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Instruments for Student Musicians!

By Alexandra Grace February 2023

New Year New Me

By Justine Baez February 2023

Give a treat to a Senior!

By Rosalie Nicastro January 2023

The Fisherman: Life in a Seaside City

By Meghan Kyne December 2022

Sounds of Gloucester

By Casey Keenan November 2022

Responding to Change Together

By Courtney Cole October 2022

Youth Music @ MAGMA

By Movement Arts Gloucester MA (MAGMA) September 2022

The Workers' Mural at the Cape Ann Chamber

By Sal Zerilli September 2022

GreasyPole Shrine

By Eric Spear August 2022

Junie Bird's Club House

By Simone Salvo July 2022

Free Testing Event

By Justine Baez / ONESTOP June 2022

The Doryman's Mural

By Sal Zerilli June 2022

Love Grows

By Susan Wood May 2022

GHS Theater Program Revamps the Green Room!

By Lexi Thomas and Malia Andrews April 2022

The Greasy Pole Mobile Game

By Isaac Aiello March 2022

Restoration of the “Watermark”

By Alan Lewis Jr. February 2022

Self care for Gloucester school nurses

By Hannah Fonti January 2022

Holiday fund for GHS ESL families

By Lisa Lemont December 2021

New Old Boat for Sail GHS

By Hilary Frye November 2021

Addressing Racism

By Rona Tyndall November 2021

Matriarch

By Ann-Marie Ciaraldi November 2021

Water bottles for all

By Rosa Goulart October 2021

Reminiscences of Aunt Tot

By elizabeth enfield September 2021

Wearable Weeds

By Maia Mattson September 2021

The Clean Earth Project-Gloucester

By Lia Sophia Numerosi August 2021

Supporting the Gloucester Boxing Club

By Crystal Sawyer July 2021

Oncology Colorology

By Kassidy Klopotoski and Hannah Olson June 2021

Incentive for SNAP participants

By Cape Ann Farmers Market (CAFM) May 2021

ONESTOP Harm Reduction Center/NSHP

By Kristin Doneski April 2021

Not all who wander are lost

By DEBORA TAYLOR March 2021

The Taming of the Shrew

By Lily Narbonne March 2021

Project Elm

By Sal Zerilli March 2021

Kops n Kids

By Lieutenant Jeremiah Nicastro February 2021

Cape ann restaurant workers fund

By Lisa Lemont February 2021

Meat and Sweet Foods Feeds the People

By Doug Keiles January 2021

"Pets" for Dementia Patients

By Susan C Maza December 2020

Sandy's Stocking Stuffers

By Allea Harrington November 2020

Gloucester 400 Stories Project

By Laura M. Alberghini Ventimiglia October 2020

Cape Ann Foster Closet

By Olivia Rodgers September 2020

Black Lives Matter banners

By Mila Barry August 2020

Gerald Taves Fund

By MELISSA E. LEZYNSKI July 2020

SOS: Support Our Students

By Amy Kamm July 2020

Gloucester Rainworks Project

By Sophie Zerilli June 2020

The Fish Workers Mural

By Sal Zerilli June 2020

Nurse helping the homeless

By Deb Taylor May 2020

WE are ALL in this TOGETHER

By Kristin Michel April 2020

The Open Door -- pandemic response

By Sal Zerilli March 2020

The Cornerstone Creative

By Adam Quinn February 2020

Big Mike's Bikes- Repair and Redistribute Project

By Michael Rogers January 2020

Little Shack Restoration and Pocket Museum

By Ralph Pisaturo December 2019

"Bling Fling" Free Prom Dress Give-Away

By Amy Prichard November 2019

Magnolia Community Farmers Market

By Alana Horne November 2019

NSHP's 30th Anniversary: Bringing the Quilt Home

By Susan Gould Coviello October 2019

Dogtown Writers Festival Student Scholarships

By Eileen Whyte Springer September 2019

Lighting for the Future

By Jessica Ruggles August 2019

Unsung Hero Award Winner: Jacob Belcher

By Sal Zerilli August 2019

Free Book Night at The Open Door Family Supper

By JoAnne McDonough July 2019

Cape Ann Community Boating

By Guy Fiero June 2019

Introduction to net mending class

By Joseph Sanfilippo May 2019

SAGA Nights

By Amy Kamm, LICSW, SAC April 2019

Gambrel Roofed Cottages: Homes of the fishermen

By Prudence Fish and William Remsen March 2019

McPherson Walkway Gardens

By Carol Terrell March 2019

Solar Panels

By deston cauthers January 2019

Awesome Backstage

By Malia Andrews January 2019

Soles for Souls

By Marietta Kamin December 2018

Beau Plastics

By Leah Hunter and Lily Eynon November 2018

Keep Science Education Wild and Curious

By JESSICA KAGLE October 2018

Wildlife supplies for Cape Ann Wildlife

By Jodi Swenson September 2018

3rd Annual Pay-It-Forward Pink Envelope Initiative

By Salvatore Zerilli August 2018

Period Partners

By Abbie Lundberg July 2018

Gloucester High School Transition Team

By Michael Murphy June 2018

Beautify Lincoln Park

By Lincoln Park Gardeners June 2018

People Against Litter (PAL)

By Judy Rose June 2018

Handicapped accessible swing

By Julie Greer, M.Ed and Lauren Turenne, M.Ed April 2018

Beeman School After School Floor Hockey Program

By Ella Tucker March 2018

Unsung Hero Award Winner: Sharon Lowe

By Sal Zerilli February 2018

Wellspring Closet

By Lisa Robinson January 2018

Technology for art

By Logan Strangman December 2017

OMTV Merchandise

By Malia Andrews and April Smith December 2017

Positivity O'Maley 2.0

By Kyia Karvelas and Alyssa Brown December 2017

Clark's Cemetery Supplies

By Sandy Barry December 2017

When the Lee Rail Was a Stranger.

