Cloudflare Impact Program Reaches $100 Million in Donated Services

Cloudflare Impact Program Reaches $100 Million in Donated Services Marking its 16th Birthday Week, Cloudflare announced that its Impact programs have surpassed $100 million in donated cybersecurity services to vulnerable public-interest organizations while expanding initiatives into AI adaptation. Cloudflare's Impact programs have delivered $100 million in donated services to civil society, journalists, public schools, and government bodies. Project Galileo now protects over 3,500 domains across more than 120 countries, having blocked over 38.5 billion cyberattacks in 2025. Cloudflare is broadening its Impact scope beyond cybersecurity to AI adaptation, recently co-hosting a hackathon for journalists in Barcelona. Milestone and Growth of Project Galileo Cloudflare's Impact programs reached $100 million in donated services, protecting thousands of journalism outlets, civil society groups, and public institutions. The initiative originated after Cloudflare realized free users reporting on critical issues faced intense cyberattacks. Launched in 2014, Project Galileo currently covers more than 3,500 domains in over 120 countries and blocked over 38.5 billion attacks in 2025. Cloudflare's 2026 civil society threat report revealed that participants experience vulnerability exploit attempts at more than seven times the rate of average users. Expanding Support into the AI Era Cloudflare is evolving its Impact programs beyond standard cyber defense to assist public-interest entities in navigating artificial intelligence. In September 2026, Cloudflare co-hosted a journalism-focused hackathon with Media Party in Barcelona focused on workflow automation, agentic journalism, synthetic-content verification, and information integrity. The winning project, AIdas, created an open-data tool using Cloudflare's developer platform to analyze AI bias across politically contested topics by comparing LLM responses.

Cloudflare Impact项目捐赠服务价值突破1亿美元 Cloudflare宣布其Impact公益项目捐赠的服务总额已达到1亿美元，该项目长期为新闻媒体、公民社会及公共机构提供网络安全保护，并正在扩展至AI时代的技术支持。 Cloudflare Impact项目捐赠服务累计达1亿美元，为数千家公共利益组织提供网络防护。 Project Galileo现已保护120多个国家的3,500多个域名，2025年日均拦截针对受保护组织的攻击近1.054亿次。 项目支持范畴正从网络安全延伸至AI适应能力，包括联合举办面向新闻工作者的技术黑客松。 捐赠里程碑与项目起源 Cloudflare在庆祝成立16周年之际宣布，其Impact项目捐赠的服务价值达到1亿美元。公司最初提供免费服务是为了收集攻击数据以构建付费产品，但很快发现许多从事关键报道和公共服务的小型免费客户正面临网络上最严重的攻击，这促使Cloudflare改变思路，将支持公共利益组织确立为核心使命与业务基石。 Project Galileo与公民社会防御现状 Cloudflare于2014年启动Project Galileo，为记者、人权维护者等脆弱群体提供高级安全防护。目前该项目覆盖超过120个国家的3,500多个域名，2025年累计拦截各类攻击超385亿次。其2026年发布的公民社会网络攻击报告显示，Project Galileo参与者遭遇网站漏洞利用攻击的频率是普通用户的7倍以上，申请加入该项目的组织数量也在持续攀升。 迈向AI时代的赋能拓展 除了抵御网络攻击，Impact项目正拓展至帮助公共利益机构适应AI技术。2026年9月，Cloudflare与非营利机构Media Party在巴塞罗那联合举办了首个专门面向记者的黑客松，围绕工作流自动化、智能体新闻与虚假内容核查等主题展开。获胜团队开发了AIdas工具，通过对比不同大语言模型对争议议题的回答来研究AI偏见。

