Investing in Our Communities
Amazon has the scale, resources, infrastructure, and capacity to deliver valuable growth opportunities for diverse businesses.
Through our programs, we remove barriers to equitable funding opportunities.
As part of our dedication to investing in our communities, we’ve been able to:
We launched a public-private partnership to address the gender inequities that exist for women in the climate finance ecosystem and to support female entrepreneurs with the resources they need to accelerate climate change innovations.
Amazon committed $53 million to accelerate women’s climate innovation, including $3 million toward the USAID partnership, and $50 million to invest in climate tech companies run by women.
Support initiatives like Amazon Catalytic Capital, a $150 million program to fund historically marginalized entrepreneurs; the Black Business Accelerator, a $150 million commitment to back Black business owners; and the Impact Accelerator for Women Founders, which provide financial backing, networking, and other support to startup founders.
Commit to skills training opportunities in a big way via our $1.2 billion Upskilling pledge, which provides free education and skills training to more than 300,000 of our employees in the U.S. to help them secure new, high-growth jobs, in addition to free skills training in cloud computing to 29 million people around the world.
Through Amazon’s Housing Equity Fund, we provide more than $3.6 billion in below-market loans and grants to preserve and create more than 35,000 affordable homes for individuals and families earning moderate to low incomes in communities where Amazon calls home: Washington’s Puget Sound region, Arlington, and Nashville. Discover more about Amazon's Housing Equity Fund.
Read our latest Community Impact Report to get a comprehensive overview of all the ways in which we support our local communities.
