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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!

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...

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....

Why top performers shouldn’t go to university. There are better ways to signal competence

In this post I am not going to argue that university is largely about signaling competence; Brian Caplan and many other writers have...

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...

Why EAs in particular are good people to start charities

There have been previous posts about the impact of founding a new GiveWell top charity, the impact of charity founding, and some of the...

Why founding charities is one of the highest impact things one can do

Track record and tractability Historically, some of the highest impact individuals in the EA movement and across the broader world have...

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....