“AIM’s first ever dedicated animal welfare incubation program (applications open!)” by Aidan Alexander, Aaron Boddy🔸, Ambitious Impact

TL;DR: Applications are open for AIM's first ever animal-only incubation round. The program runs February 2027, and it is different from any round we've run before: we’ve rebuilt the research process with animal welfare in mind, recommending frontier problems rather than fully-scoped solutions, there is a new funded three-month exploration phase after the core program, and two weeks in San Francisco alongside the movement's biggest funders and thinkers. Aaron Boddy (co-founder of Shrimp Welfare Project) has joined to help design and run it. Applications close 13th September. -- A few months ago, we wrote about why now might be the best time ever to start an animal charity. In short: the bottlenecks that limited us to incubating roughly two to four animal charities a year are easing on both sides, us finding more superstar founders excited to work on animal welfare and mid-stage funding becoming less of a limiting factor than it was a few years ago. Meanwhile, the animal movement needs more new interventions and organizations in the pipeline so that efforts to fix factory farming can scale in the coming years. The low-hanging fruit hasn't been picked because barely anyone is in the orchard: Incubating more trailblazing [...] ---Outline:(01:41) What's different about this round(06:08) More on "frontier problems"(07:42) The research process(08:21) Illustrative examples we're excited about(08:50) Welfare tech(09:31) Enabling primary animal welfare research.(10:14) Talent meta-charities.(10:48) Neglected animal populations.(11:19) You don't need to be an "animal person"(11:41) Key dates and how to apply(11:45) The animal round(12:34) But what about other cause areas? The original text contained 1 footnote which was omitted from this narration. --- First published: August 3rd, 2026 Source: https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/MsH3w5FdmEjr2aE7b/aim-s-first-ever-dedicated-animal-welfare-incubation-program --- Narrated by TYPE III AUDIO.