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Trans Art Fest

Por Carter Shocket January 2026

Teen Voices from the 5 Boros

Por Theodore Psahos December 2025

Fix Up Foster Bike Park

Por Brendan Vail November 2025

Jackson Heights Insider

Por Jonathan Baillie Strong October 2025

The Art-O-Mat: A Creative Community Exchange

Por Molly Rosner September 2025

100 Resumes in One Day

Por Ximena Velez August 2025

Breathe - Colombia Medical Center Mural

Por Marya Triandafellos July 2025

The Jungle Festival!

Por Kwesi Abbensetts June 2025

Soap Box Derby Race

Por Marla Schneider May 2025

Shower Power NYC - Fresh City Support

Por Richard Venon April 2025

Your Queens 10th Anniversary Art Gallery

Por Ekiuwa Asemota March 2025

Sew BK-NYC

Por Hekima Hapa February 2025

SLAMDANCE garage

Por Ian Andrew Askew January 2025

Bee University NYC

Por Andre Ware December 2024

Sassy Senior Self-Defense Workshops

Por Marisa Honma November 2024

Sonic Histories with Chinatown Records

Por Rochelle Hoi-Yiu Kwan October 2024

New Life Vests for Free Public Kayaking in NYC

Por Mike Petite September 2024

Punks Take Bluestockings: Punks of Color Incubator

Por Merlin Sabam September 2024

Take Our Students Out to Trampoline Park

Por LisaMarie Martin July 2024

Awán Na?

Por Sadanyah Flowing Water June 2024

Juneteenth Celebration at Historic Richmond Town

Por Elizabeth Wilson May 2024

MAYDAY FESTIVAL OF RESISTANCE 2024

Por Sara Martinez Arango // Mayday Space April 2024

Awesome Yarnbomb Club

Por Ellie d'Eustachio March 2024

Help Tami fight the Ambalo Bros and tell her story

Por East New York Community Land Trust February 2024

Fatherhood and Fades: Barbershop Talks

Por Shaleem Bush January 2024

Origami Vending Machine

Por Sok Song December 2023

The Reignite Residency

Por Shain Slepian / 14th Street Y October 2023

Miracle Compost Project

Por Nadege Alexis September 2023

STooPS Bed Stuy Summer Art Crawl

Por Kendra J. Ross July 2023

Brooklyn Cumbia Festival

Por Camilo Quiroz-Vazquez and One Whale's Tale June 2023

Tenant Tools for Repairs

Por Sateesh Nori at JustFix May 2023

Art on the Ave NYC - The Heights

Por Barbara Anderson April 2023

Flying Dragon Electric Skateboard

Por Stuart Anderson March 2023

Swan Song

Por Leslie Ruckman & Gal Nissim March 2023

A Relationship Guidebook for Sex Workers

Por Molly Simmons February 2023

Black History Month Game Jam

Por Victoria Coker January 2023

A Jury Of Our Queers

Por Section 175 Collective December 2022

Bronx Bound Books

Por Latanya DeVaughn November 2022

Talk To Me

Por jordan Seiler October 2022

Tiresias Presents UNDERWORLD

Por Evan Silver aka Tiresias September 2022

Welcome to the Club

Por Molly Woodward August 2022

Her Village Inc. Essential Items Bank

Por Chantal Alison-Konteh July 2022

Comedic Timing: Laughter and Liberation Festival

Por Kanene Holder June 2022

(Holy) Blood

Por Denis Butkus May 2022

Ragercize: An Aerobic Catharsis

Por Marella Martin Koch (on behalf of The Rally Cat) April 2022

Trans and Queer Immigrant-Led Food Pantry

Por Jay Dalal March 2022

Mother's Pearls Doula Training Program

Por Ebony N White-Kilpatrick March 2022

Coney Island Poetry Map

Por Amanda Deutch and Parachute Literary Arts February 2022

Here's To The Ladies Who - docuseries

Por Kiki Rathbun January 2022

Spatial Poetry Project

Por Hua Xi December 2021

The Passion Project

Por Shawn Waterman November 2021

GG

Por Jordan Dykstra October 2021

#Deliver4Justice

Por Sol Aramendi September 2021

Black Box

Por Michael Coppage August 2021

Collab GreenSpace

Por The Bronx Collab July 2021

Lucid Dream Minigolf

Por Bren Gaesser and Liam Singer June 2021

The Anywhere Festival of Everywhere Stages

Por Liz Oakley May 2021

Carbon Sponge

Por Brooke Singer April 2021

DIY Assistive Tech for the Masses!

