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CategoryA collection of our favourite Awesome Foundation funded projects from around the world. Awesome Newcastle is a chapter of The Awesome Foundation. The Awesome Foundation was created in 2009 and has provided over $1.5m in grants via 114 chapters in 26 countries.
How to win: turn your awesome idea into cash
Awesome Miami has some great guidelines on how they determine grants. We loved them so much we’re cross posting them here; we just replaced the word Miami with Newy. Thanks for the tips, guys!
Here’s some rough guidelines:
Joy and surprise: Does it make people smile? Will it make us laugh?
Innovation: Is it a totall..
Awesome Twin City Supports The Free Black Table Open Mic
Awesome Newcastle is loving this winning project from Awesome Twin Cities in Minnesota, USA. Read about their latest Awesome Project below!
BlackTableArts presents The Free Black Table Open Mic. Free of charge and for all ages, it began in January, 2015. The Free Black Table Open Mic is held at Illusion Theater in M..
Awesome Stockholm and Samklang bring citizens of Gnesta together via stories
Non-profit Samklang wants to inspire the people of Gnesta, Sweden to share memories of their home by writing down stories, dreams, poetry and fantasies. The organisation will make it happen through workshops and a storytelling app.
The employees of Samklang want citizens to reflect on the buildings and places that e..
FARM LA’S LIMA BEANS PROJECT
If it were up to Farm LA, the humble lima bean would be the official vegetable of Los Angeles. The healthy, filling veggie grows like a champ in LA, and the non-profit’s plan to create new, sustainable lima bean farms is the winner of our March grant!
Farm LA is a local 501(c)3 dedicated to rescuing unbuildable land..
Project Cold Days
Cold Days is a documentary about homelessness during the cold Ottawan winters. If you’re picturing an Australian winter, think again. We’re talking knee-deep in a snowy blizzard winter.
Stephen R. Coleman and his team have been working on the documentary, unfunded, for over two years so the recent $1,000 grant from ..
Badass Boarders
Kasley Killam of San Francisco is bringing it with an awesome initiative called Badass Boarders, who are Awesomen SF’s latest grant winner.
Simply put, Badass Boarders are a group of women learning to skateboard together. However if you dive a little deeper you’ll see a group of women in the community that are dedic..
Cyber Seniors
Let’s face it, we’ve all shared the frustration at some point when trying to teach either a parent or friend, who may be slightly older, to use a smartphone, tablet or computer.
As we are living in an increasingly techno-based society, people need to adapt to new technology to survive. It sounds drastic but how else..
Murals for a Queens Supportive Housing Facility
We’re always amazed by the awesomeness that spreads far and wide around this amazing globe of ours. Recently the Awesome Chapter of New York City have gotten behind a creative project for a Queens based supportive housing facility.
The building has been designed by Amie Gross Architects (AGA) who are working in coll..
Pay It Forward Pink Envelope Initiative
Picture this. One morning in you wander down the path, across the front yard and open the mailbox to find a little pink envelope. No addressee. Just a message saying ‘Be Awesome, Open Me’.
Inquisitively you open it to find a random amount of money. Awesome right! So what would you do with it?
The Awesome Foundatio..
Sandcastle Maker
Close your eyes and think back to your family beach trips in the summertime. The car packed to the brim with towels, beach umbrellas and the trusty bucket that two-timed as a sandcastle mould and collector for moat water.
Let’s face it, we all thought our castles were the best while we built for hours along the san..