#AwesomeDisability | May's Winner & Apply for June's Grant
Our 100th grant!
With today’s announcement, we have awarded grants to 100 awesome disability projects!
The winner of May’s Awesome Foundation Disability Chapter (#AwesomeDisability) grant is Eve Parrott with ScoliPoly!
Visit https://www.awesomefoundation.org/en/projects/346615-scolipoly to learn more about the project!
What our grantee is saying: “Receiving the Awesome Disability grant will be no doubt transformative for my project and team. Working out of a small budget, yet remaining committed to providing free access to our resources, ScoliPoly has often struggled to balance the needs of scoliotic community members with our financial limitations. Despite forming partnerships with schools and hospitals in our chapter areas, said limitations have placed delays on our work with them at the expense of thousands of children that lack the information necessary to accurately assess their back health. A single Awesome grant, however, can expand our educational services to up to 5,000 more children. We’re so excited to use Awesome’s generous award to produce new informational pamphlets, streamline our online resources, and reach out to our community’s most vulnerable. The ScoliPoly team is incredibly grateful for the Foundation’s support!”
A few reminders & updates:
Submit your application between the 1st and the 10th of each month to be considered for that month’s grant. If you apply outside of this window, you will not be considered. Apply for a grant at http://disability.awesomefoundation.org
Submissions MUST be submitted in English (use Google Translate if needed).
If you identify as a person with a disability and can commit to contributing $100/month for at least 3 months, join us as a trustee! Help us spread the word on Twitter!
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Awesome Disability dean and cofounder Tiffany Yu’s book, The Anti-Ableist Manifesto, is now out in print, audio, and ebook. Check out the excerpt in The Guardian and leave an online review to reach more readers!
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- Trustees of the Awesome Foundation Disability Chapter (Tiffany, Walei, Alexandra, Adam, Rynn, Kathryn, Nico, Anya, Elena, Cynthia, and Prithu)
The Awesome Foundation Disability Chapter is an entirely volunteer-run and 100% disability-led economic justice initiative launched in 2017 by Alice Wong and Tiffany Yu.
Our impact to date: $99,500 to 100 projects in 16 countries (Cameroon, Canada, Ecuador, India, Malawi, Nepal, the Netherlands, Nigeria, Peru, Philippines, Rwanda, Tanzania, Tunisia, Uganda, U.K., and U.S. ).