Anthropic adds a nonprofit plugin to Claude and widens Claude Corps to shorter consulting projects
The AI company said on Oct. 26 that a set of tools built with about 30 nonprofits now comes installed for verified nonprofits, and that consultants for small, short projects will join the fellows its Claude Corps program places with organizations.
San Francisco. Anthropic, the artificial intelligence company that makes Claude, released a Claude for Nonprofits plugin on Oct. 26 and said it will widen Claude Corps, its program that places paid fellows inside nonprofits, by also offering consultants for smaller, shorter projects, The Associated Press reported. That was also the day the company filed to sell shares to the public.
The product page describes the plugin as a set of skills and connectors built with about 30 nonprofits in what it calls its design partner circle. It comes installed for every verified nonprofit and has 14 skills in four areas: an organization's records, voice and AI policy; marketing; hiring, onboarding and board recruitment; and fundraising, from funder and grant research to proposals, grant reports and relations with funders.
Who can use it
Nonprofit pricing is open to registered 501(c)(3) organizations and their equivalents abroad, K-12 schools and some rural and community health providers. The Team plan, for 2 to 150 seats, is listed at $8 a user a month, or $3 for nonprofits based in low and middle income countries.
The page says more than 25,000 nonprofits use Claude. Elizabeth Kelly, Anthropic's head of beneficial deployments, told the AP that most of them have fewer than 10 people on staff. Organizations quoted on the page include Best Friends Animal Society, a member of the design partner circle, and Allies Against Slavery of Austin, Texas, whose one-person policy team used Claude to analyze more than 750 state anti-trafficking policies.
Fellows and consultants
Anthropic announced Claude Corps in June with an initial $150 million. Its pages describe a 12-month, full-time fellowship paying $85,000 a year, with the nonprofit CodePath as the fellows' employer. About 100 fellows start this month and 900 more in cohorts beginning in March and August 2027. Hosts must be U.S. 501(c)(3) organizations on a Claude for Nonprofits Team or Enterprise plan, and each gets a one-time $10,000 grant for hosting costs.
The consultant offering appears in the AP's report, not yet on the company's program pages. The AP quoted Cat Ward, chief executive of the Taproot Foundation, as saying her organization will work with Anthropic to provide pro bono expertise for specific projects. Scott Burns, president and chief executive of Montgomery County Food Bank in Conroe, Texas, told the AP he expects two Claude Corps fellows to work on its inventory system and volunteer scheduling.
Earlier this month Anthropic separately announced plans to put 5% of its shares into an Anthropic Public Benefit Fund. Bella DeVaan, director of the Charity Reform Initiative at the Institute for Policy Studies, told the AP that without tax reform there is no guarantee public benefit corporations will act in the public interest.
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