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HumRRO Selected as 2025 AWS Imagine Grant Winner to Create AI-Powered Workplace Skills Assessment
HumRRO Selected as 2025 AWS Imagine Grant Winner to Create AI-Powered Workplace Skills Assessment
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2025-12-02T16:14:33-05:00
December 2nd, 2025
HumRRO Press Releases
Alexandria, Virginia
(December 2, 2025)
—The Human Resources Research Organization (
HumRRO
) proudly announces it has been selected as a winner of the 2025 Amazon Web Services (AWS) Imagine Grant, a public grant opportunity open to registered charities in the United Kingdom, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, United States, and Canada and registered 501(c) nonprofit organizations in the United States who are using technology to solve the world’s most pressing challenges.
The grant will support HumRRO’s efforts to transform workplace skills evaluation through an AI-powered assessment platform built on Amazon Bedrock. Using realistic simulations, this technology aims to deliver sophisticated and scientifically rigorous skill assessments at a fraction of traditional costs. This breakthrough will make high-quality employee evaluation accessible to organizations of all sizes, replacing outdated methods with engaging, scalable solutions.
HumRRO was named a winner in the
Go Further, Faster
category which recognizes highly innovative projects using advanced cloud services. HumRRO will receive up to $150,000 in unrestricted funding, up to $100,000 in AWS Credits, and support from AWS technical specialists. Awardees were selected based on several factors including the innovative and unique nature of the project, impact on mission-critical goals, and clearly defined outcomes and milestones.
Leveraging AI and Expertise
Building on cutting-edge AI technology and HumRRO’s established expertise in industrial-organizational psychology, our solution running on AWS will address three persistent problems in talent assessment using breakthrough multi-agent AI coordination technology:
Efficiency:
AI automation reduces assessment development time, expanding access to rigorous hiring tools.
Reliability:
Interactive simulations capture authentic behavioral responses, measuring complex skills traditional tests cannot evaluate.
Engagement:
Natural AI conversations deliver realistic workplace scenarios that meet modern candidate expectations.
“Our collaboration with AWS underscores HumRRO’s mission as a nonprofit dedicated to measuring human capabilities and advancing assessment science,” said
Suzanne Tsacoumis, Ph.D.
, President and CEO at HumRRO. “By leveraging AWS’s architecture with our expertise in data-driven solutions, this tool will help meet the growing demand for sophisticated, engaging assessments that are efficient and scalable.”
Since the launch of the
Imagine Grant
program in 2018, AWS has awarded more than $21 million in unrestricted funding, AWS cloud computing credits, and technical expertise to more than 170 nonprofit organizations. Learn more about
past recipients
and how nonprofits use AWS to advance their missions around the world at the
AWS for nonprofits hub
“At AWS, we’re continually amazed by the nonprofit sector’s innovative spirit and dedication to creating positive change in our communities and around the globe,” said Rick Buettner, Managing Director of Global Nonprofits at AWS. “Through the Imagine Grant program, we’re seeing organizations embrace cloud technology in ways that fundamentally reshape how they deliver on their missions. From scaling their impact to reaching underserved communities, these nonprofits are showing us what’s possible when vision meets innovation. We’re proud to support their transformative work and help them build solutions that will benefit communities for years to come.”
Previous winners are currently using AWS services to tackle critical challenges such as
improving political transparency
reducing the administrative burden placed on clinicians
accelerating coral reef monitoring
, helping millions access clean and safe drinking water globally, tackling rare disease research, and more.
Over 95,000 nonprofit organizations worldwide use AWS to increase their impact and advance mission goals. Through
multiple programs
tailored specifically to the nonprofit community, AWS enables nonprofits of all sizes to overcome barriers to technology adoption, while enhancing the scale, performance, and capabilities of mission operations.
For more information on the AWS Imagine Grant, visit
About HumRRO
HumRRO
is a nationally recognized, nonprofit applied research and consulting organization, established in 1951 and headquartered in
Alexandria, Virginia
, with offices in
Louisville, Kentucky
Minneapolis
Monterey, California
; and
San Diego, California
. We provide our clients with innovative solutions for complex business, HR, educational, and organizational challenges. Our areas of expertise include talent management, hiring and promotion, education research and evaluation, credentialing, people analytics, and leadership assessment.
For more information, contact:
Adrienne Fox Luscombe
Manager, Creative Services
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