This week, Cloudflare's Impact programs will reach $100 million in donated services. It's a significant milestone, and one that we are proud of because it means that thousands of organizations, like journalism outlets, civil society, state and local governments, election management bodies, and public schools are being protected from cyberattacks. But Cloudflare's Impact programs have never been about philanthropy. They are a fundamental part of our business and our mission, and they continue to help guide almost everything we do. As we celebrate this milestone and our 16th Birthday Week, we wanted to revisit not only how we got here, but also how our Impact programs continue to grow and evolve to help those working for the public interest. Cloudflare started as a free service. The original idea was to provide a basic version of our services to developers and small businesses for free, and then use the data about cyberattacks on their websites to build more sophisticated products that we could sell. However, we quickly discovered that some of our free customers were not only doing essential work, like reporting on corruption in Africa or on the Russian invasion of Crimea, but also experiencing some of the largest attacks on our network. That realization changed how we thought about our free services. We committed not only to making them available for free for everyone, but also to doing more for organizations being targeted by powerful adversaries simply for serving the public. Cloudflare launched Project Galileo in 2014 to provide more advanced security services for important but vulnerable people and organizations online, including journalists, human rights defenders, and civil society groups. Today, the program includes more than 3,500 domains in over 120 countries. In 2025, Cloudflare blocked more than 38.5 billion DDoS, website vulnerability, email phishing, and other cyberattacks against Project Galileo participants, almost 105.4 million per day. Over the last 12 years, Cloudflare has continued to expand what we now call our Impact programs. Although each program is unique, our goal is the same: to support organizations and institutions serving the public, particularly those that would not otherwise have access to the necessary cybersecurity services. For example: Helping keep these organizations online by protecting their websites and internal data remains essential. In 2026, Cloudflare released its first annual [report on cyberattacks against civil society](https://cf-assets.www.cloudflare.com/dzlvafdwdttg/5YmIHaAURvy8ZKjJ1CcQo6/1335a737054c44915ace715348e62697/BDES-9187_Cyberattacks_against_civil_society_Project_Galileo_Anniversary_Report.pdf), which found that civil society organizations are targeted more frequently and more intensely than other Cloudflare customers. For example, Project Galileo participants faced attempts to exploit security vulnerabilities in websites at a rate more than seven times higher than an average user. Cloudflare is also on pace to more than double the number of applications to Project Galileo from last year. But Cloudflare's Impact programs have never been static; they evolve alongside our company and technology, and the organizations they serve. Increasingly that means not just defending public interest organizations, but empowering them to adapt and thrive in the era of AI. In early September 2026, on a rainy day in Barcelona, Cloudflare co-hosted a hackathon. Because our developer platform is such an important part of our business, we hold these events all the time. But this one was different: instead of a room full of software engineers or startup founders, it was the first time we held an event specifically for journalists. *Media Party hackathon co-hosted by Cloudflare at the BIT Habitat in Barcelona (September 9, 2026).* The event was part of a three-day conference organized by [Media Party](https://mediaparty.org/), a nonprofit dedicated to media innovation through digital tools. The [event](https://mediaparty.org/2026/09/09/inside-the-media-party-barcelona-hackathon-building-the-newsroom-tools-of-tomorrow/) was designed to bring together journalists, developers, and strategists to solve a single problem: how to help newsrooms adapt to an AI-driven, post-search information landscape. The sprint focused on four themes: workflow automation, agentic journalism, synthetic-content verifications, and information integrity. Each team received free access to Cloudflare's developer platform and the assistance of volunteer Cloudflare engineers to see what they could build in a day. Four teams made it to the final round. The winning team, [AIdas](https://aidas-test.gazzetta.workers.dev/), built a tool that helps researchers and journalists study AI bias across politically contested topics by comparing how different LLMs answer the same question, and recording their responses as open data. The hackathon was just one part of a broader effort across Cloudflare Impact to expand beyond cybersecurity services to help public interest groups adapt to a changing world: Across all of these new efforts, the goal remains the same: to help organizations doing essential work access the tools and support they need to continue to advance their missions. I had the opportunity to meet with two of the Cloudflare engineers who volunteered at the hackathon in Barcelona. They both mentioned to me that one of the reasons they came to work at Cloudflare was Project Galileo, and the chance to use their skills to help organizations working in their communities. It was an important reminder that Cloudflare's Impact programs and our mission are not just things we have done. They continue to shape our identity, including through the people who choose to come work with us. If that sounds like the kind of work you want to do, [come join us](https://www.cloudflare.com/careers/).