AWS for Nonprofits & NGOs
Using technology to solve the world's most pressing issues
Tens of thousands of nonprofits and non-governmental organizations worldwide use AWS to build highly available, scalable websites, host core business and employee-facing systems, and manage donor outreach and fundraising efforts.
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Helping to End Future Famines with Machine Learning
The United Nations, World Bank, and International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) with support from Amazon Web Services and other technology companies, recently launched the Famine Action Mechanism (FAM). The FAM is the first global mechanism dedicated to preventing future famines.
Top Takeaways from the AWS Public Sector Breakfast at re:Invent
At re:Invent, the AWS Public Sector Breakfast focused on tech for good. Read below for the key takeaways.
How to Share Data (Hint: “Thoughtfully”)
Sharing data requires more than just making it available for download or creating an API to access it. In many ways, sharing data is similar to shipping a software product. Just like software, data is made up of digital information. It requires documentation, its users may require support, and it may become essential to those users.
Best Practices to Accelerate Cloud Adoption and Migration in the Public Sector
Public sector customers work on transformative and high-impact projects, but each organization is unique. Although their geography, mission, or size varies widely, their big thinking about how the cloud can improve or modernize services is a constant.
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Who are we?
Amazon Web Services (AWS) is a secure cloud services platform, offering compute power, database storage, content delivery and other functionality to help businesses scale and grow. Explore how millions of customers are currently leveraging AWS cloud products and solutions to build sophisticated applications with increased flexibility, scalability and reliability.
What can AWS do for me?
Amazon Web Services (AWS) is an inexpensive and highly scalable infrastructure technology that can help you build websites, host core business and employee-facing systems, and manage outreach and fundraising. Nonprofit organizations around the world can stop paying for computing power they aren’t using - and instead, focus their resources on their important work.
Have questions?
No matter where you are in your journey to the cloud, our nonprofit solutions architects are here to answer your most pressing questions about AWS products, services, and getting started. Email [email protected] to have your questions answered by a member of our team, today.
Benefits
Cost Savings & Scalability
Pay for only what you use while scaling up and down whenever you need to.
Donor Outreach and Fundraising
AWS’s inexpensive and scalable infrastructure helps nonprofit organizations manage donor outreach and fundraising efforts while paying for only what they use, which in turn helps nonprofit organizations focus their resources on their important missions.
Research
Open data sources and initiatives aggregate cutting edge research that can help organizations solve the world’s most substantial problems, together.
Websites
Building your website on AWS ensures that it is highly scalable, low cost, and ready for peak usage times, such as an important days of giving.
White House Historical Association
The White House Historical Association (WHHA) is a fantastic example of how a small nonprofit is expanding its reach across the globe by digitizing thousands of presidential artifacts in the AWS cloud for others to learn about and experience. The WHHA took their efforts a step further and built a mobile application to house this information, and which includes a very entertaining “presidential selfie look alike” function.
International Center for Missing & Exploited Children
ICMEC created the GMCNgine, a centralized platform that uses artificial intelligence, machine learning, and Amazon Rekognition to scour the internet for photos of children to compare against images from ongoing cases of missing children from across the globe.
GameChanger Charity
GameChanger Charity is a nonprofit organization changing the world of gaming and technology. They support patients in hospitals around the world by providing hospital care providers with templates to create personalized virtual reality experiences to make a patient’s stay all the more tolerable and comfortable.
Nonprofit customer success spotlights around the world
Actions matter. Take a look at the ways nonprofits are using AWS to accomplish their missions.
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Amazon cares about nonprofits
Businesses across Amazon invest in the nonprofit community. Explore the links below to learn about how these businesses are catering to nonprofits, building programs, and increasing social impact.
