Applications for Cloud Technology to Solve World's Pressing Challenges

Amazon Web Services is inviting applications for its AWS Imagine Grant, a public grant opportunity open to registered 501(c)(3) nonprofit organizations in the United States using cloud technology to solve the world's most pressing challenges.

The goal of AWS is to empower nonprofit organizations to prioritize technology as a mission-critical component of their projects and provide support for organizations pursuing technology-driven goals. As part of the program, AWS seeks proposals for pilot projects, proofs of concept, or existing programs that utilize technology in a new or expanded way. The program offers two distinct award categories for nonprofits to receive support based on their organizational goals and the stage in their technology adoption journeys. As part of the program, it is seeking proposals from eligible nonprofits that fit the requirements below:

The Go Further, Faster Award: Will provide support for highly innovative projects that leverage the cloud. These projects will potentially 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, Internet of Things (IoT), and more. This award package includes up to $150,000 of unrestricted financial support, up to $100,000 in AWS promotional credit, a project kickoff workshop and implementation guidance from AWS technical specialist(s), up to five AWS training services vouchers, and an opportunity for AWS marketing promotion.

The Momentum to Modernize Award: Will provide funding for transformational infrastructure projects, such as migrating servers to the cloud and modernizing new and existing applications. 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, data warehouse projects, infrastructure expansion, etc. This award package includes up to $30,000 of unrestricted financial support, up to $10,000 in AWS promotional credit, project implementation guidance from AWS technical specialist(s), and an opportunity for AWS marketing promotion.

Eligible organizations include 501(c)(3) nonprofit organizations in the United States.

Round one applications will be accepted between May 1 and June 1, 2022, and selected applicants will be invited to submit round two applications, due September 15, 2022.

For complete program guidelines and application instructions, see the Amazon Web Services website.