Category: Nonprofit

In this post, we explore how WestCare—a worldwide family of nonprofit organizations providing treatment and rehabilitation, mental health and wellness, emergency support, housing opportunities, education and prevention, criminal justice, domestic violence, and veterans services—uses AWS services to transform healthcare delivery and reduce administrative burden.

CTrees is a nonprofit organization on a mission to track carbon in every living tree on Earth to accelerate natural climate solutions. In 2024, CTrees secured the AWS Imagine Grant, combining cash funding and cloud credits to enhance the organization’s flagship Jurisdictional monitor, report, and verify (JMRV) tool. This free, open data platform provides precise annual measurements of carbon stocks, forest area, emissions, and land use activities—revolutionizing how governments and organizations track climate policy progress and develop jurisdictional carbon credit programs.

In an era where scientific discovery transcends borders, cloud computing is helping advance how researchers collaborate and innovate across the globe. Now available for download, The Value of Utilizing Cloud Service Providers for Open Science Research report—produced by Hyperion Research and sponsored by AWS— explores how and why researchers use cloud to accelerate open science research. Read this post to learn more.

We are entering an era when conservationists don’t just have more data available, they also have far more powerful ways to connect it, collaborate with it, and drive meaningful outcomes through it. From rainforests to oceans, and across the entire surface of the earth, innovative organizations are using data to accelerate conservation outcomes with game-changing results.

In this post, you’ll see how the nonprofit Bible ministry, Truth For Life, built a cost-optimized viewer analytics pipeline on AWS to gain new insights on their followers and help develop new growth strategies.

In this post, we explore some of the stories shared by public sector innovators at the AWS Imagine for Nonprofits conferences in London and Sydney, which illustrate the transformative power of cloud technology when applied thoughtfully to address significant challenges and advance mission delivery.

The National Rural Electric Cooperative Association (NRECA) recently completed a migration from a traditional on-premises data center and began using AWS Cloud services. Originally planned for five years, NRECA finished in four. Like most technology, it wasn’t as simple as flipping a switch, but if your organization is considering a similar move, hopefully the NRECA’s experience can act as a guide. Read this post to learn more.

Read this post to learn how Zearn improved students’ learning experience with Amazon Polly, a scalable, high-quality text-to-speech (TTS) solution from AWS that offers human-sounding voices, Spanish-language support, and seamless API integration.

In this post, we walk through creating a Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG)–powered chat assistant using Amazon SageMaker AI and Amazon Kendra to query donor data on AWS.

Read this post to learn how Change.org built a next-generation recommender on AWS that turned more awareness into action—boosting petition signatures by 30 percent.