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August Awesome Fellow
Our August grant goes to Malorie Bertrand and Maureen Dickson of Fashion on Display, a version of the Amazing Race if Stella McCartney and Karl Lagerfeld were competing with eccentric artists and shop-a-holics. It’s a ...
July Awesome Fellow
July’s Awesome grant goes to Love the Label, a student-led campaign based at Nipissing University in North Bay, ON, promoting a greater awareness of the ingredients found in cosmetics and other personal care products. In ...
June Awesome Fellow
The grant for June goes to Christopher Redmond, the co-founder of a not-for-profit school in East Africa called the Burundi Film Center (BFC). The project was started in 2007 with a small group of volunteer ...
May Awesome Fellow
Our grant for this month goes to Kim Cooper, the team manager of the Ottawa Valley Search and Rescue Dog Association (OVSARDA), a non profit organization staffed by volunteers who train and handle dogs in ...
New Trustees
We are estatically happy to welcome aboard two brand spanking new trustees to Awesome Ottawa! Here’s a bit about them: Suzan Hill founded Iconise Inc. a small design company located in Ottawa committed to providing ...
More detail on 100 Strangers Project
In our last blog post we talked about Kym’s awesome project, the 100 Strangers Project which she had been working on for months now. I got a chance to ask the talented writer and photographer ...
100 Strangers Project
The first winner of an Awesome Ottawa grant in 2011 was Kym for her 100 Strangers Project. Over the past year Kym has met, talked to, and photographed many people. Her goal is to photograph ...