Melbourne
Five Oh Five
By Maya Lakerink August 2023
Rethink Recycling Lid Sorting Program
By Kym O'Shannassy July 2023
Sabbatical Gallery This is Not a Toy Store
By Kay-Lynn Cavanagh June 2023
Refugee & Friends Market
By Marjorie Tenchavez May 2023
Igniting a Passion for STEM in Brunswick!
By Lillian Smith April 2023
A hub for Mums of the Hills
By Mums of the Hills (Madeleine Coyle) March 2023
Love (Let Our Voices Echo)
By Emmanuel Deng February 2023
Come and play!
By Engela van der Klashorst January 2023
Keeping Collingwood Cows Happy !
By Dale Jobson December 2022
Beacon Project
By Andrew December 2022
Paddling to the Asian Championships
By Racheal Blake October 2022An utterly fabulous wall mural by Monica Lazzari
By Kirsten Matthews October 2022
Karuna Women's Sewing Project
By Nathan Buckley September 2022
Custom-Made Laryngoscopes for Australian Mammals
By Girius Antanaitis August 2022
Be Kind Roller Skates
By Roz Slade July 2022
UV Photobooth
By Grace Tang July 2022
Netball Uniforms
By Kelly Fergie June 2022Moonee Valley Repair Cafe
By Charlie Nancarrow May 2022
The Aus Paraclimbing Team's World Cup Journey
By Sarah Larcombe April 2022
Pixellated the Game
By Zahraa Al Zubaydi March 2022
Snowglobe LGBTQIA+ Support Services AI Chatbot
By Jessica Sutherland February 2022
GINA App
By Leah Tassios January 2022A STAGE for our performers
By Breanne Mills November 2021
Fungi Solutions
By Amanda Morgan October 2021
Dallas Disco Soup
By Carolyn Webster September 2021
SS Stallions Netball Club Uniforms
By Jacki Tut August 2021Dinosaurs can skate with Vandal
By Tricia Van Der-Kuyp June 2021
Techno-Romance
By Holly Block May 2021
Off Lead - web series
By Lauren Colosimo April 2021
Ectodermal dysplasia camp
By Emma March 2021
Wheelie Awesome Waminda
By Waminda Community House February 2021
Consent Workshops for Low Socioeconomic Schools
By Kishan Pathak January 2021
Spill the Chai: Melbourne Edition
By Dilpreet Taggar November 2020
Big Group Hug
By Donna De Bortoli October 2020
Schizy Speaks
By Heidi Everett September 2020
Lockdown Legends
By Preethi Vergis August 2020
Buy Bla(c)k
By jessica ankomah July 2020
Guru Nanak's Free Community Kitchen & Food Pantry
By Gurvinder Singh Madaan June 2020
Birds of Prey
By Amber Steele May 2020
Avenel's Awesome Cubby House!
By Avenel Kindergarten (Emma Larsen) April 2020
The Waminda Wall
By Janet Symes March 2020
Encompassible: Melbourne Youth Peer Mentoring
By Lily Wu February 2020
Mental Health Careres Respite Day
By Rebecca Martindale January 2020
Dishwasher for foodbank volunteers
By Carol Franceschi November 2019My Very Cool Project For Geography
By Angus Paterson October 2019
Wheels for Dancing
By Jacqi Spencer September 2019
Fifth Element Academy: Math + Hip Hop
By Preethi Vergis August 2019
'I AM' art exhibition
By Lenka Brazda July 2019Now You See Us
By Lee Cohen June 2019
Reaching for Gold
By Sam Cartledge May 2019
Children of Cherbourg
By John harding February 2019
Day Hospice guest bus pick up
By Kerry Dmytrenko February 2019Kensington Social Inclusion Week Lunch
By Carolyn Webster August 2018
The arts as a therapy in stroke recovery
By Carly Stephens August 2018ANIKA
By Perveen Maan May 2018
Wheelie Good Greenhouse
By Morgan Koegel March 2018
Let's read
By Andrew Kay February 2018
Kids' Urban Dreaming
By Clare Walton February 2018
Teddy Bears Picnic
By Georgia Jacobs & Fartun Abdi November 2017An awesome VIP Day for Melbourne's homeless
By Marcus Crook November 2017
Equal Access to Healthcare for Transgender People
By Tina Shaw September 2017
Dinosaur- Library Takeover: Kids change the world!
