Awesome Foundation San Francisco, CA Chapter Grant

Awesome Foundation San Francisco, CA Chapter Grant is sponsored by Awesome Foundation San Francisco, CA Chapter. Awards $1,000 grants monthly to projects that enhance San Francisco.

San Francisco, CA - The Awesome Foundation San Francisco Contemplarium The Vanilla Biodiversity Conservatory Please Plant This Book Richard Brautigan [REPRINT] Climate Confessional (Talking Compost Bin) Puppet & clown art resistance Parole Logic, Postcard Size Signage of a certain sort How to survive Facism - a PowerPoint Comedy Show Healthy Soil and Waste Management Support Group for Parents of Incarcerated Children Nature Collages: Blurred Apocalypse and Frolicking Take back joy, one pop at a time!

Midwinter Magick Festival Guns to Gardens Safe Surrender The Mindful Maze: A Playful Path to Community Conn Bike locks for community bike shop users By Victoria Hendrix Oppenheimer The Little Letterpress Museum Wilderness Education for Immigrant Students Wheelchair modding workshop Young Riders Afterschool Program Rock and Roll Middle School Colusa Donation Based Garden Stand "Dazzling Lights Over Water" RAINBOW FALLS TO COSTUME-CON39!

StoryMap of California’s Water Healing and Learning Garden Program Everyone Needs Underwear... and Maybe Glasses Too! Nothing is Poison, Everything is Poison Winter in America: "State of Emergency" Kids gone camping!

Together we rise! Once Upon a Time...

Publishing Clown Conservatory Documentary Interactive Mural for School Lou Harrison Archival Sample Packs Voices of the Golden Ghosts Tenderloin Resident Art Exhibition and Quilt The People Who Make Elections Happen Social Justice Financial Dominatrix Queer Cat Productions 2021 Commission By Carson Beker, on behalf of Queer Cat Productions Reinvigorating several Community Gardens in BVHP The True Tale of Princess Kaguya Helping the disabled look and feel good By Still look good foundation Practice fundraising/Equipment SF African American Senior Narrative Quilt Project Climate Resilient Schools Un Respiro de Vida / A Breath Of Life By Belinda Hernandez Arriaga Bike Match: Free Bikes for COV19 Essential Workers By Stephen Braitsch (written by Alicia Escott) Within the First 50 paces Engineering for Covid-19 PAPR Project!

By Acknowledgment Committee The Little Theater at the WSPS By William Lewis & Lea Redmond Fancy Phone Numbers - 16mm film "Waiting for San Francisco to Vanish" Solar-powered Internet for People's Park! Re-Introduction of Pacific Tree Frogs to FFACC Wildfire Progression Sculptures Russell City, CA: Documenting a Town Now Gone Project Kolateral in San Francisco!

Song of Songs Seder Celebrating Queer Sexuality Star Stories Live, a Podcast “Our Future Is Renewable” Every Record Ever Recorded mySight (Homelessness Blinders street theater) Ice on Ice: an Ice Capade!

By Rachelle Reichert and Annie Malcolm Aaron Swartz Day VR Museum, Art Gallery, Fun House This land was made for you and me Food For Thought: A 5-Star Ohlone Banquet Community Street Painting Force of Nature: Women's Work Visualized "you've got my eyes" - a dork-punk show-n-tell The Artship at Playland at 43rd Avenue Q-Finder: A view into the possible Another brief History of the Sunset Resurrecting Lou Harrison's Lost Electronic Music GollOrbs—Flying Wind-Powered Kinetic Sculptures Replacing Missing Piers of SF’s Embarcadero Mobility Scooter Cruise Control Circuit!

Deej - community engagement campaign By Robert Rooy and DJ Savarese By Jacqueline Zimmer Jones The 90-Second Newbery Film Festival LuminoKinetic Artist / Engineer Smuggling Nature: Walking Poems Across Golden Gate San Francisco Moby-Dick Marathon homobiles app hackathon space By Debbie McCann and Althea Marie McCann Tabor Teaching Electronics to Visually Impaired Students Tangible Possibility: playful speed dating Grow'n & Chef'n Proper in Lower W.

Oakland! War Gastronomy - Recipes of Relocation By Justin Charles Hoover (胡智騰) and Chris Treggiari Land Action Squatter House Prototype Oakland students make the future! By James Kealey & Nicholas Gilpinwright The Bayview Bus Project: Art Not Ads!

