Anthropic Launches $150 Million Fellowship to Seed AI Talent at Nonprofits

The organizations feeding families, rehousing refugees and supporting veterans do not typically have artificial intelligence engineers on staff.

Anthropic is betting $150 million that placing them there for a year changes something durable.

Claude Corps is a national fellowship program that embeds early-career workers inside nonprofits across the United States for 12 months, Anthropic said in a Thursday (June 11) press release. Fellows are trained on Anthropic’s Claude tools, matched with host organizations, and paid a full-time salary for the duration.

The program runs as a three-way partnership, the release said. CodePath, the largest collegiate computer science education nonprofit in the country, serves as the employer of record and runs weekly training throughout each placement. Social Finance, a nonprofit and registered investment advisor, leads measurement and will build the financial structure needed if the program scales.

The first cohort of 100 fellows begins in October, and applications close July 17. Two additional cohorts will follow in January and August 2027, with rolling applications open for both. Anyone older than 18 with less than two years of full-time work experience is eligible, regardless of educational background, according to the release.

Anthropic expects at least 400 nonprofits to participate over the next year, the release said. Host organizations already confirmed include a food bank, a veteran support program, marine conservation, workforce development and more.

The premise of the program is that the gap between AI’s potential and its actual reach is partly a talent problem. Nonprofits serving the populations most exposed to economic disruption from AI are also the least equipped to deploy it. Claude Corps is structured around the idea that sending trained people in, rather than just offering tools or grants, is what produces lasting organizational capacity.

Anthropic said it plans to scale the program beyond 1,000 fellows, open-source the core infrastructure so others can build similar initiatives, and eventually extend the model to other countries. The company released a policy framework alongside the announcement addressing AI’s broader impact on work.

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