On the evening of Thursday February 6th, Awesome Palm Beach, the Palm Beach County chapter of the Awesome Foundation, met for its Pitch Party and Grant Award and donated a $1,700 micro-grant to Jack The Bike Man.

February application deadline is midnight on Sunday Feb 9th! Get your thinking caps on , or meet with a few friends to brainstorm some ideas and put in an application. Remember no idea is too big or too small, it just needs to be Awesome in some way for Kingston!   We hope to see you at the next pitch party on Thursday Feb 20th at the Grad Club. Seating starts at 630pm, and pitches are at 7pm. After the pitch party stick around for Awesome Hours and then test your brain power with trivia at the Grad Club starting at 9pm. Watch our facebook page for the event listing.    

Each month Awesome Palm Beach gives a minimum of $1,000 to a project, no strings attached. In Februrary we invite anyone to join us and support AWESOMENESS in Palm Beach County! This month we are accepting pitch presentation from these very worth finalists and will get a short updated from our December winner: Jack the Bike Man Jack the Bike Man, Inc. is a growing non-profit organization and is so much more than your average bicycle collective. Not only does Jack the Bike Man have a variety of projects that make up the Wheels of Hope Program, which gave away more than 1000 bikes during the 2013 holiday season, but also provides jobs to at-risk youth in West Palm Beach. Summer Reading for Children 6-9 We will purchase fun, engaging reading material for ages 6-9 that will captivate their interests during the summer break out of school. This will also include incentives for children that fulfill the commitment of 15 minutes of reading per day. South Florida Crowd Funding Will work to keep crowd funds local for local entrepreneurs we help, creating jobs locally as we develop a regional brand through our fourth mission function – Cooperation. Cooperation throughout the… read more →

The Pitches have been selected and they are ready to showcase their Awesome ideas for Kingston on Thursday Jan 23rd starting at 7pm!   We are partnering with the Launch Labs and Kingston Maker Space for the event this month to make a full four days of Awesome events all taking place at the same location! So please join us at the Woolen Mill Building at 2 Cataraqui Street, Suite W24. To find us drive past the building towards the back of the lot. There will be the Awesome Kingston sign at the top of the stairs. Go down the stairs and we will be in the first room on the left. Doors open at 630pm, and the Pitch Party gets underway at 7pm. There will be some treats available at the event! And if you need more than just one night of Awesome events, then talk to us or check out the Kingston Maker Space group for their JunkYard War activity going on this weekend!  

We are thrilled to announce the newest addition to our funded projects list with this month’s grant recipient: We Radiate! Did you know that New York City landfills over 1 million tons of organic material annually? We Radiate meets the challenges of two urgent concerns: solid waste management and energy. Their vision enables communities to create, maintain, and possess their own energy generating locally from compost. Read more about the project here.