New, local chapter of international Awesome Foundation to award quarterly grants to local individuals or teams with great ideas.
Awesome Bend, a local chapter of the Awesome Foundation, is seeking applications for its first $1,000 grant. The award will go to the project proposal that is most likely to make a positive impact on the community. A group of ten trustees who each donate $100 to form the collective grant will select the winner at a Pitch Night, which will be free and open to the public on April 21. The application deadline is April 1. Applications can be found at www.awesomebend.org and take less than 10 minutes to fill out.
“We are so excited to get things started,” said Pam Stevenson, who co-founded Awesome Bend with fellow Bend resident LeeAnn Kriegh. “We believe Bend is brimming with leaders, dreamers, artists, inventors, movers and shakers with do-good ideas that can make Bend an even better place to live, work and play. Our mission is to inspire and support those ideas with some money and mentorship to help turn them into reality.”
What Is Awesome Bend?
Awesome Bend is a local chapter of the Awesome Foundation, which has more than 107 chapters worldwide that have given away over $1.4 million.
The guidelines for grant selection include:
1. The project must be feasible and completed within three months of the award.
2. The money cannot be used for personal expenses or operating expenses for an established charity.
3. Grantees agree to return to the next Pitch Night and tell the community about their project, inspiring others.
For more information about the Pitch Night, to apply for a grant or to apply to become a trustee, please visit www.awesomebend.org or email awesomebend@gmail.com.
Awesome Bend is a local charitable group that awards quarterly micro-grants to support entrepreneurial projects that make Bend a better place to live. Co-founded by Bend residents Pam Stevenson and LeeAnn Kriegh, the group is a chapter of the Awesome Foundation, which has more than 100 chapters worldwide that have donated over $1 million to worthy projects.
