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Announcing the 2023-2024 AWS IMAGINE Grant winners

AWS Public Sector Blog

What gives me hope are the nonprofit organizations that I am thrilled to share with you today, who are among thousands of organizations around the globe filling vital gaps in services and support for our people and planet. Among this cohort are nonprofits on the cutting edge of what’s possible with technology.

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Creating a video storage and management system for your nonprofit

AWS Public Sector Blog

Nonprofit organizations are increasingly using videos to fundraise, raise awareness, and attract new members or donors. Also, improving the accessibility of videos, such as by providing captions and translations, can require hours of hands-on, expert-level work.

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The Mercatus Center solves unstructured data challenges using generative AI from AWS

AWS Public Sector Blog

For a nonprofit with a limited budget, the Mercatus Center discovered another huge advantage in AWS: cost savings. The scalability and speed of the new AWS generative AI solution translate into cost savings across the entire organization. The partnership between AWS and Anthropic made that possible.

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Singapore’s National Library Board aims to unlock country’s rich heritage with AR app built by AWS Partner NCS

AWS Public Sector Blog

These frameworks allowed NCS and AWS to discover and analyze user needs and goals and translate them into a clearly defined problem statement. By understanding the primary motivators for learning about Singapore’s heritage, we were able to create a coherent end user journey visualization and define the end vision for the solution.

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Job search advice for former federal employees, with Larry Slesinger

Partnership for Public Service

The Partnership for Public Service recently spoke with Larry Slesinger, a recruiter with more than 25 years of experience helping nonprofit organizations find key talent, to discuss how federal employees impacted by recent disruptions to the civil service can navigate job transitions. Public-sector skills and vocabulary can be unique.

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Mapping litter and plastic pollution with citizen science

AWS Public Sector Blog

The platform has identified over 150 predefined types of litter, which when captured in one language and automatically translate into any of the other seven supported languages. Additionally, users can extend this by adding their own custom tags, which enables anyone to map data on anything. Figure 1.

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How to learn as a nonprofit professional

Grant Writing Made Easy

As I’m in the business of teaching grant writing online and I want my students to have incredible success , I think a lot about how to learn as a nonprofit professional. Since I started in 2016, I’ve had the opportunity to teach thousands of nonprofit leaders. Celebrate back-to-school, nonprofit leader style. Learn more!