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Posts by: johnc
Small Projects, Big Impact
Some creative projects require years of planning, large staffs, and extensive fundraising campaigns. Others don’t – but that doesn’t mean that smaller projects are easy to accomplish or that they are any less important.
On March 2, 2013, John Carnwath and Derek Sherman of The Chicago Awesome Foundation sat down with [...]
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We thought we’d try something new this month, so instead of picking our winner in the smokey backroom of an undisclosed location like we usually do, we invited six finalists to pitch their project proposals to a live audience and let the crowd decide on the winner. All six of the projects were certainly worthy [...]
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The Chicago Awesome Foundation is teaming up with the Next Door Café to bring you the first Awesome Hour of 2013. This a great chance to hear about exciting new projects here in town, meet the awesome folks behind the projects, and help decide who gets $1000 to make their project happen. The event is [...]
Read more →Alexandra Schindler is an intern at the Dunes Learning Center in Northwest Indiana. She mostly leads interpretive hikes and other educational programs about the biodiverse ecology of the Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore where the learning center is located, but she saw an additional opportunity to make the place she works more awesome. Despite efforts to [...]
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Since we had such a good time at the Creative Chicago Expo last year, spreading the word about the Awesome Foundation and talking to to folks about their Awesome new project ideas, we’re going back for more! In addition to having vendor booth where people can stop by to talk to our trustees anytime between [...]
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This week the Chicago Awesome Foundation presented its latest grantee, Matt Litwin, with his $1000 cash award with all the pomp and circumstance that has come to be expected of our award ceremonies.
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We’re starting 2013 off strong with an awesome project on the west side of town. 23-year-old Matt Litwin is a mural artist and a resident of West Garfield Park. For those who don’t know, West Garfield Park has the dubious distinction of being the neighborhood with the highest rate of violent crime in all of Chicago, [...]
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We’ve dutifully been handing out cash to awesome projects over the winter months, but we haven’t always been as diligent about announcing the winners here. (Sorry!) Back in December we selected Charity White, the head of the Fine Arts Department at Chicago Vocational Career Academy, as the winner of our $1000 grant. Even if you’re not [...]
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David Daniels recently sent us an update on his Jurassic Geriatrics project. He’s already taken his fossil collection to three retirement communities since receiving his Awesome Foundation grant and has more visits planned for 2013.
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On her daily commute to the Loop, trans-disciplinary performance artist Josie Davis has often looked out over the expanse of flat rooftops on either side of the L and has seen in them a vast empty stage. In May/June 2013, she plans to fill this stage with dancers performing waltzes in eye-catching costumes to greet [...]
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