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.
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OUR VALUES
Ambitious altruism: We strive to maximize impact and aim high in our pursuit of making the world a better place.
Consequentialism: We are results oriented, with a high level of integrity and commitment to these results.
Startup culture: We are agile, lean, and flexible in our approach, iteratively improving through quick experiments and fast feedback loops.
Science: We believe that empirical and systematic evidence is the most important for coming to key conclusions.
Caring community: We value having a warm and connected community that is highly collaborative

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

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. ​

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: ​

MEET OUR TEAM

Joey Savoie

Co-founder and
​Director of Strategy
Joey works on high-level strategy across all the departments and mentorship and training for the participants of the incubation programs. He is also one of the primary contributors to the handbook "How to start a high-impact nonprofit".

​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 Effective Altruism in Oxford, Cambridge, Harvard, Yale, EAG London, EAG San Francisco, Berlin, Basel, Vancouver, Stockholm, and others.

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.She also serves as a Fund Manager at the EA Animal Welfare Fund, and as a board member and consultant for various nonprofits and think tanks.
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Before Charity Entrepreneurship, she co-founded an organization to improve the impact of nonprofits and social enterprises; worked on measurement and evaluation; 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.

Vicky ​Cox

Research and
​Operations 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.

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.

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.

BOARD MEMBERS

Juliette Finetti
Research Manager,
​Department of Economics and School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University
Brendan Eappen
​Co-founder of ​Fortify Health,
Student at Harvard Medical School (MD degree)
David Moss
Principal Research Manager,
​Rethink Priorities