Cage-free campaigns took animals a long way. But the "what comes next" pipeline for reducing animal suffering is thin (full take here). 

That's why the upcoming round of the Charity Entrepreneurship Incubation Program is (for the first time in our 50-org track record) for animals only. 

Application deadline: September 13th

A fully cost-covered 8-week program from February 1, 2027. You get a co-founder, a frontier problem to work on, training from people who have built field-leading charities, and a seed grant to launch. Mostly online, with 2 weeks in London and San Francisco, travel covered and stipends from $5,000 a month. Then, a funded 3-month exploration phase to land on your solution before you pitch for funding. Apply from anywhere in the world. 

Founders won't be handed a narrowly specified idea. You’ll be presented with frontier problems: problem spaces where funders and industry want a fix but nobody has built one. Our research team is currently reviewing 100+ candidate problems, spanning welfare tech, breeding, research infrastructure, talent, and finding the next neglected population the size of farmed shrimp. Check out five frontier problems we're currently excited about.

Not sure if you'd be great at this or if you're interested? We think the quickest way to test this is to submit a shortened 15-30 minute application form. 

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Questions? Contact: [email protected]

Our current hypothesis is that we’d most likely match this person with a generalist during the program (just like the other non-specialist founders). However, since this is something new that we're testing out, we are also open to exploring different scenarios, including solo founding or potentially hiring two specialist founders for the same ideas if they have exceptional skill fit with each other. It will largely depend on the talent pool.

Applications for the Charity Entrepreneurship Incubation Program are open until midnight Sunday 22nd March. Start your application with this 30-45-minute application form. Note: For the September 2026 cohort, we're only accepting applications from applicants who don't already have their own idea for the next best GH&D org. Check out the list of intervention ideas we're currently most excited about seeing incubated here. If you can't find answers to your question on our website, please introduce yourself at [email protected]

Ambitious Impact announced a new executive team to lead our scaling efforts in our new chapter. Read the full update here.

We are also excited to announce that application for the September 2026 & February 2027 cohorts of the Charity Entrepreneurship Program is now open. Learn more here.  Apply before March 22nd. 

More information about the recommended ideas will follow in the coming weeks!

Final Call: AIM CEO Applications Close August 10th

We're in the final days of our search for AIM's next CEO. If you've been considering applying or know someone who might be a great fit, now is the time to act.

Application deadline: August 10th

We're looking for a strategic leader to shape the future of an organization that has launched 50+ high-impact charities and moved millions in funding. This is a unique opportunity to guide AIM through its next phase of growth and scale our impact.

Location: London preferred, or remote with at least 3 months per year in London.

As we mentioned in our original post: some of the people we most admire have said "Let me know if you don't find anyone, then I might consider it." We understand the hesitation, but we can only consider candidates who go through the application process.

We encourage you to apply if you think this might be a fit for you. If you know someone who could excel in this role, please recommend them.

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Questions? Contact: [email protected]

It does not change our plans to incubate this charity. 

Hi Everyone, 
As Charity Entrepreneurship we just want to make sure people understand how our Incubation Program works in terms of setting up co-founder salaries after the program.

1. Most importantly, CE does not determine, dictate, grant, or pay out salaries. We pay a stipend to cover costs of living during the Program (and for up to two months after in case an incubatee does not end up founding for whatever reason). Once graduated, our alumni set their own salaries.
2. In week 5 of our program, we suggest co-founder and idea pairings to the participants that most (not all) decide to accept and move forward with for the last 3 weeks of the Program.
3. Our incubatees graduate our Program at the end of the 2-month Incubation Program by submitting their own project proposals to the Seed Network. We give them feedback on their proposals to help make them as good as possible, but all decisions including their budget, salaries, and fundraising asks are their own. They are now independent co-founders and executive directors of their own charity.
4. To set their salaries the incubatees work out their needs, the budget of their fledgling organizations, and how much they think they can and should raise in the space they are fundraising in, as well as how this affects their cost-effectiveness and chances of success going forward. E.g., potential future funders outside the Seed Network will look at the budget and cost-effectiveness of a charity’s first year. All funders want the most bang for their buck, and if there are benchmarks like AMF, donating instead to a 2nd year organization can look very different levels of impactful depending on how much it cost.
5. CE does not decide who gets funding and how much. The Seed Network consists of about 30 individual grantmakers who make up their own minds. They sometimes decide to interview co-founders and/or ask CE for our impressions of the strengths and weaknesses of different teams, but how to use their funds is entirely their own choice.
6. After the Seed Network has announced their decisions, they transfer the money straight to the founders. The founders then set and draw their own salaries from the funds that they managed to raise. We have no control over the money.
7. We have had charities that launched with seed grants of as little as $25,000, $30,000 or $50,000. Their founders were confident they would fundraise more money after the launch outside of the CE Seed Network (i.e., from sources with better counterfactuals). We have had charities that sought seed funding for their entire first year and raised as much as $240,000 for two-person co-founder teams. Some of our founders have kids, cars, mortgages, and travel costs to consider. Others don’t and can target smaller seed grants.
8. At CE, frugality is one of the things we encourage because one of our core values is looking at money and other resources in counterfactuals. This is because in a space like Global Health & Development, we are very aware of what the counterfactuals of money are - all money that we use could instead have gone to AMF or other GiveWell top charities to counterfactually save more lives; similarly for the animal space. We think the most impactful thing to do in setting salaries is to cover people’s needs in order for them to live a good life, generously construed, but not much more. That is not what we work for.
9. Finally, there are differences about what exactly the right range of salaries is in our community, and salaries vary. This is natural and healthy. However, most people lean frugal compared to the current standard in EA.

Fixed, thank you :)