Awesome BHX

The Awesome Foundation, an American non-profit organization, distributes $1,000 no-strings-attached grants to support crazy brilliant ideas and projects worldwide; it is headquartered in Boston.

Here are key aspects of the company:

• Products & Services: The foundation awards monthly $1,000 grants with no strings attached to individuals who have a crazy brilliant idea that needs funding.
• Locations: With 68 chapters operating across 9 countries, the organization maintains fully autonomous local communities globally.
• Operations: Funds are pooled by ten or so self-organizing micro-trustees at each chapter and distributed up front in cash, check, or gold doubloons without taking a stake in the project.

Since its creation in Boston during the summer of 2009, The Awesome Foundation has grown into an ever-growing worldwide community devoted to forwarding the interest of awesome in the universe by funding over 7,800 projects totaling nearly $7.8 million.