FORWARDING THE INTEREST OF AWESOME IN THE UNIVERSE, $1,000 AT A TIME.

The Foundation provides these grants with no strings attached and claims no ownership over the projects it supports. It is, in the words of one of our trustees, a micro-genius grant for flashes of micro-brilliance.

Awesome Foundation Boulder gives away a thousand bucks each month to a project that will make Boulder more awesome. Send in your project that will make Boulder a more awesome, happy, super cool place to live.

The impact of cuts to public services is not evenly distributed.

Finding ways to cooperate with governments to sustain new public spaces, works of art, etc. is surely going to be a key part of civic crowdfunding projects going forward, and ensuring that projects have built appropriate government ties should be a criterion for evaluating viable projects.