It has been a very busy week in Ann Arbor. (A4) Ann Arbor Awesome Foundation has been giving local projects $1,000 no-string-attached micro-grants, which is pretty awesome. (A4) Baby Zane, a baby chimpanzee at the Detroit Zoo, finally has an adoptive mother. The Ann Arbor Art Center will have various workshops for kids, teens and adults throughout July. All About Ann Arbor is powered by ClickOnDetroit/WDIV.

Since 2011, the Ann Arbor Awesome Foundation has been handing out no-strings-attached micro-grants to help fund projects in and around Washtenaw County. A chapter of the Awesome Foundation, a Boston-based micro-philanthropic organization, Ann Arbor Awesome Foundation has given out almost 100 monthly grants of $1,000 powered by its trustees. The whole concept is designed to be as low-hassle and as no-strings-attached as possible, said Patrick Dunn, dean of the Ann Arbor Awesome Foundation. While most grant applications in recent months have been related to the pandemic, Dunn said the Ann Arbor Awesome Foundation receives applications from a broad range of projects. We would love to make it one of the 12 grants that we give out every year, potentially.Find more information about previous Ann Arbor Awesome Foundation grantee projects here.