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Ben Williamson

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Currently Director of Recruitment for Ambitious Impact (AIM), working to find exceptionally talented and dedicated new founders for our programs, including our flagship Charity Entreprenurship Incubation Program. We offer training, mentorship, and funding for multiple high-impact career paths, launching organisations such as LEEP, FEM and the Shrimp Welfare Initiative.

Previously, I was Director of Partnerships and Field Operations for the Maternal Health Initiative (https://​​maternalhealthinitiative.org), a global health charity training healthcare workers in lower-income contexts on family planning counseling. I co-founded MHI in September 2022 with Sarah Eustis-Guthrie out of the Charity Entrepreneurship Incubation Programme.

Prior to that, I founded Effective Self-Help (https://​​effectiveselfhelp.org) a research organisation studying the most effective ways people can improve their wellbeing and productivity. I’ve also worked about 20 jobs before all this mostly much less relevant to impactful work, from music festivals and call centers to vineyards and youth counseling.

Ap­ply­ing to EA orgs? My thoughts as a new re­cruiter with AIM

Amalie Farestvedt 🔸20 Oct 2025 10:22 UTC
99 points
5 comments7 min readEA link

Char­ity En­trepreneur­ship is bot­tle­necked by a lack of great an­i­mal founders

Ben Williamson29 Sep 2025 15:14 UTC
191 points
34 comments5 min readEA link

AIM is look­ing for a free­lance de­sign con­trac­tor

Ben Williamson4 Mar 2025 17:08 UTC
19 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

Lead bat­ter­ies, differ­en­tial learn­ing, and liveli­hoods—AIM’s new recom­mended char­ity ideas

Ben Williamson19 Feb 2025 15:48 UTC
71 points
8 comments13 min readEA link

The Broad Value of Copy­edit­ing as a Skill

Ben Williamson3 Dec 2024 3:49 UTC
19 points
1 comment4 min readEA link

In­tro­duc­ing four brand-new char­i­ties! Here’s the fall co­hort of the Char­ity En­trepreneur­ship In­cu­ba­tion Pro­gram.

Ambitious Impact8 Nov 2024 13:33 UTC
103 points
11 comments7 min readEA link

Think­ing About De­ci­sions as a Weighted Fac­tor Model

Joey🔸30 Oct 2024 15:29 UTC
63 points
5 comments5 min readEA link

AIM is hiring for 4 roles

Ben Williamson2 Oct 2024 8:23 UTC
52 points
1 comment2 min readEA link
(www.ambitiousimpact.com)

AMA with AIM’s Direc­tor of Re­cruit­ment (and MHI co-founder), Ben Williamson

Ben Williamson19 Aug 2024 7:03 UTC
51 points
16 comments2 min readEA link

Pre­sent­ing five new effec­tive giv­ing initiatives

Ambitious Impact13 Aug 2024 16:37 UTC
193 points
12 comments8 min readEA link

Our Recom­mended Char­ity Ideas for Fe­bru­ary 2025

Ambitious Impact7 Aug 2024 11:59 UTC
85 points
9 comments4 min readEA link
(www.charityentrepreneurship.com)

Ap­pli­ca­tions Now Open for AIM’s 2025 Pro­grams

Ambitious Impact25 Jul 2024 13:16 UTC
92 points
1 comment6 min readEA link

Ta­lent iden­ti­fi­ca­tion as an un­der­ap­pre­ci­ated ca­reer op­tion

Ambitious Impact27 May 2024 14:09 UTC
50 points
1 comment4 min readEA link

Ma­ter­nal Health Ini­ti­a­tive is Shut­ting Down

Ben Williamson15 Mar 2024 17:19 UTC
392 points
19 comments20 min readEA link

Ma­ter­nal Health Ini­ti­a­tive—Marginal Fund­ing & 1st Year in Review

Ben Williamson15 Nov 2023 12:39 UTC
59 points
6 comments11 min readEA link

[Job] In­ter­na­tional Gen­er­al­ist at Ma­ter­nal Health Initiative

Sarah Eustis-Guthrie25 May 2023 9:26 UTC
28 points
1 comment3 min readEA link

In­tro­duc­ing the Ma­ter­nal Health Initiative

Ben Williamson31 Mar 2023 14:19 UTC
110 points
7 comments5 min readEA link

Fam­ily Plan­ning: A Sig­nifi­cant Op­por­tu­nity for Impact

Sarah Eustis-Guthrie12 Aug 2022 0:01 UTC
100 points
9 comments14 min readEA link

Three les­sons I’ve learnt from start­ing a small EA org

Ben Williamson23 Jun 2022 12:27 UTC
31 points
1 comment8 min readEA link

A database of effec­tive pro­duc­tivity recommendations

Ben Williamson17 Jun 2022 15:42 UTC
104 points
11 comments5 min readEA link