Sponsors of Awesome:
Columbia Tower Club
Awesome Seattle
Ventures
See last event's projects
We want to fill downtown Burien with unique and interesting spaces for building community. We’ve been working for years to clean up the alley behind Burien Press and turn it in to a space to host art and community events. Now we want to convert a previously wasted space behind our coffee shop into a beautiful and welcoming space that bumps up against the alley.
We would love to work with people who want to make Burien more awesome by creating a new garden space, a new venue and want to support the arts and the revitalization of wasted spaces in our community.
Inspired photography to make some good happen in the world. In this project an Awesome Fest team sets up an area in a public park for the afternoon and works with a pro photographer to photograph people with their pets. For a small donation ($10-$20), people can have professional photos taken of their pets, which they can then download off of a website. Donations benefit an animal shelter in the Seattle Metro area.
The project calls for some inspired assistants to hustle for the event day of and some publicity to have this make as much happiness for park goers and good for an animal shelter happen as possible. Bonus points for talent able to rally media coverage.
Join Ventures to empower 20 families to move off of public assistance and increase their income above the federal poverty line (above $24,250/year for a family of 4) in the next 18 months.
Ventures programs are proven to help entrepreneurs with limited resources and unlimited potential improve their lives through small business ownership. With $60,000, we can equip 20 additional entrepreneurs with the training, tools and resources they require to build their businesses and change their lives. The game during Awesome Fest is to get a small team in action towards this goal with some serious strides to report at the follow up event.
Asylum is a film by a Seattle native which looks at the connection between mental illness and domestic violence. It has a compelling trailer (see it here and needs to raise about $16,000 to film.
The project is to get this local film closer to fruition: organize an event to feature one of the mini documentaries that was created through the pitch video, and get the word out to organizations & businesses within the King Co. area as a means to promote the event.
Awesome Projects
We're putting together a project grab bag.
We're all of us talented and motivated folks, but coming up with an enticing 3-week project with a group of strangers in just an hour or two might still be a tall order. So there'll be a grab bag of projects for teams to choose from/be inspired by in case creating one from scratch isn't immediately obvious.
What kind of projects? Try a few of these sample ideas on for size:
Burien Press Urban Garden
Champion: Matthew Wendland
We want to fill downtown Burien with unique and interesting spaces for building community. We’ve been working for years to clean up the alley behind Burien Press and turn it in to a space to host art and community events. Now we want to convert a previously wasted space behind our coffee shop into a beautiful and welcoming space that bumps up against the alley.We would love to work with people who want to make Burien more awesome by creating a new garden space, a new venue and want to support the arts and the revitalization of wasted spaces in our community.
Pups in the Park
Inspired photography to make some good happen in the world. In this project an Awesome Fest team sets up an area in a public park for the afternoon and works with a pro photographer to photograph people with their pets. For a small donation ($10-$20), people can have professional photos taken of their pets, which they can then download off of a website. Donations benefit an animal shelter in the Seattle Metro area.The project calls for some inspired assistants to hustle for the event day of and some publicity to have this make as much happiness for park goers and good for an animal shelter happen as possible. Bonus points for talent able to rally media coverage.
Building Businesses and Changing Lives
Champion: Anjali Englund
Join Ventures to empower 20 families to move off of public assistance and increase their income above the federal poverty line (above $24,250/year for a family of 4) in the next 18 months.Ventures programs are proven to help entrepreneurs with limited resources and unlimited potential improve their lives through small business ownership. With $60,000, we can equip 20 additional entrepreneurs with the training, tools and resources they require to build their businesses and change their lives. The game during Awesome Fest is to get a small team in action towards this goal with some serious strides to report at the follow up event.
Asylum Short Film
Champion: Melinda Raebyne
Asylum is a film by a Seattle native which looks at the connection between mental illness and domestic violence. It has a compelling trailer (see it here and needs to raise about $16,000 to film.The project is to get this local film closer to fruition: organize an event to feature one of the mini documentaries that was created through the pitch video, and get the word out to organizations & businesses within the King Co. area as a means to promote the event.
Tiny House Village
Champion: Mercedes Elizalde