A public grant opportunity open to registered nonprofit organizations who are using cloud technology to accelerate their missions.
Round One applications accepted: May 3 — June 3, 2024
IMAGINE: NONPROFIT Presented by AWS
Now available on-demand
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
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:
- AWS IMAGINE Grant in U.S.
- AWS IMAGINE Grant in U.K. & Ireland
- Download U.S. instructions › Download U.S. instructions › Download U.S. instructions ›
- 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
- 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
- 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.
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). 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:
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:
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:
The 2023-2024 AWS IMAGINE Grant recipients
The Go Further, Faster Award
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The Momentum to Modernize Award
The application cycle for the 2024 AWS IMAGINE Grant is now open.
Please download application instructions and guidelines to learn more.
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
Kennedy Center
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
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)
Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation
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.