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Let's just talk about AWESOME stuff for the future. Dream big and keep it positive.
 
Let's just talk about AWESOME stuff for the future. Dream big and keep it positive.
  
== Growing the AF ==
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* Let's just see an Awesome Foundation chapter in every city.
 
** What if everyone in America was a trustee
 
* Make the AF open source, more transparency and available documentation of what we have done right and wrong
 
** More publishing of process, should help with grant proposals because will people will see how do-able it is
 
* Chapters within existing orgs - companies, universities, etc.
 
* Christina wants to make a Reddit AF
 
* We should make barriers to entry lower and easier
 
* How will we handle geography and boundaries as we get more and more chapters
 
* More chapters in small, rural areas where it's a huge deal
 
** less competition with stuff that's happening already
 
** huge impact
 
* Let's make an unofficial goal of 100 chapters next year
 
  
=== Granting ===
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* Trustees should lead be example and apply for Awesome grants!
 
** We should consider ourselves and grantees all part of the same community
 
* What if we made an AF-internal meta-grant?
 
** re: concerns of favoritism, higher barrier because trustees hold themselves to higher standards
 
* Or a chapter where only the trustees can apply, so the money gets shuffled around month to month
 
* Help grow things by occasionally funding projects from random places that aren't in cities with chapters
 
 
 
== Collaboration ==
 
* Awesome as a portal between small projects
 
** Like Kiva for Awesome
 
** Traveling projects that go between chapters
 
** Inter-grantee collaborations
 
* Develop an international grantee community
 
* global AF community couchsurfing
 
* source of video and pitches and promos and articles and other media
 
  
 
== Spreading the word ==
 
== Spreading the word ==

Latest revision as of 04:18, 6 May 2013

Let's just talk about AWESOME stuff for the future. Dream big and keep it positive.

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Spreading the word

  • Awesome museum exhibits
  • Let's become The Example of how to do micro-funding and citizen philanthropy
  • Foundations and institutions think we're cool already, we can leverage that
    • But we should not worry about seeking those out, just make ourselves available
  • Let's have an international holiday (suggestions: 4/4, 4/29, founding date of Boston chapter, something involving 8?)

Collaborations

  • A team-up of something like the Awesome Foundation and the Gates Foundation
    • Ellen and Nikki know people at the Gates Foundation
    • What if the GF paid us to go places and do things?
    • What if we just did that without the GF?
  • certified Awesome stamps for venues and businesses that supports us

Programs

  • What if we had full-time Awesome Fellows whose job was to help people?
  • Annual international Awesome Summit, and then regional summits
    • next year's summit should have Awesome Awards
    • and sharing craziest grants/applications
  • Bigger events, like the Awesome Camping Trip
  • Workshops and techniques and office hours to help people come up with better awesome ideas
    • less self-serving project proposals
    • maybe guest trustee programs will help, since people will have a better idea of how to do things

Long-term thinking

  • Willow: let's not grow out of our niche, because we're filling a space that needs to be filled
  • We have a responsibility and a opportunity to build this way of thinking in our culture
    • it's success if it replicated and spread and copied
  • What's the role of artificially growing things and cultivating chapters instead of letting it grow organically?
    • AF Rio was cultivated by Christina and Lee Sean being there simultaneously, inviting a bunch of people to dinner, and talking about Awesome
    • It would be nice to do that under IHAS