• Individuals who have reached the age of majority in their jurisdiction of residence at the time of entry (most countries set the age of majority at 18 including the US, UK, Germany)
• Teams of Eligible Individuals
• Organizations

(See full eligibility requirements in section 3 of the rules)

Main Requirement: Develop (or update) sustainable solutions that help the nonprofit sector and cultural institutions engage the public to drive critical donations, uphold mission delivery, and address the evolving challenges faced by the sector. Solutions must integrate at least one AWS service into their solution and address at least one of the available categories.

Important Notes:

• Makers who integrate Amazon Pay within their solution(s) must adhere to the main requirement of the hackathon.
• Makers who build an Alexa Skill must integrate Amazon Pay within their solution(s) and adhere to the main requirement of the hackathon.

Available categories:

• Nonprofit Fundraising – Solutions that enable nonprofits to reach new and existing donors (individual and corporate) to generate monetary donations/giving (examples: outreach platforms, storytelling/impact showcase tools, digital media/engagement applications, and more).
• Nonprofit Program & Service Delivery – Solutions that allow nonprofits to enhance and/or continue delivering services to their intended audiences (examples: remote telehealth tools, data-driven mission action capabilities, virtual support tools, volunteerism tools, AI chatbots/voice assistants, and more).
• Preserving Cultural Institutions – Solutions that meet the needs of cultural institutions to further nurture their patrons and/or capture new patrons (examples: Solutions that enhance ticket sales and merchandise purchasing, tools to connect artists and art patrons, AI/ML tools to aid in engaging new audiences and predicting emerging art interests, artist collaboration tools, and more).

Submit the following materials: 

1. Demo video (hosted on YouTube, Facebook Video, Vimeo, or Youku). Your video should be around 5 minutes long and include a demo of your working application. 
2. Repository access to your working application for judging and testing. Include a link to your repo hosting the code and all deployment files and testing instructions needed for testing your project. (Repositories may be public or private — if your repository is private, share access with testing@devpost.com AND Nonprofit-buildathon@amazon.com.
3. Submission form on Devpost before the deadline, July 22nd at 5PM EDT.