Make Food More Awesome

Awesome Food, the Food Chapter of the Awesome Foundation for the Arts and Sciences wants to help you pull off your ideas for improving our current food system or changing the way we think about food. We interpret food in its broadest possible way so use your imagination!

How will you make food more awesome? Share your awesome idea involving food, be it urban farming, food truck, recipe collects, pop-up cafes, or health. The more inventive the better!

Do you have a food truck that runs on solar power? Have you been building a new local food system to connect farmers with those who need access to fresh healthy foods most? Are you spreading the word that food stamps can be used to buy seeds and food-producing plants?

Submit your awesome food idea from July 23 to August 22 (noon Pacific Time). Our judges will select which applicants will pass to the voting round. From August 23 to September 6, we’ll open it up to public voting. Rally your colleagues and friends to get behind your effort and join the public in selecting the winner.

The top-voted idea will win a tour of the Food Network and lunch with an Awesome Trustee. All submissions with 50 votes or more will advance to the final round of judging by Awesome Food’s Trustees for a chance to win a $1,000 grant.

Connect with this challenge on Twitter at @GOODmkr and @awesomefood.

Submission tips:

• Include a photo or video that represents your idea. Photos should be in JPG, PNG, or GIF format, at least 570 × 345 pixels and no larger than 10MB. To include a video, use a YouTube URL.
• Describe your project, and how you would use the $1,000 grant.
• Email us with any questions at maker@goodinc.com.

• This Challenge is open for submissions from July 23 to August 22 (noon Pacific Time). Only US-based organizations and individuals are eligible apply. Applicants must be 18 years of age or older.
• Submitted projects must be able to be activated with $1,000 within 6 months of receiving the grant. Let us know how you’re going to put this money to work!
• Projects will be featured on this page and public voting will be open from August 23 to September 6 (noon Pacific Time).
• The project with the most votes will win a tour of the Food Network and lunch with an Awesome Trustee.
• All projects with over 50 votes will make it to the final round of judging by the Awesome Food Trustees for a chance to win $1,000.
• In order to vote, log in with your GOOD account. If you don’t have a GOOD account, it’s free to join. All you need is an email address or a Facebook account to register. You will be emailed a link that you need to click in order to validate your address.
• Read all the rules.