By Erin Wicking September 2017
The Strong Sunflower book
By Writing Through Fences - Janet Galbraith & Rose Turtle Ertler July 2017
Gravity Initiative
By Emily Serle June 2017
Kitestring
By Ryan Hubbard April 2017
Pay A sack Forward
By Kunti Benson March 2017
Friendship Dog Foundation
By Hari Jeevakumar February 2017
Audio Description in Victoria
By Will McRostie January 2017
Greening Kensington’s Industrial Streets
By Loretta Curtin November 2016Pihuru Community Sanitation Project
By Silas Wagatora October 2016
The Ultimate Pop Up Junkyard Playground
By Clare Walton September 2016
Complimentary Caravan
By Rose Turtle Ertler August 2016
Pumped for Parole
By Fiona Grinwald July 2016
Mechanical Youth
By Shane Elmore May 2016
The Day Dream Program
By Madeleine Buchner April 2016
The Wonder Woman Bootcamp
By Olivia Shelton March 2016
Community Workshop: On The Move
By Margaux Hayes January 2016Unique walking tours of Melbourne
By Joanne Jenkins December 2015
Be. Bangles - Inspirational bangles for women
By Chantelle Baxter October 2015
The Tasmanian Tree Project
By Jennifer Sanger September 2015
Happy Hubbub
By Erin Richards August 2015
Instagran
By Kyle Vermeulen August 2015
PROJECT HONEYCOMB
By Christopher Kowalski July 2015
Sunshine Children's Garden
By Joyce Watts / Jo Skaldzien June 2015
Up-skilling at Norm Community Workshop
By margaux hayes May 2015
The Welcome Dinner Project Victoria
By Meagan Williams April 2015
The Man Cave
By Hunter Johnson April 2015
Long Johns Condoms
By Brad Zadow April 2015
Second Star - Mermaid Bar
By Brianna Lund April 2015
Australian Ichthyosis Meet
By Carly Findlay January 2015
Wearable Arts Experience - From Concept to catwalk
By Alison Jones November 2014The Melbourne Hidden Gift
By Hidden Gift Melbourne October 2014
Long Street Coffee Training Pop-up
By Jane Marx September 2014PointsThing
By Jacob Kemsley August 2014
Our World Our Vision
By Atalanti Dionysus August 2014TEAM OF LIFE
By KAGE (Submitted by Simone Schinkel - General Manager and Producer at KAGE) June 2014
Bosom Buddies
By Anna Kaplan May 2014
Electrical Wiring Pilot Program for Women in Nepal
By Briony Mackenzie May 2014
EDDIES BACKPACKS
By DARRELL J CRUSE April 2014
Seen & Heard Film Festival - Melbourne
By Mia Falstein-Rush February 2014
National Boat Day
By Michael Roper December 2013
Traveling Gypsy for Disabled
By Robert Willi Fantom October 2013Growstuff
By Alex Bayley September 2013
Mini Free Library
By Lisa D'Onofrio September 2013
The Grantmaker Jukebox: Music that makes new grant
By Rachael Byrnes February 2013
PetHomeStay Videos - Sharing the Care of Pets!
By Tom LeGrice December 2012
ideservetoo
By Juste Angelo Compaore November 2012
Beerend - It's like a bookend for your beer
By Zac Martin November 2012
Good Cycles
By luke wright October 2012
All Of The Numbers
By Kealey Nutt - @kealey September 2012
Do it on the Roof
By Dr Shelley Meagher August 2012
Handmade Dog Coats & Vests for Pounds and Rescues.
By Tania Quinlan August 2012
The World's First Comfort Zone Calculator
By Marcus Taylor August 2012
Freelove Magazine Melbourne
By Scott Ashby June 2012
Roll-Up Bike Valet for Park(ing) Day 2012
By Joyce Watts May 2012
The Ownership Project
By The Ownership Project May 2012Poo Power!
By Duncan Chew April 2012
httpmote
By Mitch Denny April 2012
Do It In a Dress
By Chantelle July 2011
Mini Macaron Melbourne Campaign
By Linda Kowalski May 2011
Trams + Music = Tram Sessions
By Nick Wallberg March 2011
Melbourne City Rooftop Honey
By Vanessa Kwiatkowski January 2011
About Us
Making our world more awesome $1,000 at a time.
Overview
Applications are open to all awesome projects in the greater Melbourne area. We are an active chapter which awards a $1,000 grant on the last Tuesday of each month (submissions close 12pm on the Sunday prior).
The Melbourne chapter consists of 10 board members who meet each month to review every submission. Each board member contributes $100 to the winner's grant. So why should ten strangers give you their money?
Please read the information below to give your application the best chance of success.
We love:
- Exciting and kooky projects.
- Exciting and impactful projects that make Melbourne more aewsome.
- Having a "tipping point" of $1000 or less and our grant is what's needed to make it happen.
- Ideas that will be a catalyst to kick-start something bigger.
- When you clearly explain where the money will be spent (Hint: "marketing" or "website" is not specific enough).
- When your story pulls on our heart strings.
- When you include the word "dinosaur" at the beginning of your application to show us you can follow instructions.
- Brief pitches with a weblink and one really good photo.
- When you follow us on social media and help us celebrate awsome projects by linking, commenting on and sharing some of our posts.
- Instagram, Facebook, Twitter / X
We are not so keen on:
- Paying for operating or personal expenses.
- Funding your book, video, blog, website, social media, advertising, etc.
- Giving money to a people who earn a lot more money than we do. We're not rich. We're teachers, retirees, and students.
- Funding projects for an organisation that already has revenues and/or grants of more than $8000 in the past year.
- Long pitches.
- Funding non-Melbourne area projects. If you are from another area, sorry, try your local chapter.
- Grant applications where the applicant has not read or followed this page of guidelines.
After you submit
- Winners will be emailed within 3 business days of the last Tuesday of each month.
- Wheny our project has been completed and the impact is clear, you will send us a short write-up (75-100 words) and photos demonstrating the impact and success of the project, for sharing on this website and social media.
- Money will only be transferred to Australian bank accounts. If you are from overseas, sorry, try your local Awesome Foundation.
- You are welcome to resubmit an application for the same (or a different) project in 3 months.
- If you have won a grant, please wait 12 months before applying again.