Austin, TX
Christmas Joy for Kids
By Jennifer Jones, Austin Mutual Aid December 2024Free Book Fairs for Disadvantaged Kids
By Brooke Terry September 2024Adaptive Gardening Equipment for AISD Students
By Amy Bartos August 2024Empowering Afghan Women Refugees through Literacy
By Chichi Armstrong July 2024Shea Butter Babies:Celebrating Queer Black Artists
By Kitty McLeod June 2024Composting for a Soil-Rich Farming Future
By Hayley Wood February 2024Suicide Prevention Awareness & Knowledge in ASL
By Allysa Dittmar January 2024Awesome Tummies of North Austin
By Tom Cottar October 2023Editing equipment for Elementary School Newscast
By Candi Johnson August 2023Street Medics Austin
By Matthew Blaney July 2023Expansion of LGBTQIA+ Library for Austin's Youth
By Christopher Dowling-Magill June 2023Touch the Art: An Interactive Art Exhibition
By Natalie Earhart April 2023Creating Gifted Programs that Represent Austin
By Shalelia Dillard March 2023Yellow Bike Project
By Scott Menzies November 2022"Yamel Cucuy" by Glass Half Full Theatre
By Caroline Reck July 2022Swing Equality for the Differently-Abled
By Dr. Jacqueline Abernathy, MSSW, Ph.D., May 2022A Full Life for folks with IDD
By Joseph Potts February 2022Equal Access to Abortion Care in Central Texas
By The Bridge Collective December 2021Open Call: Showtune Open Mic Night
By Susan Johnston Taylor November 2021Black and Brown Academics and Mentorship
By Esther Nnali October 2021Summer Break Theatre
By Maggie Bell (Meador) June 2021AAAFF Centerpiece Film Drive-In Live Performance
By Hanna Huang April 2021Humanize Austin
By Dusty Monroe February 2021Foundation Communities Holiday Assistance Program
By Foundation Communities December 2020S.T.R.I.V.E. with Women's Storybook Project
By Jill Gonzalez November 2020Enjambment, the zine
By Spencer Dunkerley-Offor, Jeremy Gatson, Julian Perkins, Danny Martin & Melodi Ramirez October 2020Smash Dysphoria
By E. Victoria August 2020COVID-19 Hunger Relief
By Central Texas Food Bank April 2020ATX Interfaces: a radically inclusive art showcase
By KB February 2020Linder Elementary Parenting Engagement Theater
By Maria Hanley December 2019Let's Make our Mariachi Awesome
By Diana Manzo November 2019East Austin Studio Tour: Art Roller Coaster
By Kami T Wilt September 2019Giving Austin Labor Support
By Morgan Miles July 2019Outsiders Anonymous
By Adam Holt June 2019First Annual Short Play Festival
By Simone Alexander, New Manifest Theatre April 2019SAGE Studio Spring Art Show
By Katie Stahl March 2019Transgender Day of Visibility
By Drew Riley February 2019Write! Austin
By ND McCray January 2019The Tiny Banger
By Alice Stanley December 2018Language Access for Christopher House
By Hospice Austin November 2018Indigenous Peoples Day: A Decolonial Celebration
By ALBERTO MEJIA October 2018We Can See Through Time
By Rachel Wolfson Smith September 2018The Texas Justice Initiative
By Eva Ruth Moravec July 2018Home Street Music
By Vanessa Lively June 2018Austin Abortion Access Hackathon
By Emily Loen May 2018LGBTQIA+ Youth Summit for Austin ISD
By Max Casero, Communities in Schools April 2018Civics 101: Your Guide To A Functional Democracy
By Amy Stansbury January 2018Making It at the Downs-Jones Library
By Katrina Ashton at Huston-Tillotson University December 2017Family Holiday Superbowl
By Kristin Davidson & Williamson County Juvenile Services November 2017Interwoven: A Community Weaving Project
By Melissa Knight September 2017Gender Unbound
By Drew Riley August 2017Into the Wilds: A Portrait Project
By Jeanette Nevarez July 2017TWENTYEIGHT: a new play
By Katherine Wilkinson June 2017A New Kiln, and a Fresh Start
By Adam Yoo May 2017The Dobie Middle School Family Resource Center
By Jose Carrasco April 2017A Girl Named Sue: world premiere
By Color Arc Productions February 2017Wild Places
By Joanna Garner January 2017Austin Cares Homeless Initiative
By Sarah Ellis & Lauren Seiss December 2016Successful Smiles of Texas
By Alethea Flores November 2016Plastic Planet Animated PSA
By Calder Kamin October 201610th Annual KreweDCM Halloween Parade
By Christopher McMillan September 2016Austin Archives Bazaar 2016
