Awesome Georgetown

05/28/2026

What a night!

We are so excited that we got to wrap up our 5th season by giving away two grants - one to the GMHS Track Team to get new uniforms, and one to the 4-H of Essex County!

Over the last 5 seasons, our trustees have given $50,000 to projects just like these in order to invest in making Georgetown even more awesome.

We’ll be back in the fall for Season 6!

Have an idea for a project to help make Georgetown even better? Submit your proposal on our website and you’ll be in the queue for Season 6!

04/29/2026

04/29/2026

Another AWESOME update 👏👏👏

Thank you Awesome Georgetown! Thanks to your generosity, we are able to purchase a laptop to replace an ancient desktop computer which could no longer be supported. This laptop will help create and show our digital archives and help us answer visitor’s questions when they come to the Brocklebank Museum for tours. Thank you again for being so Awesome!!! Awesome Georgetown

03/26/2026

Congratulations! $1500 was awarded tonight to Georgetown Mass Memories Road Show!

Awesome Idea:
UMass Boston does “road shows” to create digital archives for communities in Massachusetts. They haven’t been to Georgetown yet! I’m on the Historical Commission, and I think it would be great to do this road show for Georgetown.

How will this project make Georgetown more AWESOME?
Mass Memories Road Show enables people in a community to tell their stories - about themselves and their families and their memories of the town they live in. The digital archive will be available on the UMass Boston digital archives site for anyone to see and read.

03/23/2026

Pure AWESOMENESS!!

The Largest Awesome Zone on Earth Is Right Here

The Awesome Foundation has chapters in 9 countries. Map them by proximity and more than a dozen geographic zones appear — clusters where the same idea took root independently, in adjacent towns, among strangers who never coordinated. The Netherlands. Ontario. The Great Lakes. The Bay Area. The Hudson Corridor. The Chesapeake. Texas. The Twin Cities. Florida. Chicago-South Bend. The Pacific Northwest. New South Wales. South Australia. Armenia.
And then the North Shore, which outranks them all by chapter count.

Six chapters within an hour’s drive. 359 grants. $359,000 into this coastline. Gloucester alone accounts for 227 of them — one grant for every 132 residents in a city of 30,000.

Rockport at 49. Georgetown at 45. Ipswich at 32. Hamilton-Wenham at 4. Newburyport at 2 and still going.

The highest concentration of Awesome Foundation chapters anywhere in the world. Six communities, some just getting going, some that have been at it for years, all of them handing cash to neighbors with ideas.

awesomefoundation.org

02/16/2026

An AWESOME update!
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The Essex County Pet Pantry

We want to give a HUGE and heartfelt thank you to Awesome, Georgetown for your incredibly generous $1,000 donation to the Essex County Pet Pantry. 💜

Since opening on 12/13/25, we have already helped 28 families in our community keep their pets fed and cared for during difficult times.

Here’s what your generosity has helped provide to local families:

🐶 Dog Donations
• 118.6 lbs of dry dog food
• 17 cans of dog food
• 5 containers of treats
• 8 dog toys
• 1 dog bed
• 3 crates
• 1 food storage container
• 2 blankets
🐱 Cat Donations
• 157 lbs of cat litter
• 37.5 lbs of dry cat food
• 132 cans of cat food
• 10 containers of cat treats
• 8 Churus
• 8 cat toys
• 1 cat nip container
• 1 cat carrier

Your donation directly translated into full bowls, wagging tails, purring cats, and families who didn’t have to make the heartbreaking choice between feeding themselves or feeding their pets.

This is what community looks like. We are beyond grateful for your belief in our mission and for investing in the families and animals of Essex County. We are just getting started and look at what we’ve already accomplished together. 🐾💜 Thank you so much!!

01/29/2026

Thank YOU for making Georgetown AWESOME!

We are so excited to have been able to award TWO $1,000 grants tonight - one Georgetown Historical Society - Sharing Georgetown’s Heritage 💻 and the other to Essex County Pet Pantry! 🐱 🐶

Your projects have such a positive impact in this community. We are awesome because of people like you!🙌🏻

Have an idea? 💡 Want some $$$ to bring it to life? 💵 Send it our way, and you might be invited to our next pitch night in March! (When it will be much warmer! 😎

12/04/2025

Thank YOU for making Georgetown AWESOME!

We are so excited to have been able to award TWO grants tonight ($1,000 EACH) - one to Art & Soul: Creative Club & Homework Club, and the other to Royals Music Project. We can’t wait to see your projects come to life and make an impact in this community. We are awesome because of people like you!

Have an idea? Send it our way, and you might be invited to our next pitch night for a chance to get some $$$ to make your ideas come to life.

10/30/2025

Another AWESOME update!

Thank you to the Awesome Georgetown Foundation for their generous grant to It Takes A Herd™ ~ A Dementia Friendly Equine Assisted Program ~ for Georgetown residents and their care partners. Awesome Georgetown’s support of this program is part of the overall goal to make Georgetown more “Dementia Aware” and inclusive for those living with dementia in the community.

Care partners and their loved ones living with dementia enjoyed a 4-week series of It Takes A Herd™ hosted at Lazy J Ranch in Salisbury, MA. Karen Coppola, a certified dementia practitioner and long-time resident of Georgetown, created and facilitated the program providing participants with an opportunity to reconnect to their original roles within their partnership. An amazing experience of Connection, Camaraderie and Community with others who are walking through the journey of dementia.