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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 Pop-up Co-op (very alliterative). Instead of giant checks, they handed out microchecks for the microgrants. AWESOME!
• Awesome Montreal’s first grant went to the Alley Kids project.
• More information about Awesome Melbourne’s October grant, the Positive Parks Project!
• Awesome Food’s November grant goes to SNAP Gardens, a program that promotes buying seeds with food stamps for food security.
• Every superhero needs a supervillain. Ours, the Awful Foundation, has just reared its ugly head! Whatever shall we do?

Awesome Events

• Awesome Calgary’s cohosting a holiday party tonight. How do you guys have so many events??

Awesome in the News

• Awesome Ottawa’s November grant to Anne Patterson gets written up.
• Awesome Tampa Bay gets a detailed writeup of their first grant to the Birdhouse Buying Club.
• Awesome Foundation receives a positive review in Free Money Ate my Brain, a site that normally warns about the dangers of getting free money.
• Awesome Seattle’s Ellen Chisa writes about how she got over her skepticism to give $100/month.

Reading

• Lower-income women give more, proportionally, than any other demographic.