Awesome Foundation Portland, OR Chapter Grant

Awesome Foundation Portland, OR Chapter Grant is sponsored by Awesome Foundation Portland, OR Chapter. Awards $1,000 grants every other month to projects that enhance the Portland community.

Portland, OR - The Awesome Foundation By Emily and Elliot Thistlebriar The Artist Survival School The Bigfoot Poetry Festival Redirection Not Correction Youth Advisory Council Animating Albina: Stories of North/Northeast Portl black whole Press: Workshops Accessible Creative Workshops Who We Are, Who We Can Be: Diverse Biographies Portland Songwriters Guild: Holiday Hits A Walk through Winter Wonderland The OK Challenge: A youth-led wellness movement H.

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(Honoring Our Precious Elders) By Edom Daniel and Bethy Temelso The Weary Wanderers Waystation Kolyada: Slavic winter festival Expressing Identity Through Self-Portrait Petals and Thorns: A Spoken Word Journey By La Toya A.

Hampton aka The Poet Lady Rose By Master Artist Michael Bernard Stevenson Jr. Unity in Diversity: Community Dance Project Free English Classes - Afghan Refugee Community By Lauren Esula, Fund Specialist with Torus On the Inside book project RISE & ROLL Open Air Roller Disco Escuela Viva community mural Mississippi Street Farm Stand Market Wooden Cutout Scavenger Hunts Nat Turner Project: Drinking Gourd Fellowship PPS Public Art Initiative Paper Flower Installation at PDX Domino Tournament in Dawson Park Hallway of 1,000 Cranes: An Interactve Display By Amelia Ralston-Okabayashi By Puzzled Pint Game Control Making On-Demand Animal Law CLEs Accessible Cat Traps for Clackamas County Youth Making a Change Screen-Printing Series The Johnson Creek College Parking Strips for Pollinators The Portland 'Puggy' Bank Taylor Electric Retrospective By Portland Street Art Alliance [Tiffany Conklin + Tomas Valladares] The Numbers Community Studio Teaching playwriting in MacLaren Correctional Portland Underground Grad School The Incredibly Short Film Festival By Chris and Eddie barnhart King School Neighborhood Museum No Really, We Want You to Laugh By Oh Prema / Sweethome Teacup Dignity Village Computer Lab + Storage Shed By Katie Mays, from Dignity Village Diode Gallery for Electric Art - TUIO Jam Shrink Circuits Nomad Lab Youth-Empowering Sewing (YES) (working title) The Gift that keeps on Giving (2.

0) Super Hero Awakening Campaign LoveBomb Go-Go Marching Band Farmworker Struggle Mural By Farm School (Nolan Calisch and Molly Sherman) Awesome Foundation Portland is made up of awesome individuals just like you who want to see Portland become even awesomer than it already is! We award a $1,000 grant every other month to a group or individual who is making an impact in our community.

We select five finalists from all applications and invite them to pitch their project in person or by video call. Trustees have a chance to ask questions, secret themselves away to vote, and then award the grant on the spot. Projects in the Portland, Oregon area.

We will consider ideas from other areas in Oregon as well but keep in mind that this is the Portland Chapter. We are looking for projects that will make Portland Awesomer! We will consider all causes including art, culture, community, environment, animal welfare, human rights, diversity, & community events.

Projects with a clear demonstration on how it will impact the Portland community. Individuals and personal individual projects – this means funds for rent and bills, travel, or business start-up funds. Individual education/trainings General operating funds for nonprofits.

Be sure to detail how your project will make Portland more awesome. Detail how you will spend $1,000. Project budgets are encouraged.

Provide as many details as you can. Where will this project be located? Is it city-wide or in a specific neighborhood?

We prefer to fund projects that will make a difference, that demonstrate the ability to deliver, and where our $1,000 make a difference. We prefer applicants who are not able to acquire funds through more traditional funding streams because they are individuals or groups without non-profit status, completely new ideas that do not necessarily fit within other grant opportunities, and that are based on equity and inclusion. Questions?

Email us at info@awesomeportland. org . Join us as an Awesome Portland trustee!

What’s a trustee? We’re glad you asked! Becoming a trustee is a low time-commitment, non-bureaucratic, and easy way to make a big difference.

You get to decide where your funds go. Contribution: Commit $100 every other month in the interest of awesome. Participation: Help us review applications and decide who gets our $1,000 every other month and attend a total of 3 meetings every other month.

Those are the basics, but if you want to do a little more, you can volunteer to help with the small amount of administrative and program growth work that we do. Due to COVID concerns, we’ve been meeting virtually since March 2020 — you don’t even have to take off your pajamas. What's the time commitment?

While we prefer it, we do not require that trustees participate in all 6 funding cycles. If you want to talk about how you would be comfortable participating, we definitely want to hear from you! Each cycle, we have 3 meetings: In the non-grant month, we hold a general business meeting.

In the grant month, we have a meeting to decide which projects will be the 5 finalists. Next, we hold a meeting where the finalists to give a 3-minute presentation and answer our questions. We then go into a private room and vote.

The project with the most votes is the winner! Sound like fun? Tell us a little about yourself...

A trustee will email or give you a call to give you background on our group.