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Trans Art Fest

Par Carter Shocket January 2026

Teen Voices from the 5 Boros

Par Theodore Psahos December 2025

Fix Up Foster Bike Park

Par Brendan Vail November 2025

Jackson Heights Insider

Par Jonathan Baillie Strong October 2025

The Art-O-Mat: A Creative Community Exchange

Par Molly Rosner September 2025

100 Resumes in One Day

Par Ximena Velez August 2025

Breathe - Colombia Medical Center Mural

Par Marya Triandafellos July 2025

The Jungle Festival!

Par Kwesi Abbensetts June 2025

Soap Box Derby Race

Par Marla Schneider May 2025

Shower Power NYC - Fresh City Support

Par Richard Venon April 2025

Your Queens 10th Anniversary Art Gallery

Par Ekiuwa Asemota March 2025

Sew BK-NYC

Par Hekima Hapa February 2025

SLAMDANCE garage

Par Ian Andrew Askew January 2025

Bee University NYC

Par Andre Ware December 2024

Sassy Senior Self-Defense Workshops

Par Marisa Honma November 2024

Sonic Histories with Chinatown Records

Par Rochelle Hoi-Yiu Kwan October 2024

New Life Vests for Free Public Kayaking in NYC

Par Mike Petite September 2024

Punks Take Bluestockings: Punks of Color Incubator

Par Merlin Sabam September 2024

Take Our Students Out to Trampoline Park

Par LisaMarie Martin July 2024

Awán Na?

Par Sadanyah Flowing Water June 2024

Juneteenth Celebration at Historic Richmond Town

Par Elizabeth Wilson May 2024

MAYDAY FESTIVAL OF RESISTANCE 2024

Par Sara Martinez Arango // Mayday Space April 2024

Awesome Yarnbomb Club

Par Ellie d'Eustachio March 2024

Help Tami fight the Ambalo Bros and tell her story

Par East New York Community Land Trust February 2024

Fatherhood and Fades: Barbershop Talks

Par Shaleem Bush January 2024

Origami Vending Machine

Par Sok Song December 2023

The Reignite Residency

Par Shain Slepian / 14th Street Y October 2023

Miracle Compost Project

Par Nadege Alexis September 2023

STooPS Bed Stuy Summer Art Crawl

Par Kendra J. Ross July 2023

Brooklyn Cumbia Festival

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

Tenant Tools for Repairs

Par Sateesh Nori at JustFix May 2023

Art on the Ave NYC - The Heights

Par Barbara Anderson April 2023

Flying Dragon Electric Skateboard

Par Stuart Anderson March 2023

Swan Song

Par Leslie Ruckman & Gal Nissim March 2023

A Relationship Guidebook for Sex Workers

Par Molly Simmons February 2023

Black History Month Game Jam

Par Victoria Coker January 2023

A Jury Of Our Queers

Par Section 175 Collective December 2022

Bronx Bound Books

Par Latanya DeVaughn November 2022

Talk To Me

Par jordan Seiler October 2022

Tiresias Presents UNDERWORLD

Par Evan Silver aka Tiresias September 2022

Welcome to the Club

Par Molly Woodward August 2022

Her Village Inc. Essential Items Bank

Par Chantal Alison-Konteh July 2022

Comedic Timing: Laughter and Liberation Festival

Par Kanene Holder June 2022

(Holy) Blood

Par Denis Butkus May 2022

Ragercize: An Aerobic Catharsis

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

Trans and Queer Immigrant-Led Food Pantry

Par Jay Dalal March 2022

Mother's Pearls Doula Training Program

Par Ebony N White-Kilpatrick March 2022

Coney Island Poetry Map

Par Amanda Deutch and Parachute Literary Arts February 2022

Here's To The Ladies Who - docuseries

Par Kiki Rathbun January 2022

Spatial Poetry Project

Par Hua Xi December 2021

The Passion Project

Par Shawn Waterman November 2021

GG

Par Jordan Dykstra October 2021

#Deliver4Justice

Par Sol Aramendi September 2021

Black Box

Par Michael Coppage August 2021

Collab GreenSpace

Par The Bronx Collab July 2021

Lucid Dream Minigolf

Par Bren Gaesser and Liam Singer June 2021

The Anywhere Festival of Everywhere Stages

Par Liz Oakley May 2021

Carbon Sponge

Par Brooke Singer April 2021

DIY Assistive Tech for the Masses!

Par Loreto Dumitrescu April 2021

"Leave some for me"

Par Angela Miskis April 2021

Synth Library NYC

Par CY X & Heidi Sabertooth March 2021

East New York Community Land Trust

Par Albert Scott Jr. February 2021

Trust Your Struggle: Foster Care Alumni Educators

Par Lili Glauber January 2021

BIPoC & LGBTQA+ Improv Scholarships

Par Nolan Kennedy December 2020

#SaveOurCompost

Par Anna Sacks December 2020

Student Newspaper Curriculum

Par Lara Bergen December 2020

2020 TransGiving Holiday Celebration

Par LaTravious Collins November 2020

IntegrateNYC Peer Defense Project

Par Molly Murphy October 2020

Globetops in NYC

Par Marco Lao September 2020

A Black Queer & Trans Garden in Bed-Stuy

Par Morgen Bromell August 2020

Public Assistants

Par DonChristian Jones July 2020

Mechanical Gardens Bike Co-op

Par Josh Bisker June 2020

Leveler

Par Alessandra DeBenedetti May 2020

Landlord Watch: COVID19 Response FAQ

Par Madeline Blount April 2020

Emergency Outdoor Bike Workshops

Par Time's Up! Environmental Group April 2020

Community Science Kits

Par Kiddie Science / Carmen Castillo-Barrett April 2020

NYHRE Holistic Health Services

Par Juan Cortez March 2020

Catcalls of NYC

Par Sophie Sandberg February 2020

Crown Heights Film Festival

Par Cynthia Chatman January 2020

Tech Learning Collective

Par Tech Learning Collective December 2019

Cookies for the Front Desk

Par Tamar Rubin November 2019

Unidentified Persons of New York

Par REBEKAH TURNER October 2019

Preservation of the DYKE TV Raw Footage Archive

Par Desiree Yael Vester September 2019

Ribbed Mussel Rehabilitation Project

Par Gary Francis August 2019

FourTop

Par Joanna Franchini July 2019

A game of cat and mouse

Par Laura Plimpton June 2019

The Birthday Party Project

Par Allison Dukes May 2019

New Neighbors Clothing Partnership

Par Shoshana Akabas April 2019

The Open Plant Community Biology Project

Par Rachel Haberstroh March 2019

Project X Bronx Poetry & Arts Festival

Par Noel Quiñones February 2019

Women's Weekend Film Challenge

Par Tracy Sayre and Katrina Medoff January 2019

mobile play:groundNYC

Par Rebecca Faulkner December 2018

Fresh Pipes:A Concert of World Premieres for Organ

Par Austin Philemon November 2018

Four Wise Cattle

Par Karyn Lao & Mark Zlotsky October 2018

Harriet Tubman Stamp

Par