Yesterday, the Trustees of A2Awesome convened in the secret writing lab behind the Liberty Street Robot Supply and Repair store in downtown Ann Arbor, and handed out another $3,000 in cash grants intended to make life the Ypsi-Arbor area more awesome. The cash awards were handed over in brown paper bags to artist Trevor Stone, […]
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A2Awesome gives out another $3,000 in grants to brilliant people doing inspiring things in the Ypsi-Arbor area
A2Awesome awards its first $1,000 grant. Congratulations to Nathan Ayers!
As I mentioned a while back, I’m one of a group of people to who decided, not too long ago, to start a local chapter of Boston’s Awesome Foundation. Well, this morning, our group – christened A2Awesome – handed over its first $1,000 grant. The funds were given, in a brown paper bag, to Nathan […]
A2Awesome, the Awesome Foundation’s local Washtenaw County chapter, announces launch, and promises $1,000 in monthly cash grants for awesome ideas
For those of you who didn’t catch the announcement on AnnArbor.com today, I’ve got some potentially good news to share. Thanks to the efforts of Neutral Zone founder Lisa Dengiz, and a small but active group of community-minded individuals, Ann Arbor is, as of today, home to a branch of the Boston-based micro-philanthropic organization – […]
Kathleen Edward, the little girl being bullied by adults in Trenton, will be in Ann Arbor on Thursday – please be nice to her
By now, everyone’s seen the heart-breakingly sad news story about the terminally-ill seven year old girl in Trenton, Michigan whose neighbors have been harassing her – posting photos of her face floating like a skull above crossbones online, and parking a truck hauling a coffin in front of her home. It’s truly sickening stuff, and […]