By Kristy Sorensen July 2016arcade of anything
By JUEGOS RANCHEROS June 2016Party World Rasslin'
By Timothy Faust May 2016Performance-In-A-Box: Storytelling for Seniors
By Maggie Gallant & CASACA April 2016CaveCast: Stories from Austin High Schoolers
By Katie Angermeier Haab & Austin Bat Cave March 2016Ravaan Persian Dance Company
By Geeti Mahajan February 2016Shakespeare: REPRESENT
By Shrewd Productions January 2016Our Taco House Co-op
By Raquel Banda & Shirley Trevino December 2015RE Source
By Forklift Danceworks November 2015Adventure Therapy for Homeless Families
By Annette Pelletier October 2015CLAWstin: Austin Collective of Lady Arm Wrestlers
By Amanda Soisson September 2015Anthropos All-Stars CD Project
By Dylan Jones, Anthropos Arts July 2015Circus of Hope
By Kenneth Pierce June 2015The Quality or Condition
By Lauren Gurgiolo, Backstop Art Collective May 2015Freehand Arts Project: Bringing the creative arts to those behind bars
By Kelsey Shipman, The Freehand Arts Project April 2015Ballenarca: The Whale Ark
By Cheraya Esters March 2015RE/CONNECT: Examining intimacy in a digital age
By Kristen Weller February 2015BLXPLTN
By Katherine Quinones January 2015The Gay Wax Museum
By Silky Shoemaker December 2014Inside Books Project: promoting literacy for prisoners
By Jane Chamberlain, Inside Books Project November 2014Bilingual books for kids, by kids
By Jennifer Siviter October 2014The Krewe DCM Halloween Parade
By Krewe DCM & HONK!TX September 2014KOOP: Bringing the power of radio to the people
By KOOP 91.7 FM August 2014Spaces for reflection at Austin's green cemetery
By Ellen MacDonald July 2014HOPE Outdoor Gallery: Showcasing Austin street art
By Andi Scull Cheatham, HOPE Outdoor Gallery June 2014Third Coast Visions: Mobile Geodesic Dome Gallery
By Chancellor Roberts, Third Coast Visions Art Collective May 2014Spoiler Alert: This Is How My Life Ends
By Jay Byrd April 2014SKAM mural rehab: Preserving a piece of history
By Lindsay Palmer, Creative Action March 2014Old Books for New Teachers
By Stephanie Noll February 2014Elementary Science Discovery
By Amy Quartaro January 2014The Texas Observer: Reaching Millions
By Piper Nelson December 2013Legends for Youth baseball clinic for kids with disabilities
By John Lorek November 2013Attendance Records: Inspiring Austin's next generation of musicians
By Jenna Carrens, Attendance Records October 2013Citizen Node
By Amy Cavender August 2013A Dance to Remember
By Maggie Gallant of CASACA July 2013Powering a Robot with a Control Moment Gyroscope
By Joshua Stricker and Marek Travnikar June 2013Queerbomb
By Beth Schindler May 2013Performing Possibilities: Life after Prison
By Katherine Craft, Conspire Theatre April 2013Have A Ball
By Jackie Garrett March 2013Environmental Remediation Thru Hydrilla Harvesting
By Michael Jochum February 2013Housewarming Gifts for the Previously Homeless
By Bryce Yeazell January 2013Cooking Up English
By Casey Smith December 2012HONK!TX: Festival of Community Street Bands
By HONK!TX November 2012Austin Sea Veggies
By Lewis Weil October 2012Color Squad: Youth transforming public spaces
By Lindsay Palmer September 2012Burnet-Ohlen Treescape
By Steven Zettner August 2012Urban Nature. Urban Kids.
By Bernadette Noll July 2012Astronomy for underserved populations
By Amy Jackson June 2012Slow Cooking for a Fast Food World
By Beth Rowan May 2012Children of Bagbanistan
By Lenell Ripley April 2012The Pay Phone Revival Project
By Bridget Quinn March 2012About Us
We are the Austin, Texas chapter of the Awesome Foundation!
If you have an idea that could help keep Austin awesome, we hope you'll apply for one of our $1000 micro-grants. What does "awesome" mean, you ask? That's something we purposely leave up to your imagination. From a pop-up recreation of the Indiana Jones boulder scene to meat-filled zebra pinatas, if you can dream it, the Awesome Foundation would like to help you do it! Note: If your project is time-sensitive, we strongly recommend you apply at least 90 days in advance of when funds are needed.
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