Apply for the Charity Founder Entrepreneurship Incubation Program

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Are you looking for an opportunity to make a huge difference in the world, improving the lives of millions? Launch your own charity through our fully-funded program and lead your own project dedicated to solving some of the biggest problems in the world. 

Too many charity jobs focus on work that doesn’t seem to make a real difference to people’s lives, focusing more on fundraising and impressive communication than on truly solving big problems.

Our two-month Charity Entrepreneurship Incubation Program gives you the training, funding, and mentorship you need to launch your own organisation dedicated to tackling global inequalities at scale.

Applications are open until March 24th - for more information, visit our website or attend one of our online information sessions.

About Charity Entrepreneurship

Great charity work is one of the most direct and effective ways we can improve the world. Yet recent research showed something incredible: the best charities are more than 100 times more effective than average ones. At Charity Entrepreneurship, we’re on a mission to launch more of these very best charities that make a transformative difference in the world. We have a proven model, with more than 40 organisations launched and 35 million people reached through their work. What we need is great founders to start more of these field-leading projects.

Our research team spends more than 5,000 hours a year identifying new solutions to tackling some of the biggest problems in the world - from improving education quality and job opportunities for people living in poverty to reducing environmental pollution and rates of newborn mortality. We then find people like you with a drive to make the world a better place and the talent to build incredible new organisations. Think startups, but solely focused on making the world a better place.

Within a few years of launching, our charities have been recognised as some of the very best in the world and supported by many of the biggest funders of charitable work - from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to USAID and GiveWell. To take one example, the Lead Exposure Elimination Project (LEEP) was founded through our program in 2021 by Lucia Coulter and Jack Rafferty - a former doctor and former consultant - with just £50,000 in funding. LEEP now operates in more than 20 countries, partnering with governments from Malawi to Pakistan. Their work is projected to save 46 million children from lead paint exposure over the coming decades.

About the program

Our program was designed by experts who successfully launched their own field-leading charities from scratch. We teach you everything you need to know to do the same - from evidence reviews to intervention design to operations - through applied, cohort-based learning. By the end of the program, you’ll have matched with a co-founder and submitted a funding proposal for your very own nonprofit.

Program Details

Program Dates: August 11 - October 3, 2025 (February - March, 2026)

Application Deadline: March 24, 2025

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What we offer

• 2-month full-time online training with 2 weeks in-person in London (transport and accommodation costs covered).
• Zero fees, with a stipend of £1,900 per month during (and potentially up to 2 months after) the program
• Matching you to a talented cofounder to lead your organisation with
• An average of £100,000 in seed funding for each organisation we launch
• Initial operations support and ongoing mentorship
• Co-working space in our London office
• A community of previous founders, mentors, and potential donors to help you succeed

We encourage anyone with a drive to direct their work to producing real, positive change to apply. There are no mandatory skills or experience - we’ve had founders from every continent, from twenty to mid-fifties, and from almost every type of prior job you can think of. Some of the world’s most successful for-profit founders had no prior experience. Our experience training charity founders suggests the same applies to the non-profit world.

CHARITY IDEAS for August 2025 Cohort:

Livelihood-Focused Nonprofit Evaluator

Differentiated Learning for Foundational Education

Kangaroo Care for Low-Birth-Weight Babies

Advocacy for Used Lead-Acid Battery Recycling Regulation

Using Communication to Improve Learning Outcomes

Want to learn more? 

Read about them here & Register for the Q&A Webinar with our Research Director!

Applications to our program are open until March 24th.

Not sure if you’re the right fit? The best way to find out is to submit our initial application form.

We’re also hosting a series of online information sessions - about the program, our research, and what it’s like to found your own organisation - that we encourage you to attend to learn more in the run-up to the application deadline.

Useful links:

Learn more about our program here

Read about the recommended charity ideas here

Learn more about the application process here