Ambitious Impact: lightning talks featuring newly incubated charities | EAG London: 2024

EAG Talks

Hear updates from charities incubated by Ambitious Impact (AIM) working on topics including fundraising for animal welfare work, tobacco policy and maternal health. Learn about the innovative ways to contribute and low-hanging fruit in global health and development and animal welfare. Klau Chmielowska is the co-founder and co-executive director of Lafiya Nigeria, a highly effective charity providing family planning counselling and access to contraception in northern Nigeria. With a degree in Philosophy, Politics, and Economics from the University of Oxford, Klau combines their expertise in global development with a passion for building scalable and highly impactful poverty interventions. José Mallén has been involved in effective altruism since 2015 and in animal advocacy since the mid-90s. He works at Animal Ask as Global Stakeholder Engagement Coordinator. Animal Ask is a Charity Entrepreneurship incubated, UK-based group that supports organisations with in-depth, cross-comparative research to support decision making towards the most promising opportunities for animals. José is currently focused on helping connect researchers, advocates and funders to build an ever-expanding knowledge base. A generalist, he is interested in animal movement-centric approaches to R&D and in near-term and long-term theories of change. Thom Norman is the co-founder of FarmKind, a new effective giving organisation launched out of the Charity Entrepreneurship incubation program in April 2024. Farmed animal welfare is woefully underfunded, with global resources of less than 30 cents of funding per animal killed in the US alone. FarmKind's mission is to help reduce the funding gaps for some of the best evidenced-effective organisations in the space. Supriya is the co-founder and Executive Director of Ansh. Supriya has worked in multiple roles for non-profits across the UK, the US, and India. During the second wave of COVID-19 in India, she co-founded a helpline that established a supply chain network for medicines, oxygen, and other essential medical services for vulnerable families. She also worked at Suvita, a charity incubated by Charity Entrepreunership, to increase the uptake of routine vaccinations in Bihar and Maharashtra. Supriya holds a Master's in Criminological Research from the University of Cambridge and a Bachelor's in Forensic Psychology from John Jay College of Criminal Justice. The final talk is from the co-founder of Concentric, a policy NGO launched through the Charity Entrepreneurship-AIM incubation program. Hailing from California, he attended the University of Maryland and created his own degree through the university's most selective academic program. He has experience living and working in the conflict zone of Congo for an all-Congolese NGO, as well as, starting a small business in Goma, Congo. He is passionate about political system reform, especially in the United States