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Applications Now Open for AIM’s 2025 Programs

CE Team

Jul 25
7 min

Applications Now Open for AIM’s 2025 Programs

Applications for the Charity Entrepreneurship Incubation Program and AIM’s new Founding to Give Program are now OPEN!

Tips for people considering starting new incubators

Joey Savoie

May 27, 2023
10 min

Tips for people considering starting new incubators

Charity Entrepreneurship is frequently contacted by individuals and donors who like our model. Several have expressed interest in seeing...

After launch. How are CE charities progressing?

Ula Zarosa

Mar 6, 2023
7 min

After launch. How are CE charities progressing?

TL;DR: Charity Entrepreneurship have helped to kick-start 23 impact-focused nonprofits in four years. We believe that starting more...

Entrepreneurship Explained: Nonprofits, For-Profits, and Social Ventures

Joey Savoie

Mar 1, 2021
5 min

Entrepreneurship Explained: Nonprofits, For-Profits, and Social Ventures

There are many ways to use entrepreneurship to make the world a better place. Our organization Charity Entrepreneurship focuses on the...

Impactful Opportunities Around and Adjacent to Charity Entrepreneurship

CE Team

Feb 12, 2021
1 min

Impactful Opportunities Around and Adjacent to Charity Entrepreneurship

We recently hosted an online event, “Impactful opportunities around and adjacent to charity entrepreneurship”. In this short talk and Q&A...

What is a Reasonable Financial Safety Net for a Charity Entrepreneur

Joey Savoie

Apr 13, 2020
3 min

What is a Reasonable Financial Safety Net for a Charity Entrepreneur

Charity entrepreneurship in many ways is a less stable career than a traditional job. Charities in their early days will have limited...

Patrick Stadler

Mar 1, 2020
10 min

How to Successfully Pick a Co-Founder

No pressure, but picking your co-founder is one of the most important decisions you will ever make as a charity entrepreneur. Only...

CE Team

Jan 29, 2020
3 min

Should I Start a Charity Now Or Later?

Is now the right time? Am I experienced enough? These are two major questions for many potential charity entrepreneurs. Here’s our take....

Five Challenges a Charity Entrepreneur Faces -- and How to Manage Them

Patrick Stadler

Jan 16, 2020
6 min

Five Challenges a Charity Entrepreneur Faces -- and How to Manage Them

“Why take this risk?” Mentioning at a family gathering that you would like to become a charity entrepreneur might trigger looks of...

Six Ways Your Charity Startup Might Fail -- and How to Prevent That

Patrick Stadler

Jan 1, 2020
9 min

Six Ways Your Charity Startup Might Fail -- and How to Prevent That

Your charity startup just hit the ground running. You are passionate about your cause, you just gave a big talk at a conference, and...

Why charity entrepreneurship is one of the highest-impact things you can do

CE Team

Feb 24, 2019
22 min

Why charity entrepreneurship is one of the highest-impact things you can do

In this talk from EA Global 2018: London, Joey Savoie, Charity Entrepreneurship's director, discusses why charity entrepreneurship is one...

Which jobs will best prepare you to become a charity entrepreneur?

CE Team

Dec 12, 2018
4 min

Which jobs will best prepare you to become a charity entrepreneur?

The first thing to consider is whether you need a job to prepare yourself for charity entrepreneurship as a career path. A number of...

Setting our salary based on the world’s average GDP per capita

CE Team

Aug 25, 2018
2 min

Setting our salary based on the world’s average GDP per capita

A lot of people in the EA movement have a large say over their salary, whether it be earning to give where you can donate down to a...

How to prepare for founding your own charity

CE Team

Jul 28, 2018
3 min

How to prepare for founding your own charity

There are a variety of ways to prepare for founding your own charity. There is, of course, the legal and bureaucratic work, but much more...

What traits make a great charity entrepreneur

CE Team

Jul 18, 2018
5 min

What traits make a great charity entrepreneur

“I’m convinced that half of what separates the successful entrepreneurs from the non-successful ones is pure perseverance.” -- Steve Jobs...

How Logistics Will Influence Which Intervention You Pick

CE Team

Apr 16, 2018
7 min

How Logistics Will Influence Which Intervention You Pick

“You will not find it difficult to prove that battles, campaigns, and even wars have been won or lost primarily because of logistics.” -...

Counterfactual impact: what would happen if you didn’t act?

CE Team

Apr 16, 2017
5 min

Counterfactual impact: what would happen if you didn’t act?

“In order to be irreplaceable, you must always be different.” - Coco Chanel WHAT IS COUNTERFACTUAL IMPACT? Counterfactual impact is what...

Starting charities: When to Do it Yourself, Hire, and Inspire?

CE Team

Jun 1, 2016
2 min

Starting charities: When to Do it Yourself, Hire, and Inspire?

There are many different ways to help create a charity and they each come with different trade-offs between time, money, and execution....

CE Team

Oct 28, 2015
5 min

Why charity entrepreneurship?

This article was co-authored by Kieran Greig, Joey Savoie, and Katherine Savoie. A number of considerations suggest that charity...