Could you use a spare $1,000 to make your culinary dream come true? The Boston-based Awesome Foundation, which in the last two years has grown into an international network making micro-grants to engineers, artists, and idealists in 20 cities, has just launched a food-themed grant program, and they’re taking applications now. Like all of the Awesome Foundation grant projects, there’s not much required to apply, just an awesome idea and a plan for how you’d use the $1,000 bucks.
The way the Awesome Foundation works is simple: A group of 10-12 people all sign up to be trustees of their local chapter, and every month, they each commit $100 of their own money to support a new project. Here in Boston, the grants have helped fund a massive hammock, an invisible instruments project, and happiness hats. Creating a food-themed grant network was a logical evolution from that, says Jeff Potter, an author and trustee of the new group. Potter says they received more than 50 applications for projects within the first 24 hours and will be naming their first grantee in August.
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