Deadline: 31-Mar-22
The Charity Entrepreneurship’s (CE) Incubation Program is now open to help you start a high-impact NGO. Prepare to start an effective charity with the two-month online program. It’s a full-time, cost-covered, intensive training designed by founders for founders.
Explore the critical components of evidence-based charities. Learn prioritization, impact analysis, cost-effectiveness, gathering support, management, and fundraising in real-world partner projects. Gain clarity, build your confidence, and network.
Why Start A Charity?
- Have A Huge Impact: Directly save and improve lives at scale. They estimated the average alumni’s impact as equivalent to donating $200,000/yr to effective charities.
- Build Career Capital: Gain the invaluable hands-on experience of becoming an entrepreneur and hone your team and management skills on a high-impact project.
- Do Good Better: Move resources and attention towards important problems and demonstrate the potential of cost-effective and evidence-based interventions.
Training
The training is divided into two stages:
- Month 1 is all about matching with a co-founder and a charity idea. You will spend most of your time working with project partners on practical challenges. Explore different working styles and test compatibility, values, and epistemics. Deeply engage in a variety of real-world tasks and charity ideas.
- Month 2 is about working with your new partner to build your charity: early pilots, monitoring and evaluation strategy, and even your brand. Together, you will craft and submit a real proposal for funding and get ready to launch. They don’t just teach you about starting a charity, they make sure you have the tools and confidence to actually do it.
Benefits
- They award seed funding to launch successful projects, with grants ranging from $50,000 to $175,000. In 2021, new CE charities received seed funding of over $500,000 in total.
- Get access to CE’s 400-page Handbook on starting a charity and over 100 video lectures prepared by experienced founders. Master the fundamental principles of managing high-impact organizations, including:
- Cost-effectiveness Analysis
- Monitoring and Evaluation
- Fundraising and Operations
- Strategic Decision-making
- Work 8 hours a day developing relevant skills in real-world partner projects:
- Is your charity cost-effective? Prepare a Cost-effectiveness Analysis (CEA)
- Where do you operate? Draft a Geographic Assessment Framework
- How do you begin implementation? Outline a One-year Plan
- What is your impact? Prepare a Monitoring & Evaluation Plan
- How much funding do you need? Draft a Budget
- How do you best fundraise? Prioritize potential funders
- How do you work with your co-founder? Come up with a Founders’ Agreement to facilitate your collaboration
- And many more
- Receive extensive group and individual feedback, ready-made templates (e.g., sample budgets, one-year plans), and one-on-one discussions about your progress.
- Participate in a streamlined co-founder and charity idea selection process by:
- Providing weekly feedback on your project partners and preferred ideas
- Meeting with senior staff members for 1:1 mentoring
- Enjoying individual social calls with all potential co-founders
- Having constant access to a highly-qualified research team
- Joining a network of previous founders that are happy to share experience and advice
- Getting final pairing advice from senior staff members to help you find the best fit.
- Graduate from the program with:
- A co-founder
- A high-quality charity idea and plan for implementation
- A robust funding proposal
- A seed grant (not guaranteed for everyone, but on average, at least 50% of co-founder pairings receive funding).
Eligibility Criteria
- CE accepts candidates of all ages from a wide range of backgrounds.
- Experience is helpful but not necessary. They train people with over a decade of expertise alongside those with little to no work experience or formal education.
For more information, visit https://www.charityentrepreneurship.com/incubation-program