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Both have a case. Local giving builds durable community capacity; global giving usually reaches far more animals per unit of funding because of where farming volume and funding gaps sit. Many people split deliberately between the two.

On a strict animals-per-dollar basis they are expensive. They also provide the direct evidence, education and public witness that campaigns depend on, which per-animal metrics do not measure. Consider them a different budget line rather than a worse one.

Look for a number, a denominator and a date, then see whether an independent evaluator or the organisation's own follow-up report confirms implementation.

Specialised skills — legal, data, translation, design, accounting — are chronically undersupplied and often worth more than the equivalent cash. General volunteering is valuable but rarely the constraint.

They can be effective but carry the specific risk of coding animal welfare as a partisan issue, which historically reduces cross-spectrum support for the underlying policies.

A small recurring amount you will not reconsider beats a large one you regret. Consistency is worth more to an organisation's planning than size.