Awesome Foundation

"[1] Most chapters consist of ten trustees who pool contributions in a crowd-funding model and award a $1,000 grant[2] each month to a project and person of their choice.

Tim developed the idea along with Emily Daniels and Jon Pierce during a road trip to a meet up at AS220 and soon after sent out the call for the first set of trustees.

[5] The Awesome Foundation has funded a wide range of projects including the arts, science, and social causes.

[9] The resulting final project set a record for the world's largest portable hammock,[10][11] using curved steel pipes to frame 4,278 feet of rope fashioned from recycled bottles.

[12] [irrelevant citation] A video of Random Swings of Joy,[13] a project funded by the Los Angeles chapter to install $1,000 worth of swings around the city, went viral in June 2011, receiving coverage from the Huffington Post,[14] CBS News,[15] and LAist.