Citizens of Awesome, has it been two years already? It doesn't seem so. But it's true. We've given away $23,000 to help enable Awesomeness of all kinds in our city. We've funded everything from cool art projects, wicked documentaries, farewell bashes for long standing Calgary landmarks and nerdy robots.
Without your support, we couldn't have made it this far. Every idea that you submit to The Awesome Foundation for consideration, every minute of time you donate to our organization to help us keep things running, every person or organization that's offered space for us to host our events, every person that volunteers to be a Trustee and throws in their own money out of their own pockets each month to help enable awesomeness in the city, and every tweet, share or good word you say to friends, family and strangers to help us spread the word has allowed us to showcase as much awesomeness as we can and has helped the people who come through our doors make connections to help make their ideas a reality, despite, perhaps, not winning our monthly $1,000 micro-grant. All of it has allowed us to grow leaps and bounds in such a short time.
So for that, Citizens of Awesome, we here at AF-Calgary proudly tip our hats to all of you and thank you from the bottoms of our hearts for all your support over these last two years.
And with that, we would like to cordially invite you to come celebrate two whole years of Awesome in the city with us as we award Awesome Calgary grant #24 at our Second Anniversary $1,000 Thursday event on Thursday, April 25.
- What: Awesome Calgary's Second Anniversary $1,000 Thursday Bash!
- Where: Endeavor Arts & Event Space (1290 - 1 Street SW)
- When: Thursday, April 25, 2013. Doors open at 6 p.m.
- RSVP: Facebook and Yelp
Yep, we're returning to where it all began for us two years ago, the Endeavor Arts & Event Space. Shannon and Maria Hoover, the owners of the gallery, have been such great supporters of the Awesome Movement in Calgary, and we can honestly say that if they didn't volunteer to provide us a space to host our very first event back in April 2011, we probably wouldn't be where we are today.
So please, come join us as we say farewell to Year Two and greet Year Three here at AF-Calgary with as much awesomeness as we can muster, and see four great ideas on how to forward the interests of awesome in Calgary (and the universe!) get highlighted.
And if you have an Awesome Idea that you'd like to submit for consideration, please fill out our handy-dandy web form. There's one more day to get your application in for our second anniversary event, as the deadline for submissions is tomorrow, Wednesday, April 10 at 11:59 p.m.
Finally, we're looking for some great Volunteers and new Trustees to help us move forward in Year Three. If you're interested in signing up in whatever capacity, or just want to learn more about what kinds of opportunities are available, come down to our Second Anniversary event this month and meet the team, catch us at one of our Awesome Hours events (they're like Office Hours, but more Awesome) around town (keep an eye here and on Twitter, Facebook and Google+ to see when and where we'll be holding them), or fill out our super-simple application form and one of our Ninjas of Awesome will get back to you.
In fact, we'll have a few Guest Trustee slots available for our Second Anniversary event. If you've ever wanted to try being an AF-Calgary Trustee but weren't sure about the time commitment, taking on a Guest Trustee role for a month might be a great way to dip your toe in the water, and help us fund as much awesomeness in the city as we can. If you're interested, make sure to select the Guest Trustee option on the application form.
Hope to see you out this month at Endeavor, and Stay Awesome!
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