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
Posted in A2Awesome, Ann Arbor, Uncategorized, Ypsilanti Also tagged Alice Liberson, Awesome Foundation, Dick Soble, Hans Masing, Heather MacKenzie, Jeff Meyers, Larry Grant, Linh Song, Monique Deschaine, Omari Rush, Tanya Luz 6 Comments
Zingerman’s: This is Ownership
The following video, if I’m not mistaken, was produced to coincide with the recent BALLE conference in Grand Rapids, which, to a great degree, revolved around the subject of employee ownership. In this video, Paul Saginaw explains why, ten years after the launch of Zingerman’s Delicatessen, he and his co-founder, Ari Weinzweig, decided upon an […]
Amanda Sari Perez on winning this month’s A2Awesome grant, and the geodesic dome she’s built with the money
Today, the trustees of A2Awesome handed over $1,000 to Amanda Sari Perez for the creation of an enormous geodesic dome, which she hopes will serve as a platform on which others in the community can express their creativity. Following is my interview with her. MARK: To start out, could you tell us a bit about […]
Posted in Ann Arbor, Art and Culture, Awesome Foundation Also tagged A2Awesome, A2MechShop, Alice Liberson, All Hands Active, Amanda Sari Perez, brain implants, Buckminster Fuller, Burning Man, creativity, Dick Soble, DIY, Dome Sweet Dome, Figment, geodesic dome, grants, hacking, Heather MacKenzie, inh Song, interview, Lakes of Fire, Lisa Dengiz, Maker Faire, Maker Works, making stuff, micro-philanthropy, public art, Syncytium 6 Comments