Last week, I found out that a recent Awesome Foundation Chicago grant winner, Katherine Darnstadt, would be setting up shop just a few blocks away from where I live. Her project, The Milwaukee Avenue Mini Golf Course, would take place on Friday, September 21st from 8AM – 8PM.
The Awesome Foundation is about one thing: forwarding the interest of awesome in the universe, $1,000 at a time. The foundation awards $1,000 grants each and every month to projects they deem awesome.
I’m excited, ecstatic and overly happy to announce the launch of A Poem From Us – a site featuring regular folks sharing their favorite poem with one another. It’s an attempt to mix poetry with YouTube and QR codes, creating what I hope will be an ever-growing archive of people, reading their favorite poems.
Last night, I headed over to Hüettenbar to meet up with some folks from Awesome Foundation Chicago to have some drinks, talk a bit about my project… and to receive the actual $1,000 grant in cash.
Yesterday afternoon, I received an email from the Awesome Foundation, letting me know I had won a $1,000 grant for a project proposal I submitted. My head is still reeling, as it’s still registering that I actually won one of the grants… and that I’ll get to apply these funds towards my project.