Pittsburgh, PA
Pennwood Portraits
By Parker Donaldson April 2024String Quartet in a Historic Artistic Church
By Ryan McMasters March 2024Healing with Nature Mosaic Project
By Susan Spangler February 20242k2c Kids Can Create - Tuft Together
By Kiarra Little January 2024PGH SK8 Collaborative Portable Neighborhood Rink
By Catlyn Brooke December 2023Taarifa Readers and Storytellers
By Cynthia Battle November 2023KFIVE Tutoring and KOLLECTIVE
By KFIVE October 2023TOYZSTEAM and the DAH-VARSITY SCHOLARS
By Damola Idowu September 2023Video Art Pop-up!
By Carolina Alamilla August 202340 Musicians Perform Live with 5 DJs
By Joe Maggiore July 2023Good Enough Comedy
By Shannon Norman June 2023All-Trans Production of Jesus Christ Superstar
By Alec Miller May 2023Black Nurse Network Summer Service Project
By Kylie Stores April 2023Access to Making Program (AMP) Scholarships
By Amber Epps March 2023Friendship Park Asphalt Art Project
By Sam Spearing February 2023Kardelens Rug Project
By Kirsten Ervin January 2023KIN
By JADED PGH December 2022Spring 2023 - Collegiate Musical
By Jeramie Welch November 2022The Remembering Room
By Amanda Filippelli October 2022No Guns Allowed
By Bethany Wells September 2022HAP Hive
By Natalie Ahwesh, Executive Director, HAP August 2022Modern Gargoyle Project
By Caroline "Heady" Mead July 2022Reimagined Recycling
By Ashley McFarland June 2022Carrick Community Pavilion
By Pete Spynda June 2022Act Up
By Nola Mims June 2022Youth Shakespeare Society of Pittsburgh
By Theo Fantozzi May 2022Spark/Pride 2022
By Seth Dubin April 2022Yinz Run Club Presents: "RACE TO" Series
By Dan Lampmann March 2022The Inklings Book Co-op
By Anita Arguello February 2022Black Hair Equity at the MDH Low Barrier Shelter
By Aubrey Plesh January 2022Emergency Essentials for Single Mothers
By Ray Nell Jones December 2021The Mobile Thriving Respite
By Dr. Robert McInerney October 2021Looking Glass
By Adrian Jones September 2021Pittsburgh Garbage Olympics
By Lena Andrews August 2021City Visions
By Thomas Van Hout July 2021Painting Main
By Sophia Fang June 2021Wilkinsburg Library's Library of Things
By Anna Newborg May 2021Baby Bison Days Charity Powwow
By Karen Sticht April 2021Joy Riders Pittsburgh
By Dianne Stuckman and Margarita Halasowski March 2021Soil Sisters Plant Nursery
By Raynise Kelly February 2021Inwood Mural Proposal
By Ada Griffin January 2021Bodega Babies
By Steven Montinar December 2020Collaborative Haiku Billboards: The Rona Edition
By staci backauskas November 2020Braddock Community Conservation Corp
By Robert Ketcham October 2020Caileigh Lynn McDowell Pop-Up! Voter Registration
By Lynn M. Banaszak September 2020Empty Space Project
By Cat Burton August 2020Grace Space
By Julia Erickson June 2020Bolly Boutique - nonprofit to reduce textile waste
By Shivani Gandhi May 2020Vintage Computers in the Digital Age
By Autumn Walker April 2020Pittsbubble!
By Taylor Tabb March 2020The Mirage
By Jessica Kusten February 2020Community Repair Clinics
By Shane Richardson January 2020Pittsburgh Jail Education Program Leadership Train
By Petey Greene Program December 2019Awesome Community Baby Shower!
By Kaillyn Soros November 2019Suicide Prevention Training
By Shawn Seguin October 2019BTBSN After School Program
By Dominic Harris October 2019VoiceGivers Choir
By Deb Sadowski September 2019Treecup Tea
By Mark Sotomayor September 2019November 9, 2016 (One Thousand Cranes)
By Brent Nakamoto August 2019Pittsburgh Bereavement Doulas
By Heather Bradley July 2019brunchaus
By Queerling Collective June 2019Let's Go Fishing
By Spencer Simon, Jr. May 2019We All Eat: Neighbors Feeding Neighbors
By Natalie DeiCas April 2019Roadkill Gallery
By Chelsea Schilling February 2019Orchestra Park
By Shane Richardson January 2019Challenge Course for Challenged Lives
By Giulia Lozza Petrucci December 2018Crickets to Betsy! A Farm for Fun & Bugs
By Tobin Seastedt November 2018Veteran Holiday Celebration
By Monica Orluk October 2018SoftSpot
By Marantha Dawkins September 2018Look Who's Here! Carpool Karaoke Edition
By Jennifer Szweda Jordan August 2018The Busnegie Museum of Art
By Suzanne Werder July 2018Giant Puppet Dance Club
By Cheryl Capezzuti July 2018I SHINE Beauty Academy
By Debra Titus June 2018Marshmallow
By Nora Peters May 2018Stories That Heal
By Nicole Campbell April 2018Jumping Jack Theater presents CITYSCAPE
By Claire Sabatine March 2018ReMasterpieces
By Daniel Fullerton Fonner February 2018Sh*t Show, Flush it.
