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 programs
  • Attracting donors from a broader spectrum of areas 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.
 Read more on  Why Founding Charities Is One of the Highest Impact Things One Can Do>>

HISTORY

Charity Entrepreneurship was formally founded in June 2018 by Joey Savoie and Karolina Sarek. 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

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 CE AND INCUBATED CHARITIES

Help us found more effective charities by donating to our research and Incubation Program, or donate to one of the new charities we’ve helped launch. Donations to Charity Entrepreneurship from tax residents of the US, UK, and Canada are tax-deductible. ​

MEET OUR TEAM

Joey Savoie

Co-founder and
​Director of Strategy
Joey works on high level strategy across all the departments. 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, a director and mentor at WANBAM, and consultant and advisory board member for various EA non-profits. 
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Before Charity Entrepreneurship, she co-founded an organization to improve the impact of non-profits and social enterprises; worked on measurement and evaluation for Charity Science Health and Open Cages; and was a researcher for IBM and the Jagiellonian University (JU). At the age of 22, she became a university teaching fellow, lecturing at JU’s Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science. 

PATRICK ​STADLER

Director of Communications and Charity Mentor
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.

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.

ERIK HAUSEN

Senior Research Advisor
Erik reviews and creates research reports across all of CE's research areas. Additionally, he mentors startups incubated by CE.

Erik previously co-led the GiveWell incubated Charity Science Health, a nonprofit that increases vaccination rates in India using mobile phones and behavioral nudges. Before that, he was a Research Manager for J-PAL's Behavioral Development Lab, where he managed randomized control trials on the economic impacts of increasing sleep, reducing depression, reducing loneliness, and increasing education on the lives of the poor in India. He holds an MA from the University of Toronto's Doctoral Stream Economics program.

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.

ANDREW PLAYER

Senior Operations Lead
Andrew heads the operations team, and is responsible for logistics, finance, accounting, human resources, and grant management.
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Before joining Charity Entrepreneurship, Andrew worked in humanitarian protection for the International Committee of the Red Cross in Myanmar, and in logistics for Médecins Sans Frontières in South Sudan and the Democratic Republic of the Congo. He holds an undergraduate degree in International Development and a master's degree in International Relations.

ANTONIA SHANN

Editor and Communications Officer
Antonia works on communications and editing at CE, and is responsible for managing the copyediting interns.

​Previously, she interned as a General Editor at the Oxford English Dictionary. She has a Bachelor’s degree in French and English, as well as a Master’s degree in Animal Studies. Antonia became interested in effective altruism after reading Peter Singer’s Animal Liberation and William MacAskill’s Doing Good Better. Outside working at CE, she volunteers as a writer at Faunalytics. She has been vegan since 2016.

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 a 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 eBooks portal and opening 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 19 years.