AWS IMAGINE Grant
A public grant opportunity open to registered nonprofit organizations who are using cloud technology to accelerate their missions.
Grants for nonprofits
Imagine a better world: 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 award categories
As part of the AWS IMAGINE Grant program, we are seeking proposals from eligible nonprofits that fit the requirements below:
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AWS IMAGINE Children's Health Innovation Award
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AWS IMAGINE Grant in U.S.
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AWS IMAGINE Grant in U.K. & Ireland
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AWS IMAGINE Children's Health Innovation Award
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CloseFor nonprofit organisations advancing think big, mission-critical projects in the cloudAWS IMAGINE Children’s Health Innovation Award
The AWS IMAGINE Children’s Health Innovation Award (CHIA) is designed to accelerate cloud-based children’s health innovation using advanced services such as generative AI. While children’s health is an area of broad and passionate advocacy, it is traditionally underfunded. The CHIA seeks to bring more focus and attention to a wide variety of causes and care organizations helping children live longer, healthier lives, and give the gift of time, through the strategic use of cloud technology.
We are seeking proposals for pilot projects, proofs of concept, and/or existing programs that utilize innovative applications of advanced cloud services to accelerate pediatric research, advance maternal child total health, and/or empower pediatric workforce and caregivers. This award category is by invitation only in 2024.
Award package includes:
- Up to $200,000 USD of unrestricted financial support
- Up to $150,000 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
*AWS reserves the right to determine actual awarded amounts at its sole discretion.
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AWS IMAGINE Grant in U.S.
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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.
CloseFor nonprofit organizations with highly innovative, mission-critical projects that leverage generative AI.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). The Pathfinder — Generative AI award includes unrestricted cash funding, AWS Promotional Credit, AWS marketing support, and implementation support from the AWS Generative AI Innovation Center.
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
CloseFor nonprofit organizations advancing think big, mission-critical projects in the cloudThe 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. The Go Further, Faster award includes unrestricted cash funding, AWS Promotional Credit, AWS marketing support, engagement with AWS technical specialists, 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
CloseFor nonprofit organizations accelerating modernization and digital transformation efforts in the cloudThe 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
*AWS reserves the right to determine actual awarded amounts at its sole discretion.
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AWS IMAGINE Grant in U.K. & Ireland
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The AWS IMAGINE Grant offers one distinct award category for United Kingdom and Ireland nonprofit organisations with active registered charity number status to receive support based on their organisational goals and the stage in their technology adoption journeys. As part of the program, we are seeking proposals from eligible nonprofits that fit the requirements below:
CloseFor nonprofit organisations advancing think big, mission-critical projects in the cloudThe 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 organisations 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. The Go Further, Faster award includes cash funding, AWS Promotional Credits, AWS marketing support, engagement with AWS technical specialists, and more.
Award package includes:
- Up to $50,000 USD of financial support
- Up to $16,000 USD in AWS Promotional Credits
- Project kickoff workshop and implementation support from AWS technical specialist(s)
- An opportunity for AWS marketing promotion
*AWS reserves the right to determine actual awarded amounts at its sole discretion.
The 2023-2024 AWS IMAGINE Grant recipients
The Go Further, Faster Award
Bat Conservation Trust is creating an end-to-end data pipeline to record environmental soundscapes to enhance its automated sound classification system, Sound Classification System v2. By leveraging a scalable data warehouse and AI/ML, Sound Classification System v2 will be used as an open-source model to process other types of big biodiversity data.
Crisis Text Line is developing applications based on large language models (LLMs), to enhance highly-nuanced crisis conversations at a level of depth and speed not attainable in the past, ultimately decreasing time to intervention for individuals at risk of harming themselves or others.
CTrees is extending the capability of its open source carbon emissions data set by integrating higher image resolution, ingesting more satellite data, and improving frontend visualization using deep learning AI with a goal of filling a gap in data on carbon in forests and ecosystems to help protect our planet.
Data Friendly Space is creating a generative AI-powered virtual assistant for humanitarian staff operating in fast-paced, rapidly changing environments. In doing so, humanitarian responders will be equipped with GANNET (Guided Assistance and Navigation for Needs and Emergency Tasks) to access, extract, and visualize life-saving information to boost the timeliness, effectiveness, and accuracy of humanitarian responses worldwide.
Fair Trade USA is combining the power of AI and ML and their rich data warehouse to allow their partners to better evaluate supply chain risks and see their impact in the existing Partner Portal. These insights will create even more value for partners and attract new business, thus expanding impact to countless more families via increased incomes, cleaner environments, and life-changing capacity building and empowerment programs.
The Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center designed Cirro, a cloud-native Analysis and Information Management System (AIMS), for the life sciences sector within academic and research institutions to accelerate research while fostering collaboration. Using cutting-edge cloud capabilities, the system simplifies the ingestion, storage, batch processing, ad-hoc analysis, visualization, and distribution of scientific data to unite innovative research in preventing and eliminating cancer and infectious diseases.
National Biodiversity Network Trust is modernizing their National Biodiversity Network Atlas which will accelerate the time between submission and publication of data, getting information in the hands faster to the UK conservation community.
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Rowcroft House Foundation Ltd is creating a state-of-the-art independent living digital monitoring system, leveraging AI/ML to enhance the lives of their residence and family members.
Second Harvest Food Bank of Northwest North Carolina is building a comprehensive cloud-based food banking system across the food bank sector by unifying data from 48 different software systems with data warehouse and generative AI. This will drastically improve how we approach food banking by offering comprehensive insights via a user-friendly, intuitive dashboard for staff and clients alike.