Por Loreto Dumitrescu April 2021

"Leave some for me"

Por Angela Miskis April 2021

Synth Library NYC

Por CY X & Heidi Sabertooth March 2021

East New York Community Land Trust

Por Albert Scott Jr. February 2021

Trust Your Struggle: Foster Care Alumni Educators

Por Lili Glauber January 2021

BIPoC & LGBTQA+ Improv Scholarships

Por Nolan Kennedy December 2020

#SaveOurCompost

Por Anna Sacks December 2020

Student Newspaper Curriculum

Por Lara Bergen December 2020

2020 TransGiving Holiday Celebration

Por LaTravious Collins November 2020

IntegrateNYC Peer Defense Project

Por Molly Murphy October 2020

Globetops in NYC

Por Marco Lao September 2020

A Black Queer & Trans Garden in Bed-Stuy

Por Morgen Bromell August 2020

Public Assistants

Por DonChristian Jones July 2020

Mechanical Gardens Bike Co-op

Por Josh Bisker June 2020

Leveler

Por Alessandra DeBenedetti May 2020

Landlord Watch: COVID19 Response FAQ

Por Madeline Blount April 2020

Emergency Outdoor Bike Workshops

Por Time's Up! Environmental Group April 2020

Community Science Kits

Por Kiddie Science / Carmen Castillo-Barrett April 2020

NYHRE Holistic Health Services

Por Juan Cortez March 2020

Catcalls of NYC

Por Sophie Sandberg February 2020

Crown Heights Film Festival

Por Cynthia Chatman January 2020

Tech Learning Collective

Por Tech Learning Collective December 2019

Cookies for the Front Desk

Por Tamar Rubin November 2019

Unidentified Persons of New York

Por REBEKAH TURNER October 2019

Preservation of the DYKE TV Raw Footage Archive

Por Desiree Yael Vester September 2019

Ribbed Mussel Rehabilitation Project

Por Gary Francis August 2019

FourTop

Por Joanna Franchini July 2019

A game of cat and mouse

Por Laura Plimpton June 2019

The Birthday Party Project

Por Allison Dukes May 2019

New Neighbors Clothing Partnership

Por Shoshana Akabas April 2019

The Open Plant Community Biology Project

Por Rachel Haberstroh March 2019

Project X Bronx Poetry & Arts Festival

Por Noel Quiñones February 2019

Women's Weekend Film Challenge

Por Tracy Sayre and Katrina Medoff January 2019

mobile play:groundNYC

Por Rebecca Faulkner December 2018

Fresh Pipes:A Concert of World Premieres for Organ

Por Austin Philemon November 2018

Four Wise Cattle

Por Karyn Lao & Mark Zlotsky October 2018

Harriet Tubman Stamp

Por Dano Wall September 2018

Just Write Community Project

Por Tanesha "Coach Tea" Ingram August 2018

Block Party for a Just Rezoning

Por Northern Manhattan Is Not for Sale / Alto Manhattan No Se Vende July 2018

Homeward Bound: Memories, Identity, and Resilience

Por Mei Lum June 2018

21st CENTURY DEMOCRACY: A "How-To" Guide

Por Darshana Narayanan May 2018

WinC Con 2018

Por Regine Sawyer April 2018

Pedestrian Wanderlust

Por Rami Shafi March 2018

Computer1.0

Por Julian Goldman & Victoria Manganiello February 2018

Gallery Gurls

Por jasmin hernandez January 2018

Brooklyn Artisanal Gasoline

Por Hackett December 2017

Jefferson Gates

Por Superchief Gallery/ Rachel Kolarik November 2017

Syrian Refugee Graphic Mini-Narratives

Por Chris Russell October 2017

Emma's Torch Female Baking Collective

Por Julia Bumke September 2017

We the Ppl: Politics for Those Who Can't Vote

Por Zora Ilunga-Reed August 2017

The Free Black Women's Library

Por OlaRonke Akinmowo July 2017

New Women Space

Por Sandra Hong June 2017

1 Minute Meal: A Documentary Portrait of NYC

Por James Boo May 2017

Devised Theatre Project

Por Khristal Curtis April 2017

Free Water Ecology and Engineering Field Trips

Por Matt Malina March 2017

Women Who Build: Artist Who Own

Por Clara West February 2017

The Itinerant Writing Workshop in Spanish

Por Maria Paz Cuevas Silva January 2017

Action Item Fair

Por Ann Bickerton December 2016

Coffee Cup Artwork

Por Phoebe Ho November 2016

Game Night Event Series

Por Sheetal Prajapati October 2016

Piano in a Fishbowl

Por Adrian Untermyer September 2016

Murals for a Queens Supportive Housing Facility

Por Laini Nemett August 2016

ID Shop

Por Sue Jeong Ka July 2016

Queer Kid Stuff

Por Lindsay Amer June 2016

NYC #popscope

Por Isaac Lief May 2016

Cello Without Walls

Por Jacob Cohen / Friends of Island Academy April 2016

Amateur Science Meets Superconductor Research

Por Joseph Nardone March 2016

The Harlem Free School

Por Nailah Ricco March 2016

SLIME - Students of Long Island Maker Expo

