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Top 10: Protecting & Defending Our Oceans

Charity Navigator Jul 17, 2018
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• Charity Navigator provides a list of the top 10 organizations that are doing work to protect the oceans. 

• How can other organizations collaborate to make these types of the lists together? 

• Read about how to navigate data and organizations that are funding work to help clean the ocean. 


Each week Charity Navigator publishes a new Top 10 list of highly-rated charities working on a particular cause or issue. With a heatwave impacting much of the country, there seems like no better time to feature a few of the awesome organizations that are working to protect and defend our oceans for the animals and people who rely on them.

Here are the first five:

Clean Ocean Action is a broad-based coalition of 125 active boating, business, community, conservation, diving, environmental, fishing, religious, service, student, surfing, and women’s groups. Together, these “Ocean Wavemakers” work to clean up and protect New York and New Jersey’s coastal marine waters.

Surfrider Foundation is dedicated to the protection and enjoyment of the world’s ocean, waves, and beaches through a powerful activist network.

Coral Reef Alliance unites the diving community around conservation, Coral Reef Alliance (CORAL) has grown from a small, grassroots alliance into a world-renowned organization with a history of successfully working with local communities in coral reef regions around the world to protect their coral reefs.

Ocean Discovery Institute addresses a national crisis in science education–one particularly acute in underserved communities.  Their solution is to deliver rigorous educational, scientific research, and environmental stewardship experiences that build curiosity, scientific understanding and skills, and leadership in underserved young people from kid to career.

Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences investigates the microbial drivers of global ocean processes through basic and applied research, education, and enterprise. Their findings are essential to conservation work and determining guidelines for responsible ocean use.

Read the full article about protecting and defending oceans at Charity Navigator

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    In our work to identify the most effective ways to help animals, ACE employs both qualitative and quantitative strategies. One way that we evaluate programs (or groups of programs) quantitatively is by assigning numerical values to their immediate costs and benefits in order to model their cost effectiveness. There are a few reasons why the conclusions we draw from animal advocacy research are often highly uncertain: There are still relatively few studies investigating the impact of any given intervention. Animal advocacy research is often underfunded, which may lead researchers to choose small sample sizes, resulting in studies that lack the necessary statistical power to detect the effects in which we are interested. Perhaps because of funding limitations (and perhaps because of lack of expertise), animal advocacy researchers sometimes choose not to use control groups—which may limit the causal conclusions that can be drawn from their research. Animal advocacy researchers are often invested in particular outcomes. For example, they may desire to find that particular interventions are effective. As a result, animal advocacy research may be subject to various sorts of bias. Animal advocacy researchers are often unable to directly measure the outcomes in which they are most interested, such as changes in participants’ behavior. Research on the effects of animal advocacy interventions often relies on data that is self-reported by participants. Self-reported data is subject to social desirability bias and other sources of error. Assigning numbers to uncertain values allows us to be clear about the effects we expect an intervention to have. It allows our readers to identify specific points on which they may disagree. If our evaluations were entirely qualitative in nature, it might be harder for people who disagree with us about the effectiveness of a program to pinpoint the source of their disagreement, since our qualitative statements are more open to interpretation than our quantitative ones. Read the source article at Animal Charity Evaluators


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