Author: HIP Program Team
Date: April 1, 2026
Introducing: The High-Impact Alphabet Incubator
High Impact Professionals (HIP) and High Impact Athletes (HIA) are excited to announce a bold new initiative from the community: the High-Impact Alphabet Incubator.
Our vision is simple but ambitious: by 2027, we aim to have one high-impact branded charity for every letter of the English alphabet, covering the full spectrum of high-impact domains.
Currently, there are the following (great, if you ask us!) programs:
- HIA: High Impact Athletes – Leveraging elite athletes’ influence to fund and advocate for neglected, high-value causes.
- HIP: High Impact Professionals – Helping connect ambitious professionals with tools and networks to transform their careers into a force for good.
Our goal is to expand this model to 24 more programs, creating a fully diversified A-to-Z portfolio of high-impact charities by 2027.
How We’re Thinking About New Letters
Each new program will follow the same principles:
- Neglected but high-impact: Focus on cause areas that are underfunded relative to their potential positive impact.
- Scalable interventions: Prioritize initiatives where small investments in time, money, or attention can produce outsized benefits.
- Community-driven: Each program will have its own network of volunteers, researchers, and high-impact members coordinating efforts.
Some candidate letters and programs currently under consideration include:
- HIA: High Impact Athletes ✅Already operational. Doing great.
- HIB: High Impact Biologists Doing biosecurity research they can't publish
- HIC: High Impact Chefs Feeding the world, one cost-effective meal at a time
- HID: High Impact Diplomats Preventing great power conflict one awkward dinner at a time
- HIE: High Impact Existentialists Questioning whether impact is real
- HIF: High Impact Fathers Paternal welfare is suspiciously neglected
- HIG: High Impact Gamers Leveraging Twitch audiences for neglected causes; Note: HIA to acquire HIG ahead of e-sports 2032 Olympic inclusion!
- HIH: High Impact Huel No explanation needed
- HII: High Impact Introverts Doing good quietly from their apartments
- HIJ: High Impact Journalists Writing long-form cause prioritisation pieces that nobody reads
- HIK: High Impact Knitters Community building and stress reduction for burned-out EAs
- HIL: High Impact Lurkers For all those reading every slack post and never responding… not even with an emoji
- HIM: High Impact Medicine Hi-Med is so yesterday - welcome to the club!
- HIN: High Impact Nudgers Behavioural science for good
- HIO: High Impact Optimisers Applying expected value to everything, including lunch
- HIP: High Impact Professionals ✅Sorted, don’t worry!
- HIQ*
- HIR: High Impact Ruminators Thinking hard without any concrete actions taken. Ever.
- HIS: High Impact Shrimp Having dominated the welfare discourse for long enough, shrimp are now funding research into the next species
- HIT: High Impact Technocrats Governance solutions for everything
- HIU: High Impact Undergrads The pipeline, for better or worse
- HIV: [Redacted pending legal review]
- HIW: High Impact Worriers Like Neurotics, but with more tail-risk scenarios
- HIX*
- HIY*
- HIZ: High Impact Zebras Charismatic megafauna welfare, finally
Measuring Success
As with all HIP initiatives, impact measurement is core. We’re developing a scoring system that estimates:
- Expected lives saved or improved per program
- Neglectedness-adjusted impact potential
- “Cool” factor
Early modeling by an intern over a long weekend suggests that, once the alphabet is complete, the High-Impact Alphabet portfolio will cover more cause areas with measurable impact than any single existing EA program.
We invite the EA Forum community to:
- Suggest additional charity ideas that could benefit from a high-impact program*.
- Apply to our incubator program to help launch and manage new programs.
- Provide feedback on our impact metrics and reporting framework.
By working together, we hope to achieve A-to-Z coverage of high-impact initiatives, making an alphabetically effective engine for EA-aligned action.
“If you can’t measure the impact, make a new letter for it.”
~ Anonymous HIP Advisor
Stay tuned for updates on our next launches. We’ll be raising seed funding for HIB, HIC, and HID in the coming months, starting the countdown toward a complete alphabet of high-impact charities!
(And happy April 1st)
* Note if you’re interested in founding HIQ, HIX, or HIY, please reach out. These letters appear unusually neglected in our current models.
Originally published at highimpactprofessionals.org/blog/the-a-z-high-impact-incubator