Orbis International is expanding its AI-assisted technology for millions of people in low-resource areas to screen for diabetic retinopathy and glaucoma. This will redefine what is possible during vision screening processes for underserved communities in low- and middle-income countries, with the goal of eradicating avoidable blindness and vision loss globally.
Scholarship America is unifying its large data repositories and applying analytics and visualization for deep, detailed, and actionable insights to help fuel new research and identify best practices in scholarship administration, working towards true equity and socio-economic mobility for students nationwide.
TED Foundation is creating personalized learning paths, better content discovery, and new opportunities for community building by leveraging generative AI to enhance the user experience around its original TED talks and podcasts, as well as new consumer engagement features, for millions of individuals seeking to spark ideas, foster community, and have a positive impact online and around the world.
UNCF (United Negro College Fund) is working with Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) to build HBCUv, a learning management ecosystem that seeks to reimagine Black education. Designed to provide high quality and culturally rich online learning experiences - both inside and outside of the classroom - HBCUv will launch its course sharing network and community engagement platform in 2024.
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Who We Play For is building an AI-powered interpretation tool for pediatric electrocardiograms (ECGs) to prevent sudden cardiac arrests among children, which would ultimately revolutionize the way healthcare professionals diagnose and treat heart conditions in children.
The Momentum to Modernize Award
Charity Navigator is modernizing its data systems, streamlining data processing, and incorporating advanced analytics and visualization tools into its infrastructure, enabling them to offer a more comprehensive overview of charitable organizations.
DoSomething is modernizing its data systems, streamlining data processing, and incorporating advanced analytics and visualization tools into its infrastructure, enabling them to offer a more comprehensive overview of charitable organizations.
Greenwood Genetic Center is building a unified data platform by integrating clinical, genomic, and diagnostic data from several systems into a single data warehouse, helping create a comprehensive view of patient data to shorten the time to diagnosis and enable personalized research to better serve patients and their families across the lifespan.
Ronald McDonald House New York is building a data warehouse to centralize its data sources and more easily apply analytics to gain additional insights. This will enable RMH-NY to perform advanced analytics and expedite feedback loops to improve health outcomes for low-income medically complex families.
The Aspen Institute is redeveloping its web platform and user functionalities with microservices, serverless, and other modern cloud services. This will improve audience engagement with the Institute and with each other to collaborate and solve real problems facing their communities and the world.
The Chicago Lighthouse for People Who are Blind or Visually Impaired is updating their technology and implementing an end-to-end supply chain platform for their Industries program with data lake and visualization. In doing so, they are able to increase revenue and direct additional resources to enhance essential job training and employment for Chicago’s blind and visually impaired community.
World Resources Institute Data Lab is standardizing and improving technical processes across the organization by building a unified data infrastructure for data science and product development. This will improve the coherence, consistency, and governance of data analysis and delivery across the Institute to ultimately translate science into action in service of people, nature, and climate.
Ravinia Festival is improving operational efficiency and cybersecurity by connecting a Virtual Private Cloud to its 36-acre campus, migrating mission-critical servers to the VPC, and initiating disaster recovery services at AWS. In doing so, Ravinia will deliver a more resilient customer experience for the over 600,000 patrons who enjoy North America’s oldest and most musically diverse music festival.
Society for Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging is aiming to transform precision nuclear medicine for diagnosis and therapy, and ultimately improve oncology patient outcomes, by launching a cloud-based imaging database and developing machine learning algorithms to train new models.
The Guthrie Clinic is enhancing the disaster recovery capabilities of their healthcare system by implementing a robust cloud-based solution. With a focus on patient care continuity and data security, they will transition from existing on-premises disaster recovery system to a scalable, cost-effective, and reliable cloud-based infrastructure.
One Simple Wish is increasing the reliability, scalability and security of their online wish-granting platform by undergoing a complete transformation of their front-end functionality and back-end infrastructure. This will allow them to impact the lives of hundreds of thousands more individuals that have been impacted by foster care and crisis as well as enhance relevant and customized communication with their vast network of community partners and supporters nationwide.
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African American Credit Union Coalition is building a comprehensive data gathering and analysis system for Savings And Credit Cooperative Organizations in Africa to collect and aggregate accurate insights into how underserved populations can access more aid to build savings and credit.
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“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
Powerful stories of past AWS IMAGINE Grant winners
Learn more about the recipients for the AWS IMAGINE Grant for Nonprofits.
The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts
The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts is innovating its fundraising practices by leveraging a data warehouse and AI/ML to expand, diversify, and personalize its donor outreach. To accomplish this, they created the KC Score, a first-of-its-kind platform to develop a multi-faceted view of their constituent data, allowing them to effectively and efficiently uncover new major gift prospects and prioritize donors for front-line fundraising teams.
Save the Children
Save the Children is democratizing access to key information and knowledge in times of crisis by leveraging a data lake and AI/ML. The Ask Save the Children application will allow any parent, teacher, or public official to query Save the Children’s 100 years of knowledge on keeping children safe in a crisis, driving its mission to give every child the bright future they deserve.
Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation (EGPAF)
EGPAF is advancing patient retention, prevention and treatment for pediatric AIDS by using AL/ML to create predictive modeling for its HIV/AIDS data lake in Malawi. The model will predict patient outcomes for the clinicians providing HIV services, enabling them to make sound decisions and adjust care and treatment approaches in real-time.