{"id":838,"date":"2011-01-22T18:21:22","date_gmt":"2011-01-22T22:21:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelnielsen.org\/blog\/?p=838"},"modified":"2011-01-22T18:21:22","modified_gmt":"2011-01-22T22:21:22","slug":"awesome-grants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelnielsen.org\/blog\/awesome-grants\/","title":{"rendered":"Awesome grants"},"content":{"rendered":"

Beginning this month, every month the Toronto Awesome Foundation<\/a> will give away $1,000 for someone to do something that\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s, well, awesome.<\/p>\n

Here’s how to apply<\/a>. <\/p>\n

There\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s no reporting, no strings, no oversight. Just $1,000 to the winner to do whatever they think is worth doing.<\/p>\n

Deadline for submissions is February 15.<\/p>\n

Many questions are addressed in the links at the bottom of the announcement post<\/a>.<\/p>\n

There are other chapters of the Awesome Foundation<\/a> around the world, and here are a few of the awesome things people have done: grown food to help keep their local food pantry stocked<\/a>; helped get a Fab Lab started in Washington DC<\/a>, and made invisible musical instruments<\/a>. There are many more<\/a>.<\/p>\n

It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s going to happen every month, and you can keep track of announcements at the Toronto Awesome blog<\/a>. I won\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t post updates on my blog every month, but I will on twitter<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The money comes from 10 Trustees<\/a> (I’m one), who each put up $100 a month. I think it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll be fun, and it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a good way of supporting people doing interesting things. <\/p>\n

(Yes, it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s the projects funded that are supposed to be Awesome, not the trustees. Hah hah.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Beginning this month, every month the Toronto Awesome Foundation will give away $1,000 for someone to do something that\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s, well, awesome. Here’s how to apply. There\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s no reporting, no strings, no oversight. Just $1,000 to the winner to do whatever they think is worth doing. Deadline for submissions is February 15. Many questions are addressed… Continue reading Awesome grants<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-838","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelnielsen.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/838","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelnielsen.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelnielsen.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelnielsen.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelnielsen.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=838"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/michaelnielsen.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/838\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":841,"href":"https:\/\/michaelnielsen.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/838\/revisions\/841"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelnielsen.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=838"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelnielsen.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=838"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelnielsen.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=838"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}