The AWS Imagine Grant is a public grant opportunity open to registered 501(c) nonprofit organizations in the U.S. who are using cloud technology to accelerate their missions.
Donor Name: AWS
State: All States
County: All Counties
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 06/02/2025
Size of the Grant: $100,000 to $500,000
Grant Duration: Grant Duration Not Mentioned
Details:
Now in its eighth year, the program offers financial support, AWS Promotional Credit, and engagement with AWS technical specialists to help nonprofits harness the power of technology.
Types of Award
- 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:
- 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.
Eligibility Criteria
The U.S. AWS IMAGINE Grant is limited to U.S. nonprofit organizations with active 501(c) IRS status.
Evaluation Criteria
AWS will judge proposals based on factors that include:
- Innovative and unique nature of the project;
- Impact on mission achievement;
- Clearly defined outcomes and milestones;
- Detailing and applicability of AWS Services within the project scope;
- Viability of proposed sustainability plan;
- Comprehensiveness of organization’s proposal and information requested;
- Submission of proposal in correct format and within the deadline.
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