Breaking news! The Food Chapter of the Awesome Foundation has made its May grant to The Pie Place of Sonoma Valley to install solar panels on their food truck.
This follows our April grant to to the Los Angeles-based restaurant project Thank You For Coming. The March grant went to Hatch Container Farms, an international project which will convert shipping containers into farms for refugee camps and our February grant to the UCSC Seed Library, a seed repository and lending service based at the University of California at Santa Cruz. Previous Awesome Food grants have gone to to Randwiches, a random ingredient sandwich delivery service based in NYC, and SNAP Gardens and Dinner Garden to raise awareness that food stamps can be used to buy seeds for gardening. In 2011, we awarded Awesome Food grants to Concrete Jungle, an Atlanta-based fruit picking group that donates the produce to soup kitchens and homeless shelters, and another to Compost Mobile, a Miami-based service which transforms residential food scraps into compost for community gardens.
Awesome Food continues to accept applications to further food awesomeness in the universe through monthly $1,000 microgrants. Anyone can apply. And we interpret food in its broadest possible way, so use your imagination. The questions are simple and direct.
Where does the money come from?
The microgrants are provided by the trustees. Right now, Awesome Food is also taking applications for new trustee slots that may open up. If you are interested, please fill out the application form.
So what’s the Awesome Foundation?
The Awesome Foundation originally started in Boston in 2009 and has since grown to be a worldwide network of people with nearly 20 chapters in cities across the world, including San Francisco, NYC, Ottawa, London, Berlin, Sydney, Zurich, among others. Projects funded have included a giant hammock in Boston, tram sessions in Melbourne, and a fab lab in Washington DC. Most chapters are geographically focused. But food is topic focused.
Questions?
Check out the pretty extensive FAQ.
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