We’re launching Claude Corps, a national fellowship program for people early in their careers who are passionate about extending the benefits of AI to communities across America.
We’ll teach 1,000 fellows how to use Claude well, match them with nonprofits across America, and pay them to spend a year—full-time, in-person—helping host organizations to advance their missions. Our goals are twofold: that host organizations are equipped with valuable tools and systems, and fellows build AI skills that will serve them in their careers.
The benefits of transformative AI systems could come at the cost of significant disruption. The companies building this technology have a responsibility to make sure the benefits are fully realized and widely shared, and to invest directly in the workers absorbing the change. As such, we’re committing an initial $150m to this program.
If Claude Corps works, we'll have a foundation for something much larger: a model for widening AI's benefits during a period of vast economic change. We’re announcing Claude Corps alongside our policy framework for addressing AI's impact on work.
How Claude Corps works
Claude Corps is set up as a partnership between three organizations. Anthropic will fund the program, lead its overall strategy, and provide Claude expertise. CodePath, an Anthropic nonprofit partner and America’s largest provider of collegiate computer science education, will act as the fellows’ official employer of record and lead programming during the fellowship. Social Finance, a nonprofit and registered investment advisor, will lead measurement and evaluation, and will build a longer-term financial vehicle to enable the program to scale.
The fellow experience
Each fellowship lasts for 12 months. At the beginning of the program, Anthropic and CodePath will provide intensive training on using Claude in nonprofit settings. After being placed, fellows will receive five hours of ongoing training each week, with the remainder of their time dedicated to their host organization.
Fellows will receive a full-time salary of $85,000 and benefits, support from a CodePath mentor, office hours from Anthropic for their technical questions, an expansive Claude token budget, and professional guidance from their manager at the host organization.
Over the next 12 months, at least 400 nonprofits will host Claude Corps Fellows. Host organizations include:
- Braven (Chicago, Illinois). A nonprofit teaching first-generation and lower-income students how to land a strong first job.
- Code the Dream (Durham, North Carolina). A nonprofit that provides free coding education and paid software apprenticeships to people seeking the skills they need to build a better life.
- Heartland Forward (Bentonville, Arkansas). A nonpartisan think-and-do tank focused on accelerating economic growth in the American heartland.
- Montgomery County Food Bank (Conroe, Texas). A food bank that feeds children, seniors, and families north of Houston through more than 100 local pantries and partner agencies.
- Team Red, White & Blue (Floyds Knobs, Indiana). A nonprofit that supports veteran health and wellness through events and programs focused on building a healthy lifestyle.
- Reef Environmental Education Foundation (Key Largo, Florida). A marine conservation nonprofit that conducts underwater surveys to protect reefs.
- SoundOff (San Antonio, Texas). A nonprofit that provides anonymous access to licensed counselors and peer support for Service Members.
- StriveTogether (Cincinnati, Ohio). A national nonprofit that supports local partnerships to change the way their communities work together, using data, to help young people thrive.
- YMCA of Greater Charlotte (Charlotte, North Carolina). The local Y across the Charlotte region, with 14 Centers, three program facilities, and two overnight camps serving nearly 300,000 kids, families, and seniors a year.
You can hear more from our hosts below:
In 70 communities across the US, we’re working to put more young people on a path to economic opportunity. That requires constantly tracking, analyzing, and sharing data and on-the-ground insights so the strategies that work in one place can take root everywhere. AI changes that equation. With our Claude Corps fellow, we’ll be able to do analysis to connect the dots at a pace that was unimaginable in the past. This sort of dedicated technical talent enables us to move faster on work that directly benefits the millions of young people we serve.
Goodwill Industries International is participating in Claude Corps to help us bridge the gap between AI's potential and its responsible, real-world application. We look forward to learning from peers, sharing our experience and gaining insights that will drive meaningful impact across our work.
Team Red, White & Blue has always innovated with technology to enrich veterans’ lives. AI is reshaping the landscape we operate in, and we’re investing in the tools that will define how we deliver our mission for the next decade. For Team RWB, community is the solution. Claude Corps fellows will help us scale it with data, automation, and personalization.
Hunger doesn’t wait, and neither can innovation. Food banks need to be as forward-thinking in how we solve problems as we are committed to the people we serve. Claude Corps applies AI talent where it makes an immediate difference, from understanding donors and distribution forecasting to turning data into faster decisions for families counting on us.
