Introducing Claude Corps

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Claude Corps is a national fellowship program Anthropic is funding as a direct policy response to anticipated AI-driven workforce disruption. The $150M initial commitment funds 1,000 fellows, each earning $85,000 annually and benefits, placed full-time at nonprofits across America for 12-month terms. The program is structured as a three-party partnership: Anthropic funds strategy and Claude access, CodePath (America's largest provider of collegiate computer science education) acts as employer of record and leads programming, and Social Finance leads measurement and builds a long-term financial vehicle for scale.\n\nFellows receive intensive initial training on using Claude in nonprofit settings, plus five hours of weekly ongoing training throughout the placement. Each gets an expanded Claude token budget, CodePath mentorship, and Anthropic technical office hours. Host organizations span diverse sectors: education nonprofits like Braven (first-generation college students) and Code the Dream (free coding education), economic development organizations like Heartland Forward, and food banks like Montgomery County Food Bank. At least 400 nonprofits will host fellows in the first year.\n\nAnthropicmframes the program explicitly as a responsibility that comes with building transformative technology: if Claude displaces workers, the company has an obligation to invest directly in those absorbing the change. The program accompanies a broader Economic Policy Framework on AI's impact on work.\n\nSocial Finance is building a financial scaling vehicle for expansion beyond the initial 400 nonprofits and 1,000 fellows, signaling intent to grow the program substantially.