Por Kristina A. Holzweiss February 2016

Gender Amplified

Por Ebonie Smith January 2016

Swale

Por Mary Mattingly December 2015

Visioning the adaptive reuse of the Montauk Cutoff

Por Gil Lopez November 2015

Mobile Print Power + Combat Paper

Por Interference Archive October 2015

THE FREE PORTRAIT PROJECT: CROWN HEIGHTS

Por RUSTY ZIMMERMAN September 2015

ACCESS N. BK: Flushing Avenue J/M Station

Por Alan Minor August 2015

Alliance for Girls in STEM

Por Sean Reed July 2015

Lost & Found

Por Betty Beaumont June 2015

Brooklyn Plans: Financial pop-up spaces in BK

Por Jennifer Velasquez and Kristen Euretig May 2015

4th Annual Sandwich Club Summit

Por Shannon Finnegan & Breanne Trammell April 2015

Cricket Coop

Por Rodrigo Guzman S (RSM) March 2015

The Coalition Zine

Por Alana Mohamed February 2015

The Rockaway Dye Garden

Por Isabella Scott January 2015

Showered With Hope Inc.

Por David Lin December 2014

To Park or Not to Park

Por Nikki Sylianteng November 2014

The Dreary Coast

Por Jeff Stark October 2014

Barter Town

Por Heather Hart September 2014

Forget Me Not: Shining Light on the Forgotten Boro

Por Bridget Bartolini August 2014

Little Hackers; hacking museums for NextGen NY

Por Nick Gray June 2014

Dog Amusement Park

Por Kerri Schlottman-Bright May 2014

Curbside Compost Messaging

Por Debby Lee Cohen April 2014

LICKESTRA: A Lickable Orchestra

Por Emilie Baltz March 2014

The 90-Second Newbery Film Festival

Por James Kennedy February 2014

We Radiate

Por Sashti Balasundaram January 2014

Sneel - Open Hardware Swimming Robotic Snake

Por gabriella levine December 2013

Pier 42 Wild Oyster Survey

Por The River Project November 2013

Hudson River Project

Por James Bowthorpe October 2013

The Love Motel for Insects: Anax Junios Variation

Por Brandon Ballengée September 2013

Climate Models Calendar

Por Rebecca Fowler August 2013

Subway Sets

Por Dan Pierson July 2013

Moore Street Aquaponics Education Farm

Por Yemi Amu June 2013

Movies at Sundown

Por Bronx Documentary Center May 2013

Nametag Day

Por Michael Morgenstern April 2013

Brooklyn Brainery Backyard

Por Jen Messier & Jonathan Soma March 2013

Wayfinding: 100 NYC Public Sculptures

Por Bundith Phunsombatlert February 2013

Uplift Yourself, Uplift the World

Por Zachary Valenti January 2013

1911 Baker Electric Automobile

Por Thomas W. Polapink December 2012

This is Not a Trash Pile

Por J McDonald/This is not a Trash Pile and Chef Moses/Culinary Kids in Rockaway, Queens November 2012

The Acoustic Guitar Project

Por David Adams October 2012

Illicit Couples Retreat

Por Ida Benedetto & Nathan Austin September 2012

Concrete Safaris: Afterschool in East Harlem

Por Mac Levine August 2012

Silent Lights

Por Valeria Bianco July 2012

Regret Project

Por Grayson Earle June 2012

Legomandala

Por Kylin O'Brien May 2012

596 Acres

Por Eric Brelsford and Paula Segal April 2012

Urban Free Farm - Producing free food in Brooklyn

Por Bushwick City Farms October 2011

Babycastles

Por Kunal Gupta June 2011

Hip-Hop Word Count

Por Tahir Hemphill July 2010

The Iguana House at the Brooklyn Children's Museum

Por The Iguana House at the Brooklyn Children's Museum April 2010

The Anywhere Organ

Por Matthew Borgatti March 2010

Laser Tweezers

Por Ben Dubin-Thaler, Ph.D. January 2010

Acerca de Nosotros

Our application deadline is the last day of the month. We meet on the second Monday of each month to review the previous month's submissions. If your application is time-sensitive, please let us know in your applications.

New York is bubbling with creativity and we are looking to fund really cool projects that touch everything from tech to social to art to media to education. Do you have a great idea? Apply for an AwesomeNYC grant today!

Some tips for writing an awesome grant application:

Be brief - we have a ton of applications to review every month
Be fun - remember, you want your application to stand out from the pack
Be specific - we want to know how you're going to use the $1,000 - show us that you've thought this thing through

If your project was not selected in a given month, please feel free to reapply. We generally only review applications from the current month's pool. In addition, please feel free to get in touch with us if you'd like feedback on your application - we're happy to talk!