Difference between revisions of "Future of awesome"

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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

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?)

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

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

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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 Let's just talk about AWESOME stuff for the future. Dream big and keep it positive.
-== Growing the AF ==
+http://www.wikipedia.org/ wiki
-* 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 ===
-* 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 ==