June 11, 2026
Anthropic said it will commit an initial $150 million to a national fellowship, Claude Corps, that will train 1,000 people early in their careers to use its Claude models and place them full-time inside US nonprofits for a year. The first cohort of 100 begins in October, with applications for it closing on July 17.
The program is structured as a three-way partnership, according to Anthropic. The company funds it, sets strategy, and provides technical support; CodePath, a nonprofit that runs collegiate computer-science programs, acts as the fellows’ employer of record and leads training; and Social Finance, a nonprofit and registered investment adviser, handles measurement and is building a financing vehicle intended to let the program scale beyond Anthropic’s initial commitment.
Each fellowship runs 12 months and pays an $85,000 salary plus benefits, the company said, with upfront training, about five hours of continued training a week, a mentor, and a budget of Claude usage. Eligibility is open to anyone over 18 with less than two years of full-time work experience who is authorized to work in the United States and willing to relocate. Anthropic said at least 400 nonprofits, spanning food banks, veterans’ groups, conservation, and education organizations, are set to host fellows over the year.
The commitment is one of the larger corporate efforts to route AI labor into the nonprofit sector, and its structure ties Anthropic’s product to the training itself. Forbes reported the launch alongside the company’s own announcement. What the program has not yet shown is outcome data: whether placing Claude-trained fellows measurably changes what the host organizations can do, which is the measurement Social Finance is meant to produce.