Heartland Forward is committed to ensuring the 20 states in the middle of the country are prepared for an economy that’s changing because of artificial intelligence. From recent graduates to late-career professionals, having the AI skills and knowledge to advance economically has never been more important. Our partnership with Anthropic and Claude Corps helps ensure that the heartland workforce is setting the pace in harnessing the transformative power of AI for good.
At RAINN, the time our team spends on technical infrastructure is time away from helping survivors. Claude Corps will help us expand our secure, private tools for survivors faster, so our staff can focus on what only humans can do: supporting victims in crisis. We aren’t replacing human connection. We’re protecting it.
REEF is excited about the potential for AI to help scale ocean conservation, citizen science, and public engagement. As a grassroots nonprofit managing large marine datasets and conservation technology projects, Claude Corps gives us an opportunity to build tools and workflows that would otherwise be out of reach for a small but highly impactful team.
At MyFriendBen, we are a small team tackling big public benefits challenges, and we’re always looking for ways to do more with less. Claude Corps gives us the chance to build real AI capacity within our organization—not just a one-time fix, but lasting skills and workflows that will help us serve our community more effectively for years to come. I know this initiative is going to bring energy and learning to our organization and encourage young, talented folks to support nonprofits and growing teams.
AI is reshaping the labor market, and with deep intentionality, it can help level the economic playing field for first-generation and low-income college students. Braven is proud to join Claude Corps’ inaugural cohort to accelerate AI literacy for our fellows, build capacity, and shape how higher education and employers approach the future of entry-level work.
AI can help us solve urgent problems facing our communities. Claude Corps fellows will make a real difference in the lives of people served by Code the Dream-built technology—students, families seeking healthcare, and farmworkers who keep food on our tables.
At Year Up United, we believe AI must be both a workforce skill and organizational capability. This partnership reflects our mission in action and will help expand our impact as we adapt to a rapidly changing job market. Claude Corps will strengthen operations, enhance the student journey, and accelerate AI impact.
Governments and community organizations trust Code for America because we keep people at the center of everything we do, and we’ve spent years earning that trust. We’re excited to welcome Claude Corps fellows who can share our passion for using responsible AI to solve public service challenges and deliver meaningful, measurable impact.
Claude Corps matters because the YMCA serves millions of people, and our staff deserve tools that give them time back for human connection. Fellows can help us move from one-off AI wins to scalable, values-aligned adoption across associations, especially in staff onboarding, program design, and translating community insight into action.
PCV unlocks economic opportunity and climate resilience for small businesses and workers in underestimated communities, and therefore any AI use must have unshakeable ethical foundations. Claude Corps fellows will help strengthen our predictive underwriting models and improve the accuracy of our LLM-powered survey tools. The learnings that emerge will help frontier labs and impact firms alike center human agency.
This initiative gives us the chance to embed engineering talent alongside teams serving people in war and crisis to drive meaningful transformation. From streamlining operations to building AI-powered services that reach people faster and more effectively, Claude Corps fellows can help us rethink how humanitarian organizations deliver impact at scale at the last mile.
Sound Off exists to leverage technology to scale care to thousands who wouldn’t otherwise engage. Looking to tech first is in our bones—all the more vital as philanthropic dollars stay finite. We’ve invested in AI since these models emerged. Working with Claude Corps to enhance our pace of software development, automate organizational management, and broadly support our small team—all the while holding costs flat—is a tremendous opportunity for us to impact veterans’ mental health.
Applications and timeline
Fellowship applications are open today, and will close on July 17th for the first cohort of 100, which begins in October 2026. Applications are open on a rolling basis for the next two cohorts, which begin in January 2027 and August 2027. Anyone over 18 with under two years of full-time work experience is welcome to apply, regardless of educational background. The only requirements are that you’re authorized to work in the US, are comfortable working with Claude, and are willing to relocate if necessary. (Relocation support is available as needed.)
Host organization applications are also open today for all cohort start dates. For more information about criteria for hosting and what’s involved, see the Claude Corps website.
What’s next
Our ambition is for this program to scale far beyond 1,000 fellows, as we’ve outlined above. We'll be rigorously measuring the extent to which host organizations have advanced their missions, as well as how fellows develop their skills and career prospects, to understand how Claude Corps should evolve. We plan to open-source some of the core technology and infrastructure that enables this program to work, so that others can build out similar initiatives towards what could be a large-scale nationwide effort. And, we’d like to build a model that can be replicated in other countries outside the US.