AWS Public Sector Blog
Author: Alex Dinnouti
Alex Dinnouti is a technical program manager on the Amazon Web Service (AWS) for nonprofits team. Before joining AWS he was the head of information technology solutions at Conservation International. He has a masters in software engineering and his retirement dream is working for open-source projects with nonprofit mission impact.
Building innovative solutions to help nonprofits with fundraising, content delivery, and mission delivery
Nonprofits and cultural institutions need support to serve and deliver impact to our local and global communities. Amazon’s Raise-up Buildathon, presented by AWS, empowered developers, technology enthusiasts, and advocates to build cloud solutions that enhance digital capabilities to help with fundraising, content delivery, and mission delivery. The majority of the winning solutions are available to nonprofits and cultural institutions via open source. Learn more about what these solutions can do, from donor management to augmented reality, to improving how you reach out to constituents to expand your donation stream.
Optimizing nonprofits’ costs in the cloud
Now more than ever, nonprofits have to optimize their costs and stretch their funds to maximize dollars invested in their mission. Often, nonprofits evaluate efficiency based on their operating expenses. For many, this means turning to the cloud to eliminate the upfront costs of buying servers and building data centers. With the cloud, nonprofits can better understand their bills, uncover foundational strategies for optimizing costs, set up budget alerts, and track costs and usage so they only spend on resources that they need.