The Awesome Foundation is an ever-growing worldwide community devoted to forwarding the interest of awesome in the universe. Created in the long hot summer days of 2009 in Boston, the Foundation distributes $1,000 grants, no strings attached, to projects and their creators. At each fully autonomous chapter, the money is pooled together from the coffers of ten or so self-organizing “micro-trustees” and given up front in cash, check, or gold doubloons.
Each fully autonomous chapter supports awesome projects through micro-grants, usually given out monthly. These micro-grants, $1000 or the local equivalent, come out of pockets of the chapter’s “trustees” and are given on a no-strings-attached basis to people and groups working on awesome projects.
WHAT DO YOU MEAN BY “AWESOME?”
Every chapter interprets “awesome” for itself. As such, awesome projects include initiatives in a wide range of areas including arts, technology, community development, and more. Many awesome projects are novel or experimental, and evoke surprise and delight. Awesome sometimes challenges and often inspires. Browse some grants on the chapter pages of this site to see what we mean! We’re still waiting for something with dinosaurs (hint, hint).
Got an awesome idea? Apply for a grant!
To reach a specific chapter, please use the e-mail link at the top of the chapter’s page, under the Chapters section of this site. Or, for general global inquiries, you can drop us a line at contact@awesomefoundation.org. Please note that we are unable to provide updates or feedback with regard to applications at this address.
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Website link: https://www.awesomefoundation.org/en
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