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Impact Initiative · Grant program

Community Technology Grant

Helping mission-driven organizations spend less time on operations and more time on impact — through named technology grant awards for services, product licenses, hosting assistance, and responsible AI enablement on Rumble Built rails.

Program positioning

This is not a nonprofit discount program. Rumble Built maintains standard pricing and awards named Community Technology Grants that offset approved services, product licenses, hosting assistance, or usage credits.

Rumble Built invests a defined annual grant pool into mission-driven organizations. Every award has a stated value, approved scope, measurable outcome, and clear accounting treatment — not open-ended discounts or rate cards.

Operating rules

Every grant engagement should strengthen the Rumble Built platform, create reusable playbooks, or produce measurable impact.

  • No percentage discounts or nonprofit rate cards.
  • Price work at standard value, then apply a named grant award.
  • No custom one-off work without product reuse.
  • No free infrastructure or third-party pass-through costs unless expressly awarded.
  • Every engagement requires a signed statement of work or license agreement with grant award language and usage caps where applicable.

Grant categories

Credits apply only to approved categories in a signed agreement — not third-party costs or open-ended support.

Category Purpose Award treatment
Services Grant Discovery, implementation, workflow automation, configuration, training Named dollar credit applied against full-value SOW
Product License Grant CapturedIt, Bread & Butter, HuniDu, nMyCity, or other Rumble Built product access License credit or sponsored access for a stated term
Hosting Assistance Grant Managed deployment, storage, infrastructure support Capped credit against approved hosting line items
AI / API Usage Grant Model usage, embeddings, processing, API calls Fixed usage allowance or dollar credit with hard caps
Strategic Innovation Grant Reusable product features or pilots with strong platform alignment Custom award approved case-by-case
Third-party costs External SaaS, domains, licenses, payment fees, hardware Not covered unless expressly written into the award

Award tiers

Named grant credits at four tiers. Strategic awards are reserved for highly aligned organizations where work can create product IP, public impact, or repeatable templates.

Bronze

$5,000 credit

Best for small workflow fixes, discovery, setup, reporting cleanup, or lightweight automation.

Silver

$15,000 credit

Best for operational modernization, internal tools, AI-assisted workflows, and data organization.

Gold

$30,000 credit

Best for larger implementation projects across multiple teams, departments, or workflows.

Strategic

Custom credit

Reserved for highly aligned organizations where the work can create product IP, public impact, or repeatable templates.

Eligible organizations

  • Registered nonprofits and charities
  • Educational institutions
  • Community organizations
  • Scientific or research groups
  • Environmental organizations
  • Healthcare or human services charities
  • Arts, culture, and public benefit organizations

Eligible projects

  • Workflow automation and process modernization
  • Volunteer, donor, grant, or program operations
  • Internal AI assistants and knowledge search
  • Reporting, dashboards, and operational visibility
  • Document organization and institutional memory
  • Accessibility, training, and staff enablement

Not covered

Custom websites, brand design, social media, emergency IT support, hardware purchases, unmanaged third-party software licensing, or projects that do not align with Rumble Built products, platform, implementation services, or reusable playbooks.

Annual timeline

  1. JanuaryOpen applications — publish eligibility, award tiers, and deadline.
  2. MarchReview applications, score applicants, select finalists, and run discovery calls.
  3. AprilFinalize scope, SOW, grant credit amount, usage caps, and implementation timeline.
  4. May–SeptImplement projects; collect feedback, measure adoption, and track reusable product improvements.
  5. OctoberMeasure outcomes — hours saved, workflows improved, people served, and admin burden reduced.
  6. Nov–DecPublish case studies, partner stories, testimonials, and annual impact report.