Startups
Funding / Good Works

See the 7 projects that Philly’s Awesome Foundation has funded

Launched last fall by O3 World partner Keith Scandone, the local Awesome Foundation chapter grants $1,000 to one organization each month. Each member of the chapter contributes $100.

Photographer Sandy Sorlien is building a 5-foot water molecule made of all sorts of balls that she found on the Schuylkill River.

Philadelphia’s Awesome Foundation is helping make it happen. The local chapter of a national microgrant organization gave Sorlien $1,000 for her project, dubbed Rescue H20. It’ll be on display during Art in the Open in May.

Launched last fall by O3 World partner Keith Scandone, the local Awesome Foundation chapter grants $1,000 to one organization each month. Each member of the chapter contributes $100.

See all the funded projects here.

The chapter’s members include AWeber‘s business development lead Hunter Boyle, SEER Interactive SEO associate Alisa Scharf and social media consultant Trina King.

Companies: O3 World / SEER Interactive
Engagement

Join the conversation!

Find news, events, jobs and people who share your interests on Technical.ly's open community Slack

Trending

Philly daily roundup: East Market coworking; Temple's $2.5M engineering donation; WITS spring summit

Philly daily roundup: Jason Bannon leaves Ben Franklin; $26M for narcolepsy treatment; Philly Tech Calendar turns one

Philly daily roundup: Closed hospital into tech hub; Pew State of the City; PHL Open for Business

From lab to market: Two Philly biotech founders on AI’s potential to revolutionize medicine

Technically Media