The KW Awesome Foundation is a local group of volunteer Trustees, who commit their time and money into funding great projects, ideas and causes in Waterloo Region. We hit the ground running in 2011 and haven’t stopped since!
We’ve had the chance to fund a lot of really neat things in Kitchener-Waterloo, from guerrilla gardening and student events, to indie films, home-run community workshops, art installations and more.
We award this $1,000 grant every two months through our Pitch Nights, where applicants come to speak in front of the group of Trustees, to convince us why their project is special.
We welcome anyone to attend, whether your pitching or observing. The best part of the night is when everyone gets together and shares ideas and inspiration. Typically, our events are hosted at accessible public spaces like restaurants or breweries.
About The Awesome Foundation
The Awesome Foundation is an ever-growing, worldwide network of people devoted to forwarding the interest of awesomeness in the universe. Created in the long hot summer days of 2009 in Boston, the Foundation distributes a series of monthly $1,000 grants to projects and their creators. The money is pooled together from the coffers of ten or so self-organizing “micro-trustees” and given upfront in cash, check, or gold doubloons. The chapters are autonomous and organized by the trustees around geographic areas or topics of interest.
Over $7,200,000 granted by Awesome Foundations
The Foundation provides these grants with no strings attached and claims no ownership over the projects it supports. It is, in the words of one of our trustees, a micro-genius grant for flashes of micro-brilliance.
Would you like to know more?
If you’re still craving more input, or want to know more about the KW Awesome Foundation fill out the contact form below, which goes straight to our Trustees.