By Jericha Senyak (The Museum of Joy) Jam Buckets. Hosted by Mission Science Workshop.

O BEST BELOVED - 2014 Parks Tour Aboard FluxWagon By Idiot String (Rebecca Longworth & Joan Howard) Capturing Pinball Physics Changing the world one love note at a time By Timothy Furstnau (with FICTILIS) Superheroes at Angel Island By Nick Jones (aka Nick Knave) By Isabel Halpern and Lucia Sanchez A Portrait Project at the Zen Hospice Traveling Heart Hospital Bags Awesöme Orchestra Collective The Library of Joy (A Museum of Joy Project) By Kari Marboe and Erin Johnson StreetStage and Kids POP!

EOYDC summer Science class By Kathryn Kenworth and Sarah Klein Youth Community Center and Garden Growing Together: Neighborhood Orchard Project Valentine's Day Love Letter Scavenger Hunt! Today's Future Sound Presents: Beats4Lunch 24/7 Bike Repair Vending Machine Cardboard Castle Building Workshop Come Out and Play San Francisco The Balloon-Powered Dance Party!

By George Zisiadis, Will Skinner, Isaac Shivvers Ourshelves Lending Library Inner Sunset Street Fair 2011 Inquiring Minds: Science Camp for Adults Panoranima / Spitting Image Meanwhile, San Francisco Microcommunities 100 Dinosaur Painting Scavenger Hunt By Heather Tompkins & Colleen Stockman Sounding the Waters (Sea Change) We're the San Francisco chapter. We love sparking laughter, discussion, action, participation.

⫸⫸ Side-scroll through past grantees ⤴ Want a $1000 grant? Please apply! We fund based on our personal reactions.

We most love knowing your creative ambition! NOTE: Profit-centered business projects will not be considered. Who are we?

See bottom of page ⤵︎ where you can also learn how and when to write to Joel, the Dean of Awesome for our chapter.

Our microgrants of $1,000 are given ⟁ with no strings attached 🗝 based on your awkward, inspired, short description ⦕ one per month, from usually 30–80 applicants, half of whom ignore the hints on this page, at their peril ⨳ preferentially to individuals—especially beginners—over organizations 🔦 an inspired way to address urgent issues or absurd ones 🎈while leveraging playfulness ⚡with plans we'd find unpredictable!

☂ easy to accomplish with just $1,000 ✂ deviations from the main work of your life or your nonprofit or your bigger project ⚗ experiments subject to change as you go along ⥹ interactive or public in some way ➰ daring, odd, loose, too silly for a normal grant source to fund ⇅ within our region (very loosely defined) ∰ Rave about possibility rather than nailing down every detail. Vague budgets are OK, or skip it.

⏢ Represent an established organization? We probably are not your best backing source. ♨ Attempt something strange or something important using unusual methods.

⎌ Be unexpectedly political or wtf fanciful. Tap the mischievous genius of the unsuspecting public. Jostle patterns.

Stimulate quaint solutions. Clarify or muddy, as necessary. We view whimsy as an essential hacking tool and life as a wake-up call.

Break out! The world is serious and polarized. Grassroots political creativity is in short supply.

It's time for ideas that tickle us free. As long as anyone is in danger from injustice, violence, or ecological crash, as long as short-term wealth priorities push sanity aside, as long as we're trained to fear, fit in, stifle creative urges, we feel that more awesome is desperately needed around here. Sometimes the best ways to tackle serious shit is by goofy whimsy or distraction.

Thank you for creating a more awesome world! ⫸⫸ Proposals are welcome any time. The grant is decided at our monthly meeting where we look through ideas that came during the previous calendar month.

For example, apply in May and it'll be considered and announced some time in June. We only have funds for one project per month. ♬ Planning an event?

Apply more than seven weeks ahead to give us time to discuss before your event. If time gets away from you, apply anyway. We may decide to support it, depending on what else we review that month.

The Awesome Foundation is a DIY operation—small clusters of people all around the world. Each chapter pools small personal donations then gives a local, collective, monthly gift from us . We’re informal, not some stuffy organization.

Ask us questions or advice. Now. Whenever.

Use sf@awesomefoundation. org to reach Joel, SF's 5th Dean of Awesome. When to send an email to Joel ❓ ❓ ℞ You have a question or want advice about applying Ω You want to be a microtrustee (pitch in $100 per month, help decide grant winners) ⨕ You want to be on our community discussion list (Friends of Awesome) ⟥ You want to chat with Joel about something completely irrelevant