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