AWS Public Sector Blog
Category: Nonprofit
How Truth For Life transformed its viewer analytics while optimizing costs
In this post, you’ll see how the nonprofit Bible ministry, Truth For Life, built a cost-optimized viewer analytics pipeline on AWS to gain new insights on their followers and help develop new growth strategies.
Transforming nonprofit impact: Highlights from the AWS Imagine Conferences in London and Sydney
In this post, we explore some of the stories shared by public sector innovators at the AWS Imagine for Nonprofits conferences in London and Sydney, which illustrate the transformative power of cloud technology when applied thoughtfully to address significant challenges and advance mission delivery.
NRECA’s cloud transformation: Driving affordability, reliability, and sustainability in the public sector with AWS
The National Rural Electric Cooperative Association (NRECA) recently completed a migration from a traditional on-premises data center and began using AWS Cloud services. Originally planned for five years, NRECA finished in four. Like most technology, it wasn’t as simple as flipping a switch, but if your organization is considering a similar move, hopefully the NRECA’s experience can act as a guide. Read this post to learn more.
Zearn boosts math accessibility with Amazon Polly’s AI-powered text-to-speech
Read this post to learn how Zearn improved students’ learning experience with Amazon Polly, a scalable, high-quality text-to-speech (TTS) solution from AWS that offers human-sounding voices, Spanish-language support, and seamless API integration.
No-code AI development: Using Amazon SageMaker AI and Amazon Kendra for smart search chatbots
In this post, we walk through creating a Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG)–powered chat assistant using Amazon SageMaker AI and Amazon Kendra to query donor data on AWS.
Change.org’s Ray-based recommender on Amazon EKS increases petition signatures by 30%
Read this post to learn how Change.org built a next-generation recommender on AWS that turned more awareness into action—boosting petition signatures by 30 percent.
Discover how nonprofits can utilize no-code machine learning with Amazon SageMaker Canvas
In this post, we explore how Amazon SageMaker Canvas can make machine learning accessible and actionable for nonprofit organizations. We highlight key features that allow your nonprofit to harness the power of machine learning without data science expertise or dedicated engineering teams.
Security best practices that accelerate nonprofit mission impact
Nonprofit organizations face unique security challenges due to their resource constraints and prioritization of mission-focused initiatives. In this blog post, we discuss Amazon Web Services (AWS) security best practices to accelerate mission impact and demonstrate how upfront security investments can both improve security and save time on redundant processes in the long run.
AI for social good: AWS Imagine for Nonprofits 2025 conference highlights
On March 26, 2025, nonprofit and technology leaders gathered at AWS Imagine for Nonprofits, hosted at Amazon HQ2 in Arlington, VA, to connect with peers, share success stories, explore ideas, and discover new ways to use technology for the greater good. In this post, we will share the key announcements, highlights, and takeaways from the event.
AWS supports Connecting for Better Health with the 2025 IMAGINE Grant to advance data exchange in health and social care
Connecting for Better Health (C4BH) is a nonprofit coalition focused on advancing health and social services data sharing to improve the overall health of Californians. To support this mission, AWS has awarded the 2024-2025 AWS IMAGINE Grant: Go Further, Go Faster to C4BH for their Data Exchange Framework (DxF) Community Sandbox. This grant is part of an AWS initiative to empower nonprofit organizations using technology to address global challenges and will provide vital support to enhance health and social services data sharing efforts across healthcare and social service partners.