# $25 million offered by Google.Org for its AI Impact Challenge

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/2018/11/21/25m-offered-google-org-ai-impact-challenge/
- Published: 2018-11-21T11:19:46+00:00
- Author: Howard Lake

**Google.org is giving $25 million to humanitarian projects that use Google’s machine
learning technology effectively.**

The AI Impact Challenge aims to inspire the application of artificial intelligence
to provide new and probably previously unthinkable solutions to old problems to 
improve people’s lives.

Google.org states that “We believe that AI can give us new ways of addressing problems
and meaningfully improve people’s lives.”

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The winning organisations will receive:

 * a share of the funding
 * support from Google’s AI experts
 * credit and consulting from Google Cloud, and more.

The recipients will also join a specialised [Launchpad Accelerator programme](https://developers.google.com/programs/launchpad/),
and Google will provide additional support to each project’s needs in collaboration
with data science nonprofit DataKind.

Grants are expected to range from $500k to $2M, “but will ultimately be sized based
on project needs”. 

 

## Application criteria

The Google AI Impact Challenge is an open call to nonprofits, social enterprises,
and research institutions around the world.

Applicants will be expected to demonstrate:

 * Impact
 * Feasibility
 * Use of AI
 * Scalability
 * Responsibility (in terms of [Google’s Responsible AI principles](https://ai.google/education/responsible-ai-practices))

Applications close at 11:59:59pm PST on 22 January 2019. After the deadline, Google
and its panel of experts will review proposals and announce grant recipients in 
Spring 2019.

 

## AI for good resources

As part of the AI Impact Challenge Google.org has published some [educational resources](https://ai.google/education/social-good-guide/)
to help social good organisations get to grips with the challenges and opportunities
of AI in their work.

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