The Charity Entrepreneurship Incubation Program at AIM fosters charitable impact by researching, training, and incubating effective charities.
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.
The CEIP 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:
As of 2023, Charity Entrepreneurship has helped to launch over 30 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:
We have varying degrees of information about the cost-effectiveness of our supported programs. We have more information about programs that impact-focused evaluators (some of which our research team expects to investigate soon as part of their evaluator investigations) have looked into, as well as programs that we’ve previously included on our list of recommended charities. We think it’s important to share the information we have with donors as we expect it will be useful in their donation decisions, but don’t want donors to mistakenly overweight the extent to which we share information about some charities and not others. Therefore, we want to clarify two things: