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Grants for nonprofits
Our goal is to empower nonprofit organizations to prioritize technology as a mission-critical component of their projects by providing support for organizations pursuing technology-driven goals. As part of the program, we are seeking proposals for pilot projects, proofs of concept, or existing programs that utilize technology in a new or expanded way.
AWS IMAGINE Grant in the U.S.
AWS IMAGINE Grant offers three distinct award categories for 501 (c) nonprofits based in the United States to receive support based on their organizational goals and the stage in their technology adoption journeys.
The Pathfinder – Generative AI Award
The Pathfinder — Generative AI award will provide support for a highly innovative, mission-critical project that leverages generative AI. This project will have the potential to produce a scaled, repeatable solution that directly accelerates mission achievement and may impact an entire industry or field. Projects in the Pathfinder category may include service types mentioned in the Go Further, Faster and Momentum to Modernize awards, but must include the use of generative AI as a required additional workload. Pathfinder projects must be building on existing data strategy and foundation, and the generative AI use case is already defined with implementation in the planning phase (or later).
Award package includes:
- Up to $200,000 USD of unrestricted financial support
- Up to $100,000 USD in AWS Promotional Credit
- Project implementation support from the AWS Generative AI Innovation Center
- Access to AWS training and support
- An opportunity for AWS marketing promotion
The Go Further, Faster Award
The Go Further, Faster award will provide support for highly innovative projects that leverage the cloud. These projects will have the potential to produce scaled, repeatable solutions and may impact an entire industry or field. They will be force multipliers for organizations and will include the application of and/or seek integrations with advanced cloud services, such as artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning (ML), high performance computing (HPC), Internet of Things (IoT), and more.
Award package includes:
- Up to $150,000 USD of unrestricted financial support
- Up to $100,000 USD in AWS Promotional Credit
- Project implementation guidance from AWS technical specialist(s)
- Access to AWS training and support
- An opportunity for AWS marketing promotion
The Momentum to Modernize Award
As nonprofit organizations seek to transform and enhance their core mission operations with technology, many organizations need funding for foundational technology projects, such as migrating servers to the cloud and modernizing new and existing applications. The Momentum to Modernize award will provide funding for these transformational infrastructure projects, alongside AWS Promotional Credit and implementation support. Nonprofit organizations with specific workloads and outcomes that meet the program criteria are welcome to apply. Projects may include application migration and optimization, net-new application development, database migration and centralization, infrastructure expansion, and more.
Award package includes:
- Up to $50,000 USD of unrestricted financial support
- Up to $20,000 USD in AWS Promotional Credit
- Project implementation guidance from AWS technical specialist(s)
- Access to AWS training and support
- An opportunity for AWS marketing promotion
Explore additional AWS IMAGINE grants and awards
The AWS IMAGINE Grant program also offers the AWS IMAGINE Grant in the U.K and Ireland, and the AWS IMAGINE Grant Children's Health Innovation Award
AWS IMAGINE Grant in the U.K. & Ireland
AWS IMAGINE Grant Children’s Health Innovation Award
“Thanks to the critical support that AWS is providing us with, we're able to truly transform our platform into a digital ecosystem.”
Carolina Henriquez-Schmitz
TrustLaw Director, Thomson Reuters Foundation
“We're now going to be able to incorporate community science data, acoustic data, remote sensing data, and all kinds of other information into one database, with the help of AWS to allow us to make the best decisions for the conservation of nature.”
Sean O'Brien
CEO, NatureServe
“Working with AWS and creating a dataset that is global, that is pulling from research from the best people all over the world, will accelerate life changing breakthroughs to cure, prevent, and better treat type one diabetes.”
Aaron Kowalski
CEO, JDRF
“This collaboration will improve identification of suicide risk, expand services targeted to that risk, support risk reassessment, and improve identification in downward trends in client suicidality. AWS is playing a tangible role in life-saving work with one of the most underserved communities in the mental health arena.”
Chris Ford
CEO, Stop Solider Suicide
“The process of applying for the IMAGINE Grant helped our teams think about our solution to meet the needs of breast cancer patients in a new way and ultimately emerge with clearer thinking. Thanks to the resources and support provided by AWS, we have had early success in developing a recommendation tool that will leverage AWS machine learning technology to help people affected by breast cancer find credible information, empowering them to make important choices for their health based on their unique cancer situation.”
Hope Wohl
CEO, Breastcancer.org
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