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| − | + | 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?) | ||
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| + | == 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 | ||
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| + | == 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 | ||
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| + | == 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 | ||
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[[category:About the AF]] | [[category:About the AF]] | ||
[[category:Meta]] | [[category:Meta]] | ||
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.
http://www.wikipedia.org/ wiki
http://www.propecia2013item.com/ buy propecia online - propecia
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
