Tag: Awesome Foundation

Congratulations to the June, July + August winners of the Santa Cruz Awesome Foundation!

In June, Alex Rocha-Alvarez won for her project Photography Workshops for Farmworker Youth which will empower youth to capture the essence of their own homes through photography. Students will learn basic photography skills such as understanding composition, lighting, focus, and exposure, but the focus will be on encouraging them to find special parts of their community that they want to capture and convey to others.

July’s winner was Chris Garcia with Literature for Laundrymats, a project aiming to fill a void by presenting material of literary merit to those waiting for their clothes to dry. Designed to be read in portions, the project has already began to get submissions and has designed a plan to deliver the zine to laundry facilities around Santa Cruz county.

And in August, we awarded Elizabeth Yznaga for Senior-focused CPR/AED Instruction, which will fund upgraded equipment and allow for new weekly AED mini workshops at the Santa Cruz Community Farmer’s Markets specifically targeting the education of seniors.

Check out past projects here…

We love reviewing these amazing, creative ideas – keep them coming Santa Cruz! $1000 micro-grants are given out monthly. Got an Awesome idea that needs a little funding? Pitch it here!

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Congratulations to the April + May winners of the Santa Cruz Awesome Foundation!

In April, Anthony Alcala, owner of The Booth Bus won with their project of partnering with Digital Nest to offer their students and other local Watsonville schools with free high-end, professional head-shots to help them with their future career ambitions in the tech industry.

May winner Kendall Grady, a bipolar writing instructor and Ph.D. candidate in Literature at UCSC will be hosting a neurodiverse poetry workshop to foster mutual care and trust whereby participants can become more intimate with those qualities of which may be under-recognized or undernourished.

Check out past projects here…

We love reviewing these amazing, creative ideas – keep them coming Santa Cruz! $1000 micro-grants are given out monthly. Got an Awesome idea that needs a little funding? Pitch it here!

I’m so proud to say that the Awesome Foundation of Santa Cruz just gave away it’s 13th micro-grant! That’s $13,000 going out into the community to make Santa Cruz more awesome!

Congratulations to the first two winners of 2024! In January, the group selected Melissa Kreisa of MK Contemporary Gallery for her project Rydell Foundation Showcase and February’s winner was Suzanne Connolly & Jessie Marie for their project Mic Drop! Open Mic. Check out past projects here…

We love reviewing these amazing, creative ideas – keep them coming Santa Cruz! $1000 micro-grants are given out monthly. Got an Awesome idea that needs a little funding? Pitch it here!

Since April of 2023, the Santa Cruz Awesome Foundation has given away $11,000 in micro-grants to creative individuals who are making Santa Cruz more awesome and we couldn’t be prouder to be able to end the year supporting TWO fabulous projects this December.

Congrats to Monica Galvan for her project Holiday Magic Workshop and to Abram Katz for his project Unseen Faces of Santa Cruz. Click the links to learn more about these projects.

We love reviewing these amazing, creative ideas – keep them coming Santa Cruz! $1000 micro-grants are given out monthly. Got an Awesome idea that needs a little funding? Pitch it here!

The Santa Cruz Chapter of the Awesome Foundation picked its eighth & ninth winner this month! We had an anonymous donation that allowed for us to give out 2 micro-grants this month.

Congrats to Shane Scopatz for their project, On Eco-Antisemitism and to Barbara Froto for her project BeTV!  

We love reviewing these amazing, creative ideas – keep them coming Santa Cruz! $1000 micro-grants are given out monthly. Got an Awesome idea that needs a little funding? Pitch it here!