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Saturday

Opening remarks

This is the third birthday of the Awesome Foundation. It's like "a sperm donor family reunion" - everyone is loosely connected. Why are we here? To get together, meet each other, make new friends, and make connections across chapters. We also have people from all five continents!

What are we going to do? We don't have rules. If something isn't happening and you want it to happen, do it. This includes photography and and live blogging.

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

Sunday sessions

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

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?

  1. Low barriers to entry, for both applicants and participants
    1. Trustees aren't philanthropists, don't see themselves that way
    2. Makes philanthropy accessible
    3. Easy app for grantees, people who don't think of themselves as grant recipients
    4. "I don't have an $100,000 idea, but everyone has a $1000 idea"
  2. P2P giving from one average person to another
    1. Grant recipients have become trustees, it's interchangeable
  3. Constant experimentation
    1. We all innovate on the model
    2. Unofficial motto: "what's the worst that could happen?"
    3. Anyone can start an AF, huge amount of biodiversity
  4. Fun
    1. 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 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:

  1. Build community
  2. Cover unique issues
  3. Build organizational APIs

Spirit of the conference: JFDI (Just .. Do It)

Monday Schedule

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"

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