Non-Trivial is a UK nonprofit that empowers exceptional high schoolers to engage with global challenges before they face career-constraining decisions like university major selection. Through a tiered fellowship model — Research Foundations, Research Fellows, and Research Scholars — participants conduct self-directed research on topics ranging from AI safety to global health, supported by expert mentors, university-student facilitators, and grants. The organization is EA-adjacent in philosophy but does not require prior EA knowledge, instead focusing on building the capacity and motivation of talented young people to work on high-impact problems.
Funding Details
- Annual Budget
- $600,000
- Monthly Burn Rate
- $50,000
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Theory of Change
Non-Trivial operates on the premise that talented young people, if exposed early to effective altruism-adjacent frameworks and global priority problems, will be more likely to direct their careers toward high-impact work. By intervening before college major selection and early career lock-in, the organization aims to expand the pipeline of future researchers, policymakers, and entrepreneurs working on AI safety, biosecurity, global health, and related fields. Mentorship, scholarships, peer community, and project experience help participants build both the skills and the motivation to pursue meaningful careers. The causal chain runs: identify high-potential teenagers globally, introduce them to important and neglected problems, support self-directed research, connect them to expert networks, and thereby increase the long-run supply of talented people tackling existential and catastrophic risks.
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- Last Updated
- Apr 2, 2026, 10:10 PM UTC
- Created
- Mar 19, 2026, 10:32 PM UTC