Hi, we’re the management team for the Animal Welfare Fund. We’re here to answer any questions about our grant making.
We recently made this set of grants, and are planning another set in February 2019. We are keen to hear from donors and potential donors about what kind of grant making you are excited about us doing, what concerns you may have, and anything in between.
Please feel free to start posting your questions from now and we will be available here and actively answering questions between 7am and 1pm PT (with some breaks) on 20th December.
Please ask different questions in separate comments, for discussion threading.
Added 1:52pm PT time: This concludes the "official" portion of the AMA, but feel free to post more questions; we may be able to respond to them over the coming week or two!
To add to Lewis' response, I think this is a crucial part of the grant-making process, especially as we are granting to some organizations with more novel approaches, or in as yet neglected regions. At ACE we use 6 months as the point at which to check in with grant recipients, typically through a survey or call, and I would expect a similar process would work well for the Animal Welfare Fund.