Anthropic is 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. Anthropic will 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, Anthropic is 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.
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.
Responsibilities
- Discover and scope. Spend real time understanding what your host organization actually needs. Pull usage data, talk to the people doing the work, and define projects in sprints with clear outcomes.
- Build with Claude. Ship working solutions — agents, automations, internal tools, evaluation harnesses, integrations — that make a process faster, cheaper, or possible for the first time. Some of this will be ambitious; some will be a dashboard or a tracker that just needs to exist.
- Enable the organization. Run trainings for mixed technical and non-technical audiences. Turn three or four colleagues into the people others go to with AI questions. Your job isn't done when the tool works — it's done when someone else can own it.
- Hand off well. Sit with the person who'll own your work after you leave. Watch them break it. Write the runbook. Make sure it survives you.
- Exercise judgment. Catch your own wrong answers. Tell a stakeholder "we shouldn't build that" when it's true. Cut the part of the demo that isn't landing.
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Claude Corps Fellowship Fellowship
Aim and Benefits of Claude Corps Fellowship Fellowship
- A full-time salary of $85,000 and benefits for the fellowship year, plus Claude API and tooling access
- Relocation support for Fellows placed more than 100 miles from their current residence
- A onboarding bootcamp with Anthropic before you start at your host
- Dedicated support, regular cohort sessions with other Fellows, and direct access to Anthropic engineers through office hours
- A portfolio entry that's still running six months after you leave, and incredible references to go with it
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.
Claude Corps Fellowship Fellowship Courses
Requirements for Claude Corps Fellowship Fellowship Qualification
- Completion of both AI Fluency and Claude 101 is required. Proof of completion must be submitted with your application.
- Are 18 or older with less than two years of professional work experience — we care about what you've done and how you think, not your degree
- Have built something end-to-end on your own — a project, tool, or automation you scoped, shipped, and can talk about honestly, including what you'd do differently
- Have a genuine, demonstrated pull toward social-impact work — you've spent real time in or around nonprofits, public service, education, health, or community organizations, and can articulate why
- Take initiative without a PM tracking you, and stay coachable while doing it
- Can explain something technical to a non-technical room and read whether it's landing
- Are energized — not deflated — by ambiguity, resource constraints, and problems that turn out to be different than advertised
- Are authorized to work in the United States (we are not able to sponsor visas for this program) and open to relocation within the US to work in person at a host organization
Strong Candidates May Also Have
- Experience shipping inside a small team or organization where you wore multiple hats
- A track record of teaching, mentoring, or running workshops for non-technical audiences
- Domain exposure in one of our host sectors (public health, education, workforce, civic tech, social services)
- Experience with agent frameworks, evals, or production LLM deployments
Interview date, Process and Venue for Claude Corps Fellowship Fellowship
- A short application with a couple of written questions → a practical take-home assessment → a 25-minute conversation → a final-round Super Day, consisting of two 1:1 conversations.
Check also:
Erasmus Mundus Scholarship 2027
Global Korea Scholarship 2027
Application Deadline
July 17, 2026How to Apply
- 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.
- 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.
For more information, kindly visit Claude Corps Fellowship webpage.
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