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title: "Introducing Claude Corps"
description: "Anthropic is launching Claude Corps, a national fellowship program for early-career people who will help nonprofits across America apply AI to their missions. The program will train 1,000 fellows, place them with at least 400 nonprofits over the next 12 months, and commit an initial $150 million to widening AI’s benefits during economic change. Anthropic funds and leads strategy, CodePath employs and trains fellows, and Social Finance handles measurement and a longer-term financing vehicle. Each 12-month fellowship includes intensive initial training, five hours of weekly training, an $85,000 salary and benefits, mentoring, technical office hours, and a Claude token budget. Applications are open for cohorts beginning October 2026, January 2027, and August 2027, while the program plans rigorous evaluation, some open-sourced infrastructure, and possible expansion beyond the United States."
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# Introducing Claude Corps

[Anthropic](https://yomu.fyi/company/anthropic) · Aug 27, 2026

**Type:** Announcement

## Summary

Anthropic is launching Claude Corps, a national fellowship program for early-career people who will help nonprofits across America apply AI to their missions. The program will train 1,000 fellows, place them with at least 400 nonprofits over the next 12 months, and commit an initial $150 million to widening AI’s benefits during economic change. Anthropic funds and leads strategy, CodePath employs and trains fellows, and Social Finance handles measurement and a longer-term financing vehicle. Each 12-month fellowship includes intensive initial training, five hours of weekly training, an $85,000 salary and benefits, mentoring, technical office hours, and a Claude token budget. Applications are open for cohorts beginning October 2026, January 2027, and August 2027, while the program plans rigorous evaluation, some open-sourced infrastructure, and possible expansion beyond the United States.

## Context

The program responds to the potential for transformative AI systems to cause significant disruption and to the stated responsibility of companies building the technology to ensure its benefits are widely shared and to invest directly in workers absorbing the change.

## Approach / What changed

Anthropic, CodePath, and Social Finance will run a 12-month fellowship in which trained early-career fellows are placed with nonprofits, receive ongoing instruction and support, and work full-time in person on host organizations’ missions. The program includes salaries, benefits, mentoring, technical office hours, measurement and evaluation, and plans for open-sourcing some enabling infrastructure.

## Takeaways

- Fellows receive an $85,000 full-time salary and benefits, five hours of training each week, CodePath mentorship, Anthropic technical office hours, a Claude token budget, and guidance from their host-organization manager.
- Applications accept people over 18 with under two years of full-time work experience, regardless of educational background, who are authorized to work in the US and willing to relocate if necessary.
- Social Finance will lead measurement and evaluation of organizational and fellow outcomes while building a longer-term financial vehicle intended to help the program scale.

**Tags:** [AI](https://yomu.fyi/topic/ai), [Claude](https://yomu.fyi/topic/claude), [Open Source](https://yomu.fyi/topic/open-source)

- Source: [Anthropic](https://www.anthropic.com/news/claude-corps)
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