Earlier this week, the Awesome Foundation of Birmingham announced they had chosen Ruffner Mountain as the October recipient of their monthly $1000 grant.

Launched in January, the Awesome Foundation gives out a $1000 grant each month to an organization or project that supports sciences, arts, education, civic engagement, media, and entertainment — just about anything as long as it contributes to making The Magic City more AWESOME!

Bham Now wrote about the Awesome Foundation’s first grant back in January when they presented their inaugural award to the UAB Solar Decathlon. That special group of students, faculty and staff have gone on to compete in Denver, Colorado against universities from across the nation this month with their “SurvivAL” house.

Here is Bham Now’s complete coverage of the Alabama Team Surviv(AL) house starting with the grant from the Awesome Foundation back in January.

Awesome The Awesome Foundation is spreading some awesomeness around Birmingham — First recipient of a $1000 grant from the Awesome Foundation – Birmingham Chapter – Team Alabama Solar Decathlon SURVIV(AL) House

“BE Calm and BE AWESOME” $1000 at a time – The Awesome Foundation Birmingham Chapter

Solar-powered UAB Surviv(AL) house to compete in Solar Decathlon 2017

Spreading awesomeness throughout the Magic City

The local Birmingham chapter of the Awesome Foundation was established by Dionne Mahaffey and Max Rykov.

The Awesome Foundation is a global community advancing the interest of awesome in the universe, $1000 at a time. Each fully autonomous chapter supports awesome projects through micro-grants, usually given out monthly. These micro-grants, $1000 or the local equivalent, come out of pockets of the chapter’s “trustees” and are given on a no-strings-attached basis to people and groups working on awesome projects.