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The Impact of COVID-19 on Nonprofits and Grant Making

Peak Proposals

Nonprofits, particularly small community-based organizations, struggle to fund their programs during a typical year. We’ve also included suggestions on how to ease the transition to remote work since many nonprofits are having to close their offices. On the Basecamp site, you’ll find a post on how to use the platform Postach.io

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How AWS is supporting nonprofits, governments, and communities impacted by Hurricane Ian

AWS Public Sector Blog

Increasing work capacity The AWS Disaster Preparedness and Response team organized volunteers across AWS to support the disaster relief nonprofit Crisis Cleanup. By combining resource location inputs from TAK with federated public data, the portal displayed a bird’s-eye view of the local and regional incident environment.

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ReliefWeb and AWS distribute life-saving insights faster with generative AI

AWS Public Sector Blog

Launched by the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs in 1996, it helped to revolutionize delivering aid by making the information previously buried in faxed reports available to all humanitarian organizations online.

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Frugal architecture in action: The Urban Institute innovates with R and Serverless on AWS

AWS Public Sector Blog

Cost, resilience, and performance are non-functional requirements that are often at tension with each other.” — Werner Vogels, The Frugal Architect, Law III Nonprofit organizations are typically frugal and responsible. To expand their reach, they often collaborate with academia and other nonprofits, and they engage early-career talent.

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Unhoused individuals gain shelter, prove their identity using AWS-powered solution Kiip

AWS Public Sector Blog

Using technology to improve social services HOPICS is one of five housing coordinators for Los Angeles County with a focus on South Los Angeles. Are you a nonprofit that wants to learn more about how cloud computing can accelerate your mission?

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Building an accountable and effective Senior Executive Service through the Public Service Leadership Model

Partnership for Public Service

The government needs leaders with experience across the public, private or nonprofit sectors to solve problems in a complex, digital world. In addition, agencies should standardize onboarding to set leaders up for success as well as coordinate rotational assignments within and between agencies to broaden leaders executive experience.

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Long-term Disaster Resilience

Eric Holdeman's Disaster Zone Podcast

The Disaster Accountability Project was created to help coordinate nongovernmental organizational efforts. Ben studied Political Science and Nonprofit Management and holds a law degree from the University of Connecticut School of Law. As this is being written the firestorm in California is continuing. Please visit our sponsors!