We’re launching Claude Corps, a national fellowship program for early-career people who are passionate about spreading the benefits of AI to communities across the country.
We will teach 1,000 Fellows how to use Claude well, match them with nonprofit organizations across the country, and pay them to spend a year full-time, in-person, helping host organizations advance their missions. Our goals are twofold. One is to equip the host organization with valuable tools and systems to help fellows build AI skills that will help them in their careers.
The benefits of innovative AI systems may come with significant disruption. The companies building this technology have a responsibility to ensure its benefits are fully realized and widely shared, and to invest directly in the workers who will absorb the change. That’s why we’re putting an initial $150 million into this program.
If Claude’s Army works, it will provide the foundation for something much bigger: a model that scales the benefits of AI during major economic changes. We are announcing Claude Corps with a policy framework to address the impact of AI on jobs.
How Claude’s army works
Claude Corps was established as a partnership between three organizations. Anthropic will fund the program, lead the overall strategy and provide expertise to Claude. CodePath, Anthropic’s nonprofit partner and America’s largest provider of university computer science education, will serve as the fellow’s official employer of record and lead programming during the fellowship. Social Finance, a not-for-profit registered investment advisor, will lead the measurement and evaluation, building a long-term financial vehicle that will enable the program to scale.
peer experience
Each fellowship lasts 12 months. At the beginning of the program, Anthropic and CodePath will provide intensive training on using Claude in a nonprofit environment. After placement, fellows receive five hours of ongoing training each week, with the remaining time devoted to their host organization.
Fellows receive a full-time salary of $85,000 plus benefits, support from CodePath mentors, office hours from Anthropic for technical questions, a generous Claude Token budget, and expert guidance from their host organization’s managers.
Over the next 12 months, at least 400 nonprofit organizations will accept Claude Corps Fellows. Host organizations include:
- Braven (Chicago, IL). A nonprofit that teaches first-generation and low-income students how to secure their first job.
- Code the Dream (Durham, North Carolina). A nonprofit organization that provides free coding education and paid software apprenticeships to people seeking the skills they need to build a better life.
- Heartland Forward (Bentonville, AR). A bipartisan thought tank focused on accelerating economic growth in America’s heartland.
- Montgomery County Food Bank (Conroe, Texas). A food bank that provides meals to children, seniors, and families in north Houston through more than 100 local pantries and partner agencies.
- Team Red, White and Blue (Floyd Knobbs, Indiana). A nonprofit organization that supports the health and wellness of veterans through events and programs focused on building healthy lifestyles.
- Coral Reef Environmental Education Foundation (Key Largo, Florida). A marine conservation nonprofit organization that conducts underwater research to protect coral reefs.
- SoundOff (San Antonio, Texas). Nonprofit organization that provides anonymous access to licensed counselors and peer support to service members.
- StriveTogether (Cincinnati, Ohio). A national nonprofit organization that supports local partnerships that use data to change the way communities work together to support youth development.
- YMCA of Greater Charlotte (Charlotte, North Carolina). The Local Y in the Charlotte area has 14 centers, three program facilities and two overnight camps, serving approximately 300,000 children, families and seniors annually.
You can hear more from the host below.
In 70 communities across the United States, we are working to put more young people on the path to economic opportunity. This requires continuous tracking, analysis, and sharing of data and field insights to ensure a strategy that works in one place takes root everywhere. AI changes that equation. Together with your fellow members of Claude’s Army, you’ll be able to connect the dots and analyze at a pace previously unimaginable. These dedicated technical talent enable us to move quickly on work that directly benefits the millions of young people we serve.
Goodwill Industries International is joining Claude Corps to bridge the gap between the potential of AI and its responsible real-world application. We look forward to learning from our colleagues, sharing experiences, and gaining insights that meaningfully impact our work overall.
Team Red, White and Blue has always innovated technology to enrich the lives of veterans. AI is reshaping the environment in which we operate, and we are investing in tools that will define how we deliver on our mission for the next decade. For Team RWB, community is the solution. Claude Corps fellows will help us scale up with data, automation, and personalization.
Hunger doesn’t wait, and neither can innovation. Food banks need to be as proactive about how they solve problems as they are about the people they serve. Claude Corps leverages AI talent in areas that make an immediate difference, from understanding donors and predicting distributions to transforming data into faster decision-making for the families who depend on us.
