{"id":1357,"date":"2011-02-02T02:08:00","date_gmt":"2011-02-02T02:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/2011\/02\/02\/awesome-foundation-1000-a-month-for-the-most-awesome-idea-every-month\/"},"modified":"2011-02-02T02:08:00","modified_gmt":"2011-02-02T02:08:00","slug":"awesome-foundation-1000-a-month-for-the-most-awesome-idea-every-month","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/2011\/02\/02\/awesome-foundation-1000-a-month-for-the-most-awesome-idea-every-month\/","title":{"rendered":"Awesome Foundation: $1,000 a month for the most awesome idea, every month"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/boingboing\/iBag\/~3\/JxWV0tmWAo4\/awesome-foundation-1.html\">Awesome Foundation: $1,000 a month for the most awesome idea, every month<\/a>: &#8220;The Awesome Foundation for the Arts and Sciences organizes regional groups of 10 people who commit to &#8216;showing up each month, stuffing $100 each into a paper bag, and giving that bag to the person we think has the best chance at achieving something awesome.&#8217; The Toronto chapter is up and dispersing grants, with no strings attached.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n<br \/><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/craphound.com\/images\/awesomelogo.png.jpg?w=625\" align=\"right\"><br \/>Submissions through our application form are placed in a common pool viewable by all chapters. Each chapter meets monthly to select a project to fund. By consensus, trustees determine which project to fund, and the $1,000 fellowship is distributed accordingly. Some chapters also routinely contact applicants for interviews before awarding the fellowships.<\/p>\n<p>Chapters are divided by geography, and more recently by topic of interest. While specifying a chapter to apply to is not necessary (all chapters can view the applications received by all other chapters), many chapters show a preference for local projects.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/awesometo.wordpress.com\/2011\/01\/20\/1000-each-month-for-something-awesome\/\">The Awesome Foundation<\/a><\/p>\n<p>(<i>via <a href=\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/confessions\/\">Confessions of a Science Librarian<\/a><\/i>)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ads.pheedo.com\/click.phdo?s=9a0cf6ee4f3afa3837efa5b2650a306a&#038;p=1\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/ads.pheedo.com\/img.phdo?s=9a0cf6ee4f3afa3837efa5b2650a306a&#038;p=1\"><\/a><br \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" height=\"0\" width=\"0\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/segment-pixel.invitemedia.com\/pixel?code=TechCons&#038;partnerID=167&#038;key=segment\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" height=\"0\" width=\"0\" border=\"0\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/pixel.quantserve.com\/pixel\/p-8bUhLiluj0fAw.gif?resize=0%2C0\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" height=\"0\" width=\"0\" border=\"0\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/haku.vizu.com\/a.gif?resize=0%2C0\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/boingboing\/iBag\/~4\/JxWV0tmWAo4\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\">&#8220;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Awesome Foundation: $1,000 a month for the most awesome idea, every month: &#8220;The Awesome Foundation for the Arts and Sciences organizes regional groups of 10 people who commit to &#8216;showing up each month, stuffing $100 each into a paper bag, and giving that bag to the person we think has the best chance at achieving [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1357","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3pfIY-lT","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1357","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1357"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1357\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1357"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1357"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1357"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}