By Randi Stewart January 2018Never Fear Being Different
By Jordon Rooney December 2017girlfx presents: Tea Time
By Ari Norris November 2017Search and Rescue K9 Scent Kits
By Kristi Teklinski October 2017YNGBLKPGH
By Brian R Burley September 2017Patina- The Art of Aging
By Suzanne Werder August 2017Trash Bubbles: A Poetic Exploration of Trash
By Lynn Radford July 2017TEDxYouth@SquirrelHill
By Nadav Gilboa June 2017Free Art PGH
By Ian Jones May 2017Allentown Then & Now
By Ryan Haggerty April 2017Spare Change
By Josh Corcoran March 2017Kenny's
By Demi Kolke February 2017Global Minds
By Peyton Klein January 2017Hope Night-- AKA: Inauguration Night
By Andrea Wetherald December 2016Girls Write Pittsburgh
By Vivian Lee Croft November 2016Boys Build
By Darnell Chambers October 2016Hops On Lots Pittsburgh
By Pete Bell October 2016Project Ignite
By Sara Adkins September 2016Community-Sourced Mixtape Project
By Amos Levy August 2016John Riegert
By Brett Yasko July 2016Traveling Accessible and Integrative Playground
By Ian M. Neumaier June 2016Street Side Karaoke
By Juddson Poeske May 2016Doors Open Pittsburgh
By Bonnie Baxter April 2016The Long Song
By Jennifer N Myers March 2016The Family Garden
By Josh Inklovich February 2016Wanna CEEMI?
By Gil Teixeira January 2016Mobile Dyeing Class by the SCFC
By The Steel City Fiber Collective December 2015Ice cream boat build
By Kevin Heenan November 2015SisterFriend
By Tamara Whiting October 2015H3O/OO3
By Steve Gurysh September 2015Black Girls Do Bike: Pittsburgh
By Monica Godfrey-Garrison August 2015Poetry Houses
By Sarah B. Boyle, Jeff Boyle, Tess Wilson July 2015The Pearl Club University
By Tamasia Johnson June 2015Keep ARTisan Alive
By Meliora Angst May 2015Pittonkatonk Collaborative Workshop/Performance
By Pete Spynda April 2015Busk Street Stage
By Eric Sloss March 201576<100
By Elana Schlenker February 2015Design by Veterans, for Veterans
By Christina Lee Sarson January 2015Pittsburgh's Smallest Jazz Club
By Amy Kline October 2014The Iron Garden Walk
By Joshua Reiman September 2014Diverse Mothering Initiative
By Cindy Mendoza August 2014The Ramble League
By Katie Ford August 2014Mobile Sculpture Workshop
By Andrew Prisbylla July 2014The Global Switchboard
By Brandon Blache-Cohen June 2014Farm Truck Foods
By Michelle Lagree April 2014Art in the Garden
By Carla Garfield/Bandi Schaum Community Garden March 2014Urban RC!
By Keith Reimink February 2014An Orchard for Isaac
By Karen Phillips, VMD January 2014Kiss for Peace!
By Nima Dehghani December 2013The Drop Project
By Ann Payne & Kristen Reynolds November 2013Tip Type in Wilkinsburg: Rudy Lehman's Legacy
By Brandon Boan October 2013PittMesh Wireless Network
By Adam Longwill September 2013Cupcakes & Culture Series
By Jasmine Cho August 2013Cinch Sacks for Foster Children
By Bridgette Jodon June 2013Carrie Deer Salvage Art Workshop
By Sharon Brown May 2013First Editions (bespoke poetry for Pittsburghers)
By Alexi Morrissey April 2013Share Closet
By Andrea Wetherald March 2013The Creped Crusade
By Mike Good March 2013Knit the Bridge
By Penny Mateer February 201360 Seconds of Pure Freedom
By Michelle Thom January 2013Juice Up 412 Community Engagement Project
By Majestic Lane December 2012Healcrest Urban Farm Tea Pop Shop
By Maria Graziani November 2012Urban Stitches
By Tameka Reed October 2012Zip Line: Mt. Washington to the North Shore
By Adam Young September 2012The Caldwell Project
By caldwell linker August 2012Happy Smiles for Hilltop
By Susan Sieminski July 2012The First Bytes Society
By Nate Good June 2012Pittsburgh Light Disco
By Rasheda Vereen May 2012The Exquisite Machine
By Deanna Mulye April 2012Dickson Elementary Outdoor Art Garden
By Kathleen Guglielmi March 2012Community Steps Cooperative
By MJ Flott and Alex Lake February 2012The Drift (formerly Art Barge)
By Felipe Castelblanco Olaya January 2012Pop-up Co-op
By Talia Piazza December 2011The Puppet Photo Booth
By Murphi Cook December 2011About Us
Learn about Awesome PGH and what we fund!
Awesome Pittsburgh mines the brilliance of our city's artists, inventors, designers, leaders, champions, and dreamers and funds projects that have both local impact and global resonance. We believe that Pittsburgh, with all of the resources and amenities that have driven us to the top of "Best city..." lists, can bring more awesomeness to communities in our region that have been overlooked as well as the global community. And we're willing to give $1,000 each month to the people who show us the best ways to do that.
So, what exactly are we looking for, you ask? Overall, we tend to focus on tangible projects that we can’t wait to see come to life. Specifically, we are looking for:
Wowness: Is it something we've never heard of before? Does it make us say, “Holy coleslaw-on-a-sandwich, that’s awesome!”?
Niceness: Would the idea make people happy or help people?
Usefulness: Will the Awesome microgrant make a real difference in getting the project off the ground in the near future?
Direct & local impact: Will this project directly benefit the Pittsburgh region or its residents? (The more the better!)
If you can say yes to all of these questions, we look forward to learning about your project! Keep scrolling to the big pink "Apply for a Grant" button below!
We are entirely volunteer-run and self-funded from the amazing Pittsburghers listed below! Do you want to help? Email us at awesomepgh@gmail.com.
You can find out more about the latest going-ons at Awesome Pittsburgh at our official website. We are also on X (formerly known as Twitter) @awesomepgh, Facebook @awesomepgh, and Instagram @awesomepgh.