Non-profit Entrepreneur - Charity Entrepreneurship Incubation Program

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 as efficiently as possible.

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 September 21st - 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 50 organisations launched, collectively reaching over 75 million people and improving the lives of more than 1 billion animals through their work. What we need is great founders to start more of these field-leading non-profits.

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, farmed animal welfare and newborn mortality. We then find people like you with the talent and drive to make the world a better place to build incredible new organisations. Think startup incubators, 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 and most rigorous evaluators of charitable work - from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to USAID, GiveWell, Founders Pledge, Mulago, Open Philanthropy, and Animal Charity Evaluators. 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 35 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:

Spring cohort: Feb 9 - Apr 5, 2026

Summer cohort: Aug - Sep, 2026 (exact dates TBC)

Application Deadline: Sep 21, 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.

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We value candidates who:

• Aspire to lead: You should have the potential to be an effective organizational leader, able to create structure and clarity in the face of uncertainty.
• Think evidence-first: You’re willing to adapt your approach based on evidence and focus on impactful priorities, like global health or animal welfare.
• Strive for excellence: You have a track record of pursuing and achieving outstanding results, aiming to build something exceptional rather than just good.
• Dream big: You’re ambitious about creating large-scale impact and are dedicated to maximizing the good you can do in the world.
• Stay flexible: You’re open to exploring diverse ideas and solutions and are comfortable working in varied contexts, including low- and middle-income countries.

Funding & Stipend

This is a fully funded training program with no fees. Participants receive a stipend of approximately £1,900 per month, with flexibility for those who may need more (or less) support based on their personal circumstances.

Post-Program Salary: After the program, founder salaries depend on the seed funding secured, generally ranging from £100,000 to £150,000. Most founders set their own salaries between £30,000 and £45,000 GBP, depending on individual financial needs.

CHARITY IDEAS for February 2026 Cohort:

• Air quality monitoring & transparency meta-charity
• Training to improve the energy efficiency of brick kilns
• Boosting access to asset-collateralized loans for small-scale farms
• Targeted Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene Mobile Health Interventions
• Working with large food retailers to achieve plant-based-protein sale commitments
• Securing scale-up funding for the alternative protein industry
• Cage-free farming in the Middle East
• Reducing keel bone fractures in the egg industry

Please note that while we accept applications for both the February and August cohort, these ideas are confirmed for the February 2026 cohort only.

Want to learn more?

Read more about these ideas here & Register for the Q&A Webinar with our Senior Research Manager, Vicky Cox!

Applications to our program are open until September 21st.

Not sure if you’re the right fit? The best way to find out is to submit our initial application form, which is designed to help you explore your fit with our program as well as the non-profit entrepreneurship career path.

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:

Sign up for online information and Q&A sessions here

Learn more about our program here

Read about the recommended charity ideas here

Learn more about the application process here