January 2012
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FYI: Ottawa is Awesome too. →
helloanne:
In very exciting news, I found out today (well, actually I found out last week, but it was officially announced today) that I’ve received the November Awesome Ottawa grant from the Awesome Foundation for Hello Ottawa!
The Awesome Ottawa Foundation consists of a group of 10 trustees from a variety of sectors who donate some of their own money each month to fund a local project. It’s a...
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2011: an AWESOME year in Awesome
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Awesome Announcements
Awesome Chicago’s November grant goes to Felix Jung for his QR Code Poetry project.
Awesome Seattle’s first grantee has released her first story-for-a-sandwich, entitled “You Could be Happy”.
Awesome Connecticut is now in business! Welcome aboard!
Awesome Pittsburgh had their first event on December 5th and gave out two grants to Puppet Photobooth and...
November 2011
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Awesome Wrap-Up: November 1-8, 2011
This is a new experiment in consolidating all the great news we get on a week to week basis in the Awesome universe. If I missed something, send me a note! Likewise, would love to hear what you all are reading that’s relevant to the Awesome Foundation.
Awesome Announcements
An AF Boston-backed Kickstarter project to create Biochemies (magnetic DNA molecule plush dolls) is up and running!
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October 2011
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Chicago October Fellow Revealed!
Let’s say you’re an average Joe evil genius trying to make a sentient nano-swarm in your underground lair. How do you see the little guys to prove you’ve succeeded …or troubleshoot in the unlikely case of failure? Traditionally, you’d need a $30,000 microscope to accomplish that task.
Enter the Chicago Awesome Foundation’s October grantee, Sacha De’Angeli, and his Open Source Scanning Tunneling...
September 2011
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August 2011
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Ricochet: The Dog That Surfs for Charity →
As reported by Incredible Features last year, Ricochet is a dog that can surf. Originally trained to be a service animal, the golden retriever was unable to provide adequate support due on her love of chasing birds! Instead she found a way of using her favorite sport to draw attention to…
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Rethink the Food Label →
Berkeley’s journalism school partnered with GOOD Magazine and Design Matters to hold a contest asking people to redesign the nutrition label. Here’s the winner (and the audience favorite):
Simple. Colorful. Easy to read.
[h/t Nathan Yau at Flowing Data] via datalab
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Commonly Good: Awesome People: Tim Hwang →
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Awesome People: Tim Hwang
Tim and I caught up via soup and salad at the Stable Cafe. A skilled organizer, Tim has built a number of amazing projects (like this and that and this, too), and is a nice guy to boot. We discussed AF, BetterGrads, and old boys clubs. My key takeaway on Awesome Foundation was that the foundation-part is hardly that. AF is an idea, an inspiration, not...
July 2011
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Awesome, Chicago: We're turning this up to 20! →
Chicago is so awesome they’re doubling down and opening up more trustee slots.
Takers?
chicagoawesome:
What’s better than a monthly $1000 award to make Chicago more awesome? 2 monthly $1000 awards to make Chicago more awesome! After the announcement of our last award, we had a bunch of interest in expanding the trustee pool to 20, so that we could award two groups per month. We’re...
Awesome, Chicago: Our First Grant! →
After much hand-wringing and consternation, we - the trustees of the Chicago Chapter of the Awesome Foundation, would like to award $1000 (in cash, in a brown paper bag) to our friends at Little Free Library!
Little Free Library sets up adorable homemade library boxes around town that…
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Institute on Higher Awesome Studies: Calling All... →
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We’re starting an experiment in community-driven microgranting in Detroit, and we need your help!
Detroit has a long history of exceptional journalism and community organizing, and the Awesome News Taskforce wants to make the ecosystem of projects circulating important civic information…
Watchzedequalszee:
Muze is a electronic music instrument that plays along with you; it evolves notes and phrases over time, but also lets you tweak them.
It’s a creation of Teague Labs, runs on an Arduino, and is open-source. Learn more about the project here.
(hat tip: Suzanne)
