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== Monday ==
 
== Monday ==
=== Opening remarks ===
 
* We just celebrated our third birthday
 
* Super quick intro to the Awesome Foundation
 
* Christina is sharing that our logo is 8 in webdings
 
* Sharing last 2 Boston grants as examples
 
* Sharing most recent grant: Portland's Free the Billboards
 
* Last 2 days have been Awesome Summit Assemble
 
* 47 chapters, people from all over the world
 
 
==== What makes us Awesome ====
 
What makes the Awesome Foundation awesome?
 
# Low barriers to entry, for both applicants and participants
 
## Trustees aren't philanthropists, don't see themselves that way
 
## Makes philanthropy accessible
 
## Easy app for grantees, people who don't think of themselves as grant recipients
 
## "I don't have an $100,000 idea, but everyone has a $1000 idea"
 
# P2P giving from one average person to another
 
## Grant recipients have become trustees, it's interchangeable
 
# Constant experimentation
 
## We all innovate on the model
 
## Unofficial motto: "what's the worst that could happen?"
 
## Anyone can start an AF, huge amount of biodiversity
 
# Fun
 
## It's actually fun to be in the Awesome Foundation
 
 
==== IHAS ====
 
[[IHAS]] is a backend for the Awesome Foundation that allows the AF to maintain its nebulous, loosely organized nature. IHAS does things so that chapters don't have to. Basically, IHAS is [http://c2910532.r32.cf0.rackcdn.com/84779-4f0f896236e5c-large.jpg Kitten Voltron].
 
 
==== Awesome Summit: Assemble ====
 
* 26/45 active chapters
 
* 4 fledgling chapters
 
* 5 continents
 
* We have exactly exponential growth so far
 
* Most of the time spent in working groups, one of the most productive Christina has ever been to
 
* Meta-Awesome grant - winner Ponzi Awesome
 
 
==== Awesome Summit: Connect ====
 
Goals:
 
# Build community
 
# Cover unique issues
 
# Build organizational APIs
 
 
Spirit of the conference: JFDI (Just .. Do It)
 
  
 
=== Monday sessions ===
 
=== Monday sessions ===

Revision as of 15:50, 9 August 2012

The 2012 Awesome Summit consists of a 2 day internal summit and a 1 day external event.

Sessions by topic

  • About the AF: Everything pertaining to the then and now of the Awesome Foundation.
  • IHAS: The Institute on Higher Awesome Studies.
  • Meta: The current state of affairs for alternative philanthropy and the AF.
  • Operations: Everything you need to know to run a successful chapter.
  • Summit 2013: Looking towards next year's summit.
  • Tools: Shared materials for chapters.

Saturday

Saturday Schedule

Time Session
9:00am-10:00am Registration/Mingling (coffee will be served)
10:00am-10:15am Opening Remarks/Welcome
10:15am-11:15am Chapter Introductions
11:30am-12:00pm Origin Story: the founding members tell the history of the group
12:00pm-12:30pm State of the Awesome
12:30pm-1:00pm WTF is IHAS
1:00pm-2:00pm lunch
2:00pm-4:00pm Working Groups
Track 1: State of the Awesome
Track 2: Press Materials
Track 3: Summit Planning 2013
4:00pm-4:30pm Break
4:30pm-5:15pm Discussion Groups
Track 1: Dean Support Group
Track 2: More Engaged Trustees
Track 3: Open Track
5:30pm-6:30pm Important Organizational Decisions
7:00pm-??? Dinner and Drinks

Sunday

Summary of discussion groups

What got accomplished?

Sunday schedule

Time Session
10:00am-10:30am Balloon group portrait
10:30am-11:14am Discussion Groups
Track 1: Awesome Event Ideas
Track 2: Helping Fellows w/ More than Money
Track 3: Open Track
11:15am-12:00pm Discussion Groups
Track 1: Getting Great Submissions
Track 2: Painless Deliberations
Track 3: Open Track
12:00pm-1:00pm Lunch
1:00pm-2:30pm Working Groups
Track 1: New Chapter Orientation
Track 2: Graphic Design and Art
Track 3: Website Hacking
2:30pm-3:30pm Summary of Discussion Groups
4:00pm-5:00pm The Future of Awesome
5:00pm-6:00pm Pitches and Awarding of the Metagrant
TBA Awesome Boston grant party


Monday

Monday sessions

Time Session
8:30am-9:00am Registration
9:00am-9:30am Welcome and Introductory Remarks
9:30am-10:30am The Slow Funds Movement
10:30am-11:30am Lightning Talks
11:30am-12:30pm Lunch
12:30pm-1:30pm Decentralized Organizations and Open Brands
1:30pm-2:30pm Giving More Than Money
2:30pm-3:00pm Break
3:00pm-4:00pm The Age of Peak Guilt
4:00pm-5:00pm Attendee-decided sessions
5:00pm-6:00pm Collaboration, not Calcification
6:00pm-6:30pm Wrap Up/Closing Remarks
6:30pm-??? Cocktails and Dinner off-site

Closing remarks

Hopefully ending on a high note!

Working Group Summaries

  • What are we wrong about?
  • Kickstarter Session
    • How do you make the social media explosion happen? Ask at the after-party
  • How to bring the Slow Funding to Political Movements
    • Lessons from Kickstarter & Awesome Foundation can work as models
  • Shout outs to Kara Brickman from AF-Boston, Lori from Civic Media, everyone who live blogged & Erdhart for being the event host

Pages in category "Summit 2012"

The following 6 pages are in this category, out of 6 total.