Google has named the 20 organisations joining the 2025 cohort of the Google.org Accelerator: Generative AI, which will share $30 million to use generative AI on social problems, Google said on 9 June 2025.
The nonprofits, social enterprises, civic bodies and universities were selected through an open call. Each will receive funding along with six months of technical training, pro bono support from Google AI experts and Google Cloud credits.
Projects range from crisis response, antimicrobial resistance and children's mental health to clinical decision support in Kenya, maths tutoring, early literacy and satellite-based environmental monitoring. Participants include Aga Khan University, ARMMAN, Earth Genome, iNaturalist and Nava PBC.
Google.org launched the accelerator in 2024. It said Tabiya, a member of the first cohort working on youth unemployment, has reached more than 8,000 jobseekers in half the time and at a quarter of the cost using Compass, an open-source conversational agent built with Gemini.
A Google.org survey found that only one in five nonprofits say at least half their organisation uses generative AI.