Claude Corps Fellowship 2026 — $85,000 salary to use AI for social good
Claude Corps is a partnership between CodePath and Anthropic that places early-career fellows full-time inside nonprofits, government agencies, and public-interest organizations for one year. As a fellow, you’ll build real AI-powered solutions using Claude, teach the teams around you to do the same, and leave behind tools that keep running long after your fellowship ends.
What you’ll do
Discover and scope
Spend real time understanding what your host organization actually needs. Pull usage data, talk to the people doing the work, and define projects in sprints with clear outcomes.
Build with Claude
Ship working solutions — agents, automations, internal tools, evaluation harnesses, integrations — that make a process faster, cheaper, or possible for the first time.
Enable the organization
Run trainings for mixed technical and non-technical audiences. Turn three or four colleagues into the people others go to with AI questions. Your job isn’t done when the tool works — it’s done when someone else can own it.
Hand off well
Sit with the person who’ll own your work after you leave. Watch them break it. Write the runbook. Make sure it survives you.
Exercise judgment
Catch your own wrong answers. Tell a stakeholder “we shouldn’t build that” when it’s true. Cut the part of the demo that isn’t landing.
Benefits
Who can apply
- 18 or older with less than two years of professional work experience — degree not required
- Have built something end-to-end on your own — a project, tool, or automation you scoped, shipped, and can talk about honestly
- A genuine, demonstrated pull toward social-impact work — nonprofits, public service, education, health, or community organizations
- Can take initiative without a PM tracking you, and stay coachable while doing it
- Can explain something technical to a non-technical room and read whether it’s landing
- Authorized to work in the United States and open to relocation within the US (visa sponsorship is not available)
Strong candidates may also have
- Experience shipping inside a small team or organization where you wore multiple hats
- A track record of teaching, mentoring, or running workshops for non-technical audiences
- Domain exposure in public health, education, workforce, civic tech, or social services
- Experience with agent frameworks, evals, or production LLM deployments
Key dates
Ready to apply?
Don’t wait — applications are reviewed as they come in before the July 17 deadline.
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