of the luxury cruise industry—Carnival Corporation—committed to ending its use of cages.
• In a series of breakthroughs for egg-laying hens, The Cheesecake Factory and Panda Express announced global cage-free policies to source only cage-free eggs.
• Marking a huge milestone, over 500 companies—and counting—have committed to adopting higher welfare standards for chickens raised for meat.
• Drugstore giants CVS and Walgreens both accelerated their plans to completely end their use of cages.
• Quiznos, Red Robin, Black Bear Diner shared progress on their cage-free pledges.
• According to a new report from the Open Wing Alliance, the vast majority of companies are following through on ending their use of cages.
• RiteAid, Pokeworks, BJ's Wholesale Club, and Japanese restaurant giant Toridoll all promised to spare egg-laying hens from the worst forms of confinement.
• HelloFresh, the largest meal kit company in the world, followed through on its commitments to eliminate cruelty against chickens raised for meat.
• Compass and Sodexo, two of the world's biggest foodservice providers, both shared roadmaps for how they plan to do better for egg-laying hens, mother pigs, and chickens raised for meat.
• Following the launch of a new report by the Open Wing Alliance, hospitality giants Four Seasons, Norwegian Cruise Line, and Langham Hotels recommitted to a future without cages.
• In October, the Supreme Court of the United States heard oral arguments in a case brought by the pig industry, which is trying to tear down Proposition 12–widely considered the strongest animal protection law in the world. The judges are expected to deliver a decision in spring of 2023, but The Humane League was joined by a host of experts and advocates in defending the landmark law.

What you can do

When we come together, we can disrupt "business as usual" in the food industry and change the lives of millions of innocent animals. Will you join us?