You’ve been trying to figure out AI for months.
Maybe years.
You’ve sat through webinars. You’ve watched your peer organizations experiment. You’ve wondered how your team could possibly add one more thing to an already stretched operation.
Here’s the thing. Anthropic just removed the biggest barrier.
They’re not selling you software. They’re not offering a discount. They are fully funding a trained, full-time AI fellow to come work inside your organization for an entire year — salary, benefits, training, and support all covered.
It’s called Claude Corps. And your ministry or nonprofit should apply.
What You Actually Get
As a host organization, you receive a fellow whose salary and benefits are fully covered. On top of that, every host receives a one-time $10,000 implementation grant to cover operational and administrative costs of hosting, plus up to $2,500 in Claude licenses and API credits per fellow.
Read that again slowly!
A full-time staff member for a year.
$10,000 to help absorb the cost of hosting.
Access to Anthropic office hours for help.
And the AI tools to actually do the work.
You can host up to four fellows, and the program recommends at least two per organization if feasible.
Everything the fellow builds during the year belongs to your organization. The tools, the code, the systems. Yours.
What the Fellow Will Work On
You define the project.
Examples from organizations already involved include a workforce nonprofit building a triage tool so case managers match clients to training programs faster, a housing authority summarizing inspection reports to reduce staff paperwork, and a legal aid clinic prototyping an intake screener to route callers by issue type.
You don’t need to have it all figured out before you apply. If you know something is slowing your team down but haven’t defined the AI project yet, that’s fine — Anthropic works with selected hosts on project discovery before the fellowship begins.
The best projects are specific. A real bottleneck your team hits every week. A process that eats staff hours. A gap between the people you serve and the help you can actually deliver.
That’s your starting point.
Who Is Eligible
To host a fellow, your organization needs to be a 501(c)(3) nonprofit and a Claude for Nonprofits Team or Enterprise customer. If you’re not yet part of that discounted program, you can sign up and then complete the host application.
You also need an in-person or hybrid workplace where the fellow can spend regular time alongside your team, a senior leader to champion the fellowship, and a staff member to manage the fellow day-to-day.
Fully remote organizations can apply now but will not host a fellow until the 2027 cohorts.
What Your Organization Commits To
This is a real commitment. The program is asking you to manage this person the way you’d manage any full-time hire.
Your responsibilities include naming a supervisor who holds regular check-ins, provides ongoing coaching and feedback, and keeps the fellow on track.
You provide one or more defined projects plus the data, tools, and guidance to complete them.
You join quarterly virtual convenings, complete brief monthly surveys, and build a plan for sustaining the fellow’s work after the fellowship ends.
What You Don’t Have to Worry About
Payroll. Benefits. HR. Training.
CodePath is the employer of record. Fellows are full-time salaried CodePath employees. CodePath handles payroll, benefits, and all employment administration. If anything isn’t working on the employment side — performance concerns, conduct issues, or ending the placement — that goes through CodePath.
Every fellow completes an intensive Claude-focused training before placement and continues with approximately five hours per week of structured upskilling throughout the year. Host organization staff also receive access to Anthropic enablement programming, so your broader team can build AI fluency alongside the fellow.
You manage the work. They manage the employment.
The Deadlines You Need to Know
The application deadline for Cohort 1 is 11:59 pm PT on Friday, July 17, 2026. Fellows in Cohort 1 begin October 19, 2026. Applications for the January 2027 and August 2027 cohorts are rolling.
There is a host organization webinar on Wednesday, June 17, where the team will walk through the program and the application and answer questions live. A recording will be posted after the event for those who can’t attend.
The application takes about 30 minutes. You share details about your organization, your sponsor, and your supervisor, and answer a few short questions about why you want to participate and what you’d want a fellow to work on.
If you are not selected for Cohort 1, your application automatically rolls to Cohort 2. You don’t need to reapply.
Why Ministry Organizations Specifically Should Not Wait
Most of the organizations shaping how AI gets used in nonprofits right now are secular. Nothing wrong with that. But it means the values shaping these tools — what counts as human dignity, what ethical use looks like, how vulnerable populations get protected — are being defined by people with a particular set of assumptions.
Ministry-led organizations bring a different set of values to that work. A view of personhood that runs deeper than productivity. A theology of service that predates the nonprofit sector by two thousand years.
Claude Corps places a trained AI builder inside your organization to do real work for a full year. You keep everything that gets built. Your team learns alongside them. And you position your organization to carry those values into an AI-shaped future.
More details available at anthropic.com/claude-corps/host