Heartland Forward is working to ensure 20 states in the nation’s central region are prepared for an economy transformed by artificial intelligence. From new graduates to late-stage professionals, it’s more important than ever to have the AI skills and knowledge to advance financially. Our partnership with Anthropic and Claude Corps will ensure our core workforce sets the pace in harnessing the transformative power of AI for good.
At RAINN, the time the team spends on technology infrastructure takes away from the time they spend helping survivors. Claude Corps will help us scale secure, private tools for survivors more quickly, allowing our staff to focus on what only humans can do: assisting victims in crisis. We don’t replace relationships. we are keeping it.
REEF is excited about the potential for AI to help expand ocean conservation, citizen science, and public engagement. As a grassroots nonprofit that manages large ocean datasets and conservation technology projects, Claude Corps gives us the opportunity to build tools and workflows that are beyond the reach of small but highly influential teams.
MyFriendBen is a small team tackling big public interest challenges, always looking for ways to do more with less. Claude Corps gives you the opportunity to build true AI capabilities within your organization. This is not a one-time solution, but lasting skills and workflows that will help you serve your community more effectively for years to come. I believe this initiative will bring energy and learning to our organization and encourage young and talented people to support our nonprofits and growing teams.
AI is reshaping the labor market and, with deep intent, will help level the economic playing field for first-generation and low-income college students. Braven is proud to join the first cohort of Claude Corps to accelerate the AI literacy of our peers, build capacity, and shape how higher education and employers approach the future of entry-level jobs.
AI can help solve urgent problems facing communities. Claude Corps Fellows will make a real difference in the lives of those served by the technology Code the Dream builds: students, families seeking health care, and farm workers who put food on the table.
At Year Up United, we believe that AI needs to be both an employee skill and an organizational capability. This partnership puts our mission into practice and helps us expand our impact as we adapt to a rapidly changing job market. Claude Corps strengthens operations, enhances student journeys, and accelerates impact in AI.
Code for America is trusted by government and community organizations. Because we put people at the center of everything we do and have spent years earning their trust. We look forward to welcoming Claude Corps Fellows who share our passion for using responsible AI to solve public service challenges and deliver meaningful and measurable impact.
Claude Squad is important because the YMCA serves millions of people and staff need tools that give them time to build relationships. Fellows will help move from one-time AI wins to scalable, values-aligned adoption across the association, especially in staff onboarding, program design, and turning community insights into action.
PCV unlocks economic opportunity and climate resilience for small businesses and workers in underrepresented communities, so the use of AI requires a firm ethical foundation. Claude Corps fellows will help strengthen our predictive underwriting models and improve the accuracy of our LLM-powered research tools. New insights will help frontier research institutions and similarly impact companies that center human agency.
This initiative provides an opportunity to embed engineering talent into teams serving people in war and crisis to drive meaningful change. From streamlining operations to building AI-powered services that reach people faster and more effectively, Claude Corps Fellows help humanitarian organizations reimagine how they can make an impact at scale in the last mile.
Sound Off exists to leverage technology to extend care to thousands of people who would otherwise not be involved. Putting technology first is in our bones. This is all the more important because philanthropic funds are finite. We’ve been investing in AI since these models came out. Working with Claude’s Corps to increase the pace of software development, automate organizational management, and broadly support small teams while keeping costs constant is a huge opportunity for us to impact the mental health of veterans.
Application and timeline
Applications for the fellowship open today and close on July 17 for the first 100-person cohort starting in October 2026. Applications will be accepted on a rolling basis for the next two cohorts starting in January 2027 and August 2027. Anyone over the age of 18 and with less than two years of full-time work experience can apply, regardless of educational background. The only requirements are that you are authorized to work in the United States, that you are comfortable working with Claude, and that you are willing to relocate if necessary. (Relocation support is also available if necessary.)
Applications for host organizations are now being accepted starting today for all cohort start dates. To learn more about our hosting standards and what they include, please visit the Claude Corps website.
what’s next
Our goal is for this program to grow well beyond 1,000 Fellows, as outlined above. We will rigorously measure how far our host organizations are advancing their mission and how our Fellows are developing 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 function, allowing other companies to build similar efforts for large-scale national efforts. And we want to build a model that can be replicated in countries other than the United States.
