AWS for Nonprofits and NGOs
Using technology to drive mission impact and innovation
Amazon Web Services (AWS) is dedicated to a world where every person has the opportunity to live a life of dignity on a healthy planet. Tens of thousands of nonprofits and non-governmental organizations worldwide use AWS to increase their impact and advance mission goals.
Whether you are working to improve the performance of donor-facing websites, enhancing data practices through managed databases and analytics, propelling research through machine learning, or improving remote monitoring with the Internet of Things (IoT), AWS is here to help.
Grants and mission empowerment
These programs are designed to enable organizations of all sizes to overcome barriers to technology adoption, while enhancing the scale, performance, and capabilities of mission operations.
AWS IMAGINE Grant Program
The AWS IMAGINE Grant Program is a public grant opportunity, up to $150,000.00 USD, open to registered 501(c) nonprofit organizations in the U.S. who are using technology to solve the world’s most pressing challenges.
AWS Nonprofit Credit Program
The AWS Credit Program provides access to $1,000 in AWS Promotional Credits, enabling nonprofits to implement cloud-based solutions and meet their mission goals without upfront investment in physical infrastructure.
Nonprofit Technical Hub
Where your nonprofit is just starting its cloud journey or developing strategies to transform mission delivery, AWS can help you navigate opportunities to skill up, dive deep, and leverage the cloud to increase your reach and impact.
Amazon Research Awards
The Amazon Research Awards (ARA) program collaborates with scientists to fund research, share knowledge, and encourage innovation. ARA offers unrestricted funds and AWS Promotional Credit to support research at nonprofits in areas that advance ground-breaking science.
AWS Disaster Response
The AWS Disaster Response Action Team allows customers to focus on mission-critical functions, while AWS provisions critical data and applications, transports hardware to the base of operations, and implements deployable infrastructure based on customer need.
Open Data on AWS
When data is shared on AWS, anyone can analyze it and build services on top of it using a broad range of compute and data analytics products. Sharing data in the cloud lets data users spend more time on data analysis rather than data acquisition.
Experience IMAGINE: Nonprofit again
Discover how nonprofit leaders are driving digital transformation to reach their mission-critical goals in on-demand sessions from our IMAGINE: Nonprofit conference. These engaging stories explore the challenges and opportunities that nonprofits face. See how AWS enables them to gain unique insights and deepen their impact in their communities.
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Benefits
Enrich community services
Accelerate research
Research institutions around the world are leveraging AWS to quickly analyze massive data pipelines, store petabytes of data, and advance research using transformative technologies like artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning (ML), and quantum. AWS also provides researchers with access to open datasets, funding, and training to accelerate the pace of innovation and support ground-breaking research.
Power your global mission
Preserve culture and history
Arts and cultural organizations are capitalizing on AWS and developing new methods to support their institutions, preserve history, and inspire communities. Whether you are looking to enhance digital engagement or preserve the past for the future, AWS has supported nonprofits in helping them effectively store and activate artifacts to ensure the arts can continue to educate and inspire for years to come.
Enhance financial services
AWS provides financial services institutions and nonprofits with financial services programs the secure, resilient cloud infrastructure and services required to meet the needs of today and adapt to the needs of tomorrow. Building on AWS empowers organizations to modernize their infrastructure, meet rapidly changing beneficiary and customer behaviors and expectations, and drive growth.
Focus on what matters
Working within tight budgets, nonprofits juggle the day-to-day of IT operations with their essential workloads. With the AWS Cloud, nonprofits can scale and modernize infrastructure so they can focus on what matters most. With the help of AWS Nonprofit Competency Partners, customers can quickly and securely leverage technology to support fundraising, program management, and more.
Best Friends Animal Society
Best Friends Animal Society (BFAS) has sought to transform the adoption experience by focusing its efforts on building a comprehensive network, creating community-based, lifesaving coalitions in different parts of the country, and transforming how people identify, connect with, and adopt pets. A crucial element of BFAS’ success and ability to drive innovative new programs is its top-down focus on data.
Rock and Roll Hall of Fame
The Rock & Roll Hall of Fame (Rock Hall) is a nonprofit organization whose archival collections includes millions of documents, handwritten lyric and song manuscripts, correspondence, contracts, photographs, posters, audio and video concert recordings, recorded interviews, and video files chronicling the evolution of rock music. Learn how they are using S3 to modernize digital asset management.
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
Using Amazon Web Services (AWS) and open-source software, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center (Fred Hutch) built a single, user-friendly, browser-based solution, Motuz, to streamline and simplify upload of large quantities of data. Motuz helped Fred Hutch de-silo its data and make it shareable and accessible.
Kiva
SkyTruth
Nonprofit customer success spotlights around the world
Actions matter. Take a look at the ways nonprofits are using AWS to accomplish their missions.
Customers around the world rely on AWS to power their missions. From the classroom to the oceans, travel with us to hear organizations use technology to help make the world a better place.
Africam uses live streaming cameras in the African safari to create direct connections for nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) working to curb poaching and those who want to help.
Explore the technology that links small holder rice farmers with financial services with their innovative ecosystem.
Explore how technology is helping to integrate refugees into the German workforce and their culture.
See more stories on our AWS Nonprofits Playlist and Customer Success page.
One Amazon
Businesses across Amazon invest in the nonprofit community. Explore the links below to learn about how these businesses are catering to nonprofits, building programs, and increasing social impact.
Accelerate sustainability research and innovation by minimizing the cost and time required to acquire and analyze large sustainability datasets.
Work side-by-side with community partners to find solutions to the world’s most pressing challenges and build long-term, innovative programs that have a lasting, positive impact.
With the AWS Cloud, nonprofits can scale and automate necessary backend tasks, so they can focus on what matters most.
Unlock, connect, and transform data into actionable insights that improve patient outcomes.
Everyday, we donate 50,000 items to help people in need.
Amazon Advertising helps grow organizations and brands of all sizes.
Discounted Business Prime for nonprofits: Save money and achieve your mission.
Customer Shop. Amazon Gives.
Giving is easy.
Helping people launch careers in the cloud.
Innovative cloud-based solutions to help organizations lower IT costs, manage risk, and improve efficiency.