Introducing Claude Corps

We’re launching Claude Corps, a national fellowship program for people early in their careers who are passionate about extending the benefits of AI to communities across America.

We’ll teach 1,000 fellows how to use Claude well, match them with nonprofits across America, and pay them to spend a year—full-time, in-person—helping host organizations to advance their missions. Our goals are twofold: that host organizations are equipped with valuable tools and systems, and fellows build AI skills that will serve them in their careers.

The benefits of transformative AI systems could come at the cost of significant disruption. The companies building this technology have a responsibility to make sure the benefits are fully realized and widely shared, and to invest directly in the workers absorbing the change. As such, we’re committing an initial $150m to this program.

If Claude Corps works, we'll have a foundation for something much larger: a model for widening AI's benefits during a period of vast economic change. We’re announcing Claude Corps alongside our policy framework for addressing AI's impact on work.

How Claude Corps works

Claude Corps is set up as a partnership between three organizations. Anthropic will fund the program, lead its overall strategy, and provide Claude expertise. CodePath, an Anthropic nonprofit partner and America’s largest provider of collegiate computer science education, will act as the fellows’ official employer of record and lead programming during the fellowship. Social Finance, a nonprofit and registered investment advisor, will lead measurement and evaluation, and will build a longer-term financial vehicle to enable the program to scale.

The fellow experience

Each fellowship lasts for 12 months. At the beginning of the program, Anthropic and CodePath will provide intensive training on using Claude in nonprofit settings. After being placed, fellows will receive five hours of ongoing training each week, with the remainder of their time dedicated to their host organization.

Fellows will receive a full-time salary of $85,000 and benefits, support from a CodePath mentor, office hours from Anthropic for their technical questions, an expansive Claude token budget, and professional guidance from their manager at the host organization.

Over the next 12 months, at least 400 nonprofits will host Claude Corps Fellows. Host organizations include:

• Braven (Chicago, Illinois). A nonprofit teaching first-generation and lower-income students how to land a strong first job.

• Code the Dream (Durham, North Carolina). A nonprofit that provides free coding education and paid software apprenticeships to people seeking the skills they need to build a better life.

• Heartland Forward (Bentonville, Arkansas). A nonpartisan think-and-do tank focused on accelerating economic growth in the American heartland.

• Montgomery County Food Bank (Conroe, Texas). A food bank that feeds children, seniors, and families north of Houston through more than 100 local pantries and partner agencies.

• Team Red, White & Blue (Floyds Knobs, Indiana). A nonprofit that supports veteran health and wellness through events and programs focused on building a healthy lifestyle.

• Reef Environmental Education Foundation (Key Largo, Florida). A marine conservation nonprofit that conducts underwater surveys to protect reefs.

• SoundOff (San Antonio, Texas). A nonprofit that provides anonymous access to licensed counselors and peer support for Service Members.

• StriveTogether (Cincinnati, Ohio). A national nonprofit that supports local partnerships to change the way their communities work together, using data, to help young people thrive.

• YMCA of Greater Charlotte (Charlotte, North Carolina). The local Y across the Charlotte region, with 14 Centers, three program facilities, and two overnight camps serving nearly 300,000 kids, families, and seniors a year.

You can hear more from our hosts below:

Applications and timeline

Fellowship applications are open today, and will close on July 17th for the first cohort of 100, which begins in October 2026. Applications are open on a rolling basis for the next two cohorts, which begin in January 2027 and August 2027. Anyone over 18 with under two years of full-time work experience is welcome to apply, regardless of educational background. The only requirements are that you’re authorized to work in the US, are comfortable working with Claude, and are willing to relocate if necessary. (Relocation support is available as needed.)

Host organization applications are also open today for all cohort start dates. For more information about criteria for hosting and what’s involved, see the Claude Corps website.

What’s next

Our ambition is for this program to scale far beyond 1,000 fellows, as we’ve outlined above. We'll be rigorously measuring the extent to which host organizations have advanced their missions, as well as how fellows develop their skills and career prospects, to understand how Claude Corps should evolve. We plan to open-source some of the core technology and infrastructure that enables this program to work, so that others can build out similar initiatives towards what could be a large-scale nationwide effort. And, we’d like to build a model that can be replicated in other countries outside the US.

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