Applications Open for HIP's Impact Accelerator Program

High Impact Professionals (HIP) is excited to announce that applications are now open for the next round of our Impact Accelerator Program (IAP). The IAP is a free 6-week program designed to equip experienced (mid-career/senior) EA-aligned professionals (not currently working at a high-impact organization) with the knowledge and tools necessary to make a meaningful impact and empower them to start taking actionable steps right away. 

To date, the program’s high action focus has proven to be successful:

• 79 participants out of 359 from our first seven program rounds have already transitioned into high-impact careers, through various paths, including founding new charities, starting founding-to-give companies, and joining high-impact organizations such as GiveWell, Charity Entrepreneurship, ML Alignment & Theory Scholars (MATS), Malaria Consortium, and more.
• 160 additional participants are taking concrete actions towards a high-impact career, including skilled volunteering roles at high-impact organizations.
• Many participants are donating a meaningful percentage of their annual salary to effective charities, with 78 having taken the 🔶 10% Pledge (21) or 🔷 Trial Pledge (57) during a IAP round.

We’re pleased to open up this new program round, which will start the week of July 13. 

More information is available below and here. 

Please apply by Sunday, June 7.

New for 2026: IAP Entrepreneurship Track

If you’ve been thinking of starting your own high-impact organization, the IAP Entrepreneurship Track offers you the guidance, network, opportunities, and tailored support to help you succeed.

It includes everything in the standard IAP, plus:

• A community of fellow aspiring founders, with a facilitator experienced in the high-impact entrepreneurial space
• Tailored support and guidance to explore the different types of high-impact entrepreneurship, determine your path, and create your action plan
• A curated network of incubators, advisors, communities, and more to help your organization succeed

Thank you, Chris. We've looked for a duplicate, in case one was inadvertently posted, but are only seeing this one. In any event, we hope that the information contained in the post is helpful and would encourage all interested to apply to the program.

Thank you for the friendly flag. HIP welcomes all applicants to the Impact Accelerator Program regardless of hemisphere, country, or timezone.

Thank you for your question. Since its inception, HIP has been dedicated to finding the most effective ways to maximize impact by empowering working professionals. Our journey started with a focus on corporate fundraising, but after trialing various strategies and gathering insights, we found that on the margin, talent holds the most transformative potential today. Through an iterative approach—testing hypotheses and refining our programs—we uncovered that connecting skilled professionals with high-impact roles offered the greatest leverage.

This led us to launch two new initiatives in 2023: the Impact Accelerator Program (IAP) and the Talent Directory (TD). Designed to channel skilled professionals toward high-impact roles, these programs tested our hypothesis that talent transitions could yield substantial, lasting impact.

The results have been exciting. In 2023, our pilot round of the IAP helped facilitate 5 career transitions, and we saw the potential to scale. This year, we expanded significantly - starting with around 20 people in IAP 1 and growing 6.5x to reach approximately 130 participants in 2024, including the 50 current IAP 4 participants whose career transitions will contribute to our impact for the year. Each round has built upon the last, with constant improvements aimed at supporting professionals in impactful career transitions. One of those improvements is the addition of the Pledge Partnership, which we started in July 2024.

Our TD has also shown promising growth. So far, we know of 12 confirmed hires through the TD, though we expect the actual number may be higher as not all participants report back. We anticipate that as awareness of the TD grows, so too will the number of successful placements, with potential for even greater impact as more organizations and professionals become engaged.

Our vision for 2025 is to continue scaling the IAP and TD, reaching more professionals, inspiring more transitions, and expanding our pledge community.

Thanks, @Denkenberger! We've been excited by the results we're seeing and are always pushing for that number to go even higher. That success rate is due to some features of the program, including a network of amazing people who push each other to do more and the program's holistic approach to high-impact careers from high-absorbancy paths to more niche selective opportunities.

Hi, Chris. Thanks for your question. We’re giving that possibility serious consideration and may release the content more broadly in the (potentially near) future. If we do, we will be sure to let the EA community know via the Forum and other channels. Though not nearly as robust as the full content, for the time being, please feel free to refer to the FAQ section of the IAP page on our website for an overview of each of the program's core 6 weeks: https://www.highimpactprofessionals.org/impact-accelerator-program.

Hey Sarah,

Great question. Short answer is we don't know as we haven't gotten feedback loops on it.

We proactively shared the list of candidates with many organizations who were interested and also added the list of candidates to our talent directory so there is still the potential for further matches, but without the feedback loops it is hard to be more concrete. 

We will do a broader survey to organizations and to sign ups later in the year to see how many matches were facilited but it is quite costly to do so so we've prioritized getting new features out.

Hope this is helpful.

Great! This project looks really interesting!

Yes! This is the right answer. We have a question about this on the sign up form and plan on forwarding those interested to the EA good governance project.