Our mission is to cause more effective charities to exist in the world by connecting talented individuals with high-impact intervention opportunities. We achieve this through an extensive research process and our Incubation Program.
Charity Entrepreneurship (CE) believes that starting a high-impact charity can prevent
​ immense amounts of suffering by:​
  • Redirecting millions of dollars in a more impactful direction
  • Providing governments with data to run national- or state-level program
  • Attracting donors from a broader spectrum of spaces and interests
  • Shaping an entire cause area by raising the bar for effective charities
  • Creating an opportunity for talented individuals to get invested in the field
  • Providing a valuable learning opportunity that can enhance the whole movement​
It is also a highly neglected career opportunity that, fueled by a more analytical effective-altruist mindset, can lead to cost-effective, evidence-based outcomes that are approximately equivalent to $215,000 in donations to effective charities per year. It provides a chance to build a portfolio of useful skills and great career capital, and to have high job satisfaction while retaining substantial individual impact.

HISTORY

Charity Entrepreneurship was formally founded in June 2018 by Karolina Sarek, Joey Savoie, and Katherine Savoie. It’s a project of Charity Science Foundation of Canada, which was initiated by six months of research in 2016 and resulted in the founding of two GiveWell incubated charities: Charity Science Health and Fortify Health. Prior to Charity Entrepreneurship, Charity Science functioned as a meta-organization that helped donors to maximize their impact by making informed decisions about charitable opportunities.

HOW TO SUPPORT CE

DONATIONS

You can now support Charity Entrepreneurship through recurring donations via PayPal
For donations over $2,000, please contact jake@charityscience.com

SEND US RECOMMENDATIONS

Send people (including yourself) our way who you think might be a good fit for charity entrepreneurship. We’d love an introduction so that we could arrange a quick Skype to help them learn more about the option as a career.
​We do not have the resources to talk to everybody, but we try to be available for as many people as we can.​

APPLY TO BE A MENTOR

You can support Charity Entrepreneurship by joining our mentors list if you have: extensive knowledge in a field relevant for our charities; experience in managing evidence-based NGOs; or in marketing and communications.
Please fill in the form below to apply to be a mentor: ​

DONATE TO OUR CHARITIES

​You can now donate to high-impact charities that we incubated in our program. Pick the one you want to support from the PayPal list:
For donations over $2,000, please contact jake@charityscience.com

MEET OUR TEAM

Joey Savoie

Co-founder and
​Director of Strategy
Joey works on high level strategy across all the departments, including activity prioritization and creating research processes. He also leads the operations team in addition to the curriculum team, which focuses on creating the structure and content for the incubation program.

Prior to Charity Entrepreneurship, Joey co-founded Charity Science, a meta-organization that increased the amount of counterfactual funding going to high impact charities. Subsequently, he co-founded Charity Science Health, a nonprofit that increases vaccination rates in India using mobile phones and behavioural nudges. He has given lectures on various aspects of charity entrepreneurship and EA in Oxford, Cambridge, Harvard, Yale, EAG London, EAG San Francisco, Berlin, Basel, Vancouver, Stockholm, and Oslo. 

KAROLINA SAREK

Co-founder and
​Director of Research
Karolina creates a research agenda and processes and leads the research team, aiming to find and compare the most evidence-based, cost-effective and neglected interventions in multiple cause areas, to then recommend new charity ideas. She also trains and mentors Incubation Program participants in starting high-impact charities.
​Additionally, Karolina serves as a Fund Manager for the Effective Altruism Animal Welfare Fund, Board Member for the Charity Science and a mentor at WANBAM.
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Before co-founding Charity Entrepreneurship, she co-founded the Polish Foundation for Effective Altruism, working on improving the effectiveness of NGOs. Prior to that, she was working on measurement and evaluation for Charity Science Health and Open Cages, and as a researcher and communicator of science for IBM and the Jagiellonian University. During her master's studies, Karolina became the youngest university lecturer in her country. 

Katherine ​Savoie

Co-founder and 
​Communications Director
Katherine leads the communication team, which aims to help people learn about charity entrepreneurship as a career path. She speaks to those interested in making the leap, gives talks, runs the Charity Entrepreneurship podcast (coming soon!), writes content, and anything else that will get the information to those who want to start an effective charity. 

Prior to Charity Entrepreneurship, Katherine co-founded Charity Science Health, a direct poverty charity that received multiple grants from GiveWell and has served hundreds of thousands of families in India. Before that, she co-founded Charity Science Outreach, a meta-organization that raised nine counterfactual dollars for high-impact charities for every dollar spent. ​

George Bridgwater

​Research Analyst
George is part of the research team. He conducts research to find the most evidence-based, cost-effective and neglected interventions in animal advocacy and mental health.

