America's Charities' Engage CSR Solution Partner SmartSimple Software Named 2021 Social Impact Partner of the Year by Amazon Web Services

May 19, 2021 /3BL Media/ - Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS), an Amazon.com company, today announced the 2021 Canada AWS Partner Award winners, recognizing channel leaders playing a key role helping Canadian customers drive innovation and build solutions on the AWS Cloud.

Announced during the annual AWS Partner Summit, the AWS Partner Awards recognize a wide range of born-in-the cloud, and traditional AWS Consulting and Technology Partners, whose business models have embraced specialization and collaboration over the past year. The AWS Partner Awards also recognize AWS Partners whose business models continue to evolve and thrive on the AWS Cloud as they work with customers, enabling them to take advantage of the benefits of Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence, improve their security posture or develop critical solutions to address the challenges related to the COVID-19 pandemic.

The AWS Partner Network (APN), is a global partner program, focused on helping the tens of thousands of participating AWS Partners build successful AWS-based businesses or solutions by providing business, technical, marketing, and go-to-market support. The APN Program includes independent software vendors (ISVs) and systems integrators (SIs) around the world, with AWS Partner participation in Canada growing significantly during the past 12 months.

Eric Gales, AWS Canada Country Manager said the diverse nature of the AWS Partner Award winners reflected the opportunity provided for AWS Partners who were focused on helping customers remove the friction of managing IT infrastructure and set the platform for innovation. “AWS Partners are helping customers become more agile and innovate faster across a wide range of industries, from banking and finance, to the public sector, and increasingly, the Canadian startup sector. The winners of the 2021 AWS Partner Awards understand that customers can access more than 200 fully featured services to innovate in a myriad of ways—including some who are bringing entirely new solutions to market, and others who have been working with AWS since the launch of the AWS Canada (Central) Region more than four years ago.”

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AWS Social Impact Partner of the Year: An AWS Partner who has shown deep commitment to providing consulting services and or technology offerings that have great social impact with proven customer success in 2020.

Winner: Toronto-headquartered SmartSimple Software Inc. (“SmartSimple”) is a global leader in cloud-based grantmaking and corporate responsibility solutions. SmartSimple is trusted by 400 clients including prominent foundations, Fortune 500 companies, and government funders. In 2020, SmartSimple’s platform helped to empower Vancouver Foundation to provide rapid and essential relief to communities across British Columbia impacted by COVID-19 through its Community Response Fund. In a matter of days, Vancouver Foundation developed a nimble granting model, recruited advisors, and began processing funding requests from frontline health and social service charities and arts and culture groups seeking immediate support. Since the beginning of the pandemic, Vancouver Foundation has granted $19.9 million to 591 charities across the province. In 2020, SmartSimple’s configurable platform has helped to connect 1.1 million end-users across 192 countries to $9 billion in critical funding.

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In addition to being AWS Social Impact Partner of the Year, SmartSimple Software is also an AWS APN Advanced Technology Partner with the following statuses that recognize our proven expertise:

• Government Competency
• Public Sector Partner
• SaaS Program Partner