Varsha Venugopal

Each year, I think they have hundreds of research hours that they go through to identify these promising interventions, which is how they came up with conditional cash transfers as a starting point for us.

So as part of this program, they provide these two months of free training to selected entrepreneurs, and you go through quite a rigorous process to get selected.

And in addition to that, once you are through, they also offer some free legal training, a workspace.

And I think the biggest thing for me was connection to funders, peers, and advisors who continue to motivate you and ensure that you remain focused.

Yes.

So the starting point was Charity Entrepreneurship had looked into several interventions and within global health space, the intervention they had looked into was conditional cash transfers.

And I think some of this research they had already done in the past when they had looked into setting up Charity Science Health, which was focused on SMS reminders for routine immunization.

So that's where we came in saying, right, you know, SMS reminders or conditional cash transfers for routine immunization.

Is there something else that could beat that?

What they required from us was full-time commitment.

They had lectures, activities, and presentations by others in the EA development space.

So in my cohort, some of the organizations you mentioned, we had Happier Lives Institute that was focused on mental health.

We had colleagues who then went on to start Fish Welfare Initiative, Animal Ask, and animal advocacy careers.

As part of this, going through this incubation, we also interacted closely with colleagues at Fortify Health and Charity Science Health

And I think the CE support was catalytic.

I wouldn't have founded this charity in their absence.

And something I mentioned earlier, the support of funders, advisors and peers was quite instrumental in continuing to motivate us and keep us focused.

I understand CEE has incubated 18 new charities, and I think they've already fundraised $3.5 million.

So they seem to be doing something right so far.

Exactly.