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<p><b>New page</b></p><div>Presentation by Kevin F. Adler<br />
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== How to extend the awesomeness beyond the Awesome Foundation ==<br />
Or, the short talk that will lead to a breakout session that I rewrote at 2:30 yesterday<br />
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Talking a bit about the San Francisco chapter, and their first project: [http://blog.awesomefoundation.org/2010/05/21/history-of-the-sky-wins-the-first-bay-area-awesome-grant/ History of the Sky] to take time-lapse photography of the sky <br />
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'''Thesis 1:'''<br />
More people want to be trustees than is possible<br />
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'''Thesis 2:'''<br />
There are more worthy projects that apply for grants than are possible<br />
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'''Thesis 3'''<br />
What do we know? Over the past few years, we have as of right now: $1,951,000 granted, 1951 projects funded, 82 chapters, 18 countries<br />
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What can we take from all of these experiments that we can do?<br />
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All of these theses are maybe not true, so what are we left with? <br />
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== 4 questions: ==<br />
# What projects do we fund? (orphans and flamethrowers, but maybe we need to rethink what a flamethrower really means, maybe we have to start w/ kindling)<br />
#* (Guest mini-lecture from Caprice from Detroit about [http://www.awesomefoundation.org/en/projects/40748-caprice-connects-with-detroit Caprice Connects], her short film about connections, which led to being a trustee, which led to presenting at Sundance)<br />
#* One project by itself can grow beyond what it originally started as<br />
# What communities do we engage?<br />
#* Detroit allows the community to hear the pitches, build collaboration among the public where necessary<br />
#* His research has been on how disasters and how it engages people--people are MORE likely to connect during times of stress than less<br />
#* The applications that come in are a gold mine of information<br />
# Who are our trustees?<br />
#* Old-school philanthropy is stodgy old dudes, this is not who we are<br />
#* We need to tell our own stories as well as that of our grantees<br />
#* New trustees team as well as a new chapters team<br />
# How do we celebrate others?<br />
#* Even just a word of support will help without a grant. ''We're the Awesome Foundation. And we believe in you.''</div>Dough