AWS Imagine Grant

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 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.

AWS Imagine Grant award categories:

The Pathfinder — Generative AI award will provide support for a highly innovative, mission-critical project that leverages generative AI. This project will potentially 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 built 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.

The 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 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.

The 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.

The 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