By J.P. Boudreau October 2017

What Can I Do? Young Voices for Positive Change!

By Jessica Linquata September 2017

2nd Annual Pay-It-Forward Pink Envelope Initiative

By Salvatore Zerilli July 2017

Yoga in 12 Step Recovery

By Megan Ghirardi July 2017

Cape Ann Maritime Partnership

By Zachary Thomas June 2017

Binoculars for gear loaning library and programs

By Jessica Kagle May 2017

VR Classroom

By Bevan Worell April 2017

Anchor Program - Stress Reduction

By David Coleman April 2017

Real Deal Gourmet Stuffed Clams

By Kat Noyes March 2017

Salt Marsh Farm Agroforestry Project

By Edgar Foudray February 2017

Gloucester's Civil War coat display case

By Charles and George January 2017

Positivity Messages O'Maley

By Keyarah Harris, Kyia Karvelas, Yasmim Da Silva December 2016

Soccer O'Maley Style

By Peter Giordano, Jason Earl December 2016

Gloucester Boxing Club

By Doug Ryan November 2016

Health and Harmony: Music Therapy at Grace Center

By Grace Center, Inc. October 2016

Ghosts of Hammond Castle: Echoes From The Deep!

By Henry∞Cameron Allen September 2016

GHS/RHS Reviving Girls Hockey

By Beth Zerilli August 2016

Pay It Forward Pink Envelope Initiative

By Sal Zerilli July 2016

Little River Little Free Library

By Jennifer A. Holmgren June 2016

"Gloucester Speaks"

By shep abbott May 2016

Preserving Historic Gloucester Garb

By Mary Ellen Lepionka for the Annisquam Historical Society April 2016

Spring car maintenance for veterans/ the elderly

By Jack Porter / auto shop students March 2016

Library Commons Renovations

By Lexi Ciolino, Isaac da Silva, Jarrod Martin and Chrissy Nugent March 2016

Gloucester Sea Cadets

By Robert Pallazolla February 2016

Fiesta People's Mural

By Susan Waller January 2016

Composting at O'Maley Innovation Middle School

By Lucy Garberg & Lila Olson December 2015

Class Clowns

By Roger Davis December 2015

Cape Ann Youth Hockey Challenger Program

By Michael English November 2015

Cape Ann WWII Veterans Portrait Project

By Jason Grow October 2015

Discover Dogtown - The App to Have in Dogtown

By Mark Carlotto September 2015

First Parish Burial Ground

By crystal daley August 2015

Colorful Characters of Gloucester's Early Days

By Jay DiPrima July 2015

O'maley Butterfly garden

By Willa Brosnihan, Emma Duckworth, Kelsey Lowthers May 2015

Bicycle Generator

By Cole Cunningham, Joseph Ciarametaro, Owen Hardy May 2015

Beneficial Art Program

By The Grace Center, Inc. May 2015

Ma $ pa's Pickles

By Myron Lapine April 2015

Igniting Environmental Action in Gloucester

By Gloucster High School Environmental Club (James Cook, advisor) March 2015

Clean-up & Maintainance of Magnolia Public Parks

By Elizabeth Cannon February 2015

Raising Our Voices

By Amanda Cook, Gloucester Writers Center January 2015

Gloucester History Sharing Project

By Beth Welin December 2014

St Vincent de Paul of Cape Ann

By Annette Kennedy November 2014

Bridge from School to Workplace

By Nancy Goodman October 2014

Mattos Field Rehabilitation

By Patti Amaral September 2014

TAG Fashion Program

By The Hive's Teen Artist Guild August 2014

Private Freedom

By Robert Pallazolla July 2014

The Man Who Photographed the Man at the Wheel

By Philip Storey June 2014

The Phyllis A

By Bill Cox May 2014

Judith Sargent Murray Comes Alive!

By Henry Allen's North Shore Folklore Theatre Company April 2014

The Cape Ann Social Club

By Yvonne Burke March 2014

Backyard Growers School Salad Days!

By Lara Lepionka February 2014

Giant Chess Gloucester!

By Chris Frontiero January 2014

Lights, Camera, Nature Gloucester Spring Session

By Jessica Kagle December 2013

Art Haven Lobster Trap Christmas Tree

By Isabel Pett November 2013

Glosta Lobsta

By Scott Swicker and Camron Adibi October 2013

About Us

An award winning chapter of the Awesome Foundation, Awesome Gloucester awards $1000 micro-grants every month. All of our grants are given in cash with no strings attached.

We encourage and support projects intended to add Awesomeness to Gloucester in any of the following areas: (1) innovation in maritime related industry and economy, (2) preservation of maritime heritage and culture, and (3) community togetherness and appreciation.

Our deadline for monthly proposals is the LAST DAY of each month. We then invite finalists to pitch their ideas on the LAST Thursday of each month at The Gloucester House Restaurant, the official home of Awesome Gloucester Pitch Nights.

Check out our chapter video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2M2ZCAbT3kg&feature=youtu.be