Amazon Webs Service Imagine Grant Program in the US

Deadline: 2-Jun-25

The Amazon Webs Service (AWS) Imagine Grant Program supports nonprofit organizations with cloud technology projects.

Grant Categories

• The 2025 AWS Imagine Grant categories and award details are as follows:
  • Momentum to Modernize:
    • As nonprofit organizations seek to transform and enhance their core mission operations with technology, 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 financial support for these transformational cloud infrastructure projects, alongside AWS Promotional Credits and access to AWS training. Nonprofit organizations with specific workloads and outcomes that meet the program criteria are welcome to apply. Projects may include but are not limited to: application migration and optimization, net-new application development, infrastructure expansion, and more.
  • Go Further, Faster
    • The Go Further, Faster award will provide support for “think big”, 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 forcing multipliers for organizations and will include the application of and/or seek integrations with advanced cloud services, such as Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML), high performance computing, internet of things (IoT), and more.
  • Pathfinder – Generative AI:
    • The Pathfinder award provides support for highly innovative, mission-critical projects that leverage generative AI. A Pathfinder 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 categories, 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.

Funding Information

• Momentum to Modernize 
  • Momentum to Modernize awards packages may include:
    • 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
• Go Further, Faster 
  • Go Further, Faster awards packages may include:
    • 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
• Pathfinder – Generative AI:
  • Pathfinder awards packages may include:
    • 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

Eligible Projects

• Momentum to Modernize
  • Momentum to Modernize awards may fund the following types of projects:
    • Application modernization
    • Net-new application development
    • Data storage, disaster recovery and backup
    • Database migrations
    • Systems migrations
• Go Further, Faster 
  • Go Further, Faster awards may fund the following types of projects:
    • Initiatives that use artificial intelligence or machine learning tools on AWS
    • Projects leveraging high-performance computing (HPC) for mission areas such as genomics, conservation, health research, weather prediction, seismic imaging and many other emerging applications
    • Data lake/warehouse and big data projects
    • Organizations seeking to create an industry- or sector-wide solution or resource
• Pathfinder – Generative AI:
  • The Pathfinder award may fund projects that integrate one or more generative AI services, such as:
    • Amazon Bedrock
    • Generative AI with Amazon SageMaker
    • AWS CodeWhisperer
    • AWS HealthScribe

Eligibility Criteria

• They are seeking proposals from nonprofit organizations for pilot projects, proofs of concept, and/or new or existing programs that utilize cloud technology.
• The U.S. AWS Imagine Grant is limited to nonprofit organizations with active 501(c) IRS status. AWS welcomes all causes and mission areas to apply.
• At this time, however, educational institutions are excluded as they are outside of the AWS Imagine Grant priority funding areas.

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