Before joining the Charity Entrepreneurship team, George was studying Politics, Philosophy and Economics at the University of Southampton. Alongside his studies, he helped to found the Effective Altruism Society and was a treasurer of the vegan and vegetarian society. He also volunteered for several charities, including Animal Charity Evaluators and the Red Cross. After University, he participated in CE’s incubation program, after which he joined the team. 

Vicky ​Cox

Research Analyst
​Vicky is part of the research team, investigating and evaluating animal advocacy interventions.

​Before joining the Charity Entrepreneurship team, Vicky went through the incubation program. Prior to this, she was a research intern for CE, primarily completing the priority country research for our recommended animal charities. She did this internship alongside her Maths with Actuarial Science degree at the University of Southampton where she helped to found an effective altruism society. Vicky went vegan and became interested in effective altruism in 2016, after reading works by Peter Singer.

Juliette Finetti

Research Analyst
Juliette is part of the research team, looking to find the most evidence-based, cost-effective, and neglected family planning interventions.

Before joining the Charity Entrepreneurship team, Juliette worked on fundraising for Charity Science Health. Prior to this, she conducted systematic research at 3ie, aiming at synthesizing evidence from impact evaluations in the development sector through meta-analysis and evidence-gap maps. Juliette also worked on the design and implementation of RCTs with J-PAL in India and IPA in Sierra Leone.

Ishaan ​Guptasarma

Curriculum Developer and
Content Writer
Ishaan joined the Charity Entrepreneurship team after attending the 2019 Incubation Program. He works with the curriculum team designing course content, as well as taking on diverse responsibilities such as writing outreach material and coordinating conferences.​
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Before joining Charity Entrepreneurship, Ishaan undertook research in behavioral neuroscience and cognitive psychology at the University of Wisconsin Madison and later at the University of Chicago, as well as on two smaller projects involving photovoltaics and improving solar panel efficiency. He has also done volunteer projects, including science education in Delhi and research for Rethink Priorities.

ALI LADAK

Research Analyst
​Ali is part of the research team, working to find high-impact interventions in global health policy. He also contributes to the team's animal advocacy research.

​Before joining Charity Entrepreneurship, Ali worked as an Economist at a research consultancy focused on welfare economics and policy evaluation, and before this he worked in the field of regulatory economics. He has an undergraduate degree in Economics and master's degrees in Economics and Cognitive and Decision Sciences.

Jake Peters

Operations and Technology Officer
Jake manages payroll, accounting, finances, budget oversight, grant management, donations, contracts, agreements, and international operations strategy. He also handles the information technology needs of the organization.
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Before joining the Charity Science team, Jake had extensive experience in project management and software development.

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PATRICK ​STADLER

Charity Mentor and
​Curriculum Developer
Patrick mentors startups incubated by Charity Entrepreneurship, works on developing the curriculum and content of the upcoming incubation program, and contributes writing on the topic of starting organizations from scratch.
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Patrick is a co-founder and chair of the board of GiveWell-incubated charity, New Incentives. As a consultant at Stadler Trails, he supports a range of organizations working for the common good. Previously, he was a political advisor for Switzerland’s economic development agency where he participated in the negotiations on the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals. He also worked on strategic communications in the context of peacebuilding and mediation at the United Nations Department of Political Affairs in New York.

Rory Svarc

Research Analyst
Rory is part of the research team, ideally helping to minimise the total amount of suffering that ever happens. As a hopeful proxy for this terminal goal, he currently works on trying to find the highest-impact animal advocacy interventions. He also contributes to the team’s research on global health policy.

Before joining the Charity Entrepreneurship team, Rory spent time at the EA Hotel, and has studied (variously) maths, economics, and philosophy, at the Universities of London and Cambridge.

ULA ZAROSA

Digital Media Manager
Ula is responsible for digital outreach: social media channels, website design, newsletters, photos, general content management and communications.

Before joining CE, Ula completed PhD in Philosophy and published a book on the moral status of animals. She has worked on digital marketing in startup projects for Michał Kiciński (investor, top 100 Forbes Poland, co-founder of CD Projekt which was responsible for The Witcher game series), including building a Pay What You Want books portal and opening of a trendy vegan restaurant in central Warsaw. Ula was also working as Communications Manager for ProVeg International in Poland and has been a vegan and animal activist for 18 years.