Charity Entrepreneurship

What problem is Charity Entrepreneurship working on?

Only a small number of nonprofits are founded based on rigorous evidence and research. As a result, many problems go unidentified and unaddressed, and many talented individuals lack high-impact career opportunities.

What does Charity Entrepreneurship do?

Charity Entrepreneurship aims to strengthen the NGO sector by launching multiple new charities annually based on effective altruist principles.

It achieves this through an extensive research process that identifies high-impact, evidence-based ways to reduce suffering and a cost-covered Incubation Program that helps aspiring entrepreneurs launch these interventions. Its focus areas include health and development policy, mental health, family planning, and animal advocacy, and EA meta.

How it works:

• Each year, Charity Entrepreneurship puts thousands of research hours into identifying the most promising charity ideas. Its key criteria: highly cost-effective and ready to launch.
• It recruits aspiring entrepreneurs and, through its two-month Incubation Program, provides them with the training and funding to turn these ideas into high-impact organisations.
• It offers seed grants of up to $200,000, legal support, and ongoing mentorship to launch the most promising charities.
• Its ecosystem of researchers, volunteers, donors, and mentors enables these new charities to move quickly and achieve impact.

As of 2022, Charity Entrepreneurship has helped to launch 23 charities. These charities have already fundraised over $20 million USD and been recognised by top grantmakers like GiveWell, EA Funds, and Open Philanthropy. For example:

• Fortify Health has secured multiple GiveWell grants and has a 25% chance of joining GiveWell’s list of the world’s top charities.
• Suvita is helping over 200,000 caregivers in India and has been supported by Founders Pledge and Mulago Foundation.
• Shrimp Welfare Project has received grants from EA Funds Animal Welfare Fund and Animal Charity Evaluators Movement Grants fund.
• Lead Exposure Elimination Project is one of Giving What We Can's top charities and is recommended by Founders Pledge.

What evidence is there of Charity Entrepreneurship’s effectiveness?

Charity Entrepreneurship meets our criteria to be listed on our platform because:

• Our research team believes it is doing impactful work across multiple high-impact causes.
• Some of its incubated charities have since been supported by our trusted evaluators (for example, Suvita is now one of our top-rated charities based on analysis conducted by Founders Pledge).
• To our knowledge, Charity Entrepreneurship has not yet been directly evaluated by any of our trusted evaluators. (Our trusted evaluators are charitable giving experts who focus on impact — their research into the best charities means your donations can do even more good. Learn more about charity evaluators we trust and why.)

All the above mean that we believe Charity Entrepreneurship meets our criteria as an organisation doing "highly promising work in a high-impact cause area, but hasn’t been evaluated yet." See our inclusion criteria.

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