What changed
U.S. Hunger, a nonprofit organization focused on addressing food insecurity, has adopted Amazon Quick to streamline data access and collaboration across its teams. The tool allows leaders to explore organizational data directly, work with shared definitions, and examine financial information alongside family circumstances. This integration supports the organization's mission to deliver over 250 million meals and expand its reach to 59 countries.
What this means in practice
Rick Whitted, President and CEO of U.S. Hunger, has used Amazon Quick to explore data from Impact Manager, the organization's proprietary cloud-based data platform. Quick pulls data from SQL Server into its in-memory engine, SPICE, through scheduled refresh jobs at 2 AM ET each night. The technology team and colleagues prepare datasets and provide definitions to help interpret the information. Rick also uses Quick Spaces, a feature that allows colleagues to work with documents, definitions, and analyses relevant to specific areas of the business. This has enabled the leadership team to make informed decisions together, with shared definitions of key performance indicators (KPIs) and access to financial documents and planning tools.
Limitations and availability
The supplied announcement does not specify the exact number of users or the extent of Quick's integration across U.S. Hunger's operations. However, the organization has given 17 colleagues access to Quick across various departments, including executive leadership, technology, and finance. The tool is used primarily for data exploration, report refinement, and financial planning. The organization plans to make its data available beyond its own operations, envisioning a national hunger-data resource for researchers and the public.
