John’s was individually dreamed of by 4 individuals who came together to share their vision and inspiration, and the rest is history! Grants to create something awesome don’t come around every day. John’s. So for the artists, the community builders, the tech visionaries, the socially conscious and others with ideas that can be described as ‘awesome’ there’s now help. Help, in the form of a $1000 grant to make an awesome idea happen. Open your brain and dig into our pockets. If you can come up with something that the Awesome St. John’s trustees deem to be ‘awesome’, well then you’re going to have some money on your hands to get it done. What’s awesome? People in other cities have made concrete ping pong tables for public areas, built large-scale public instruments, and provided basic healthcare to the homeless. Created in the long hot summer days of 2009 in Boston, the Foundation distributes a series of $1,000 grants to projects and their creators. The money is given upfront in cash, check, or Battlestar Cubits by groups of ten or so self-organizing “micro-trustees,” who form autonomous chapters around geographic areas or topics of interest. Since its humble beginnings, many Awesome Foundation chapters have sprung up globally to conserve, sustain, and support the worldwide ecosystem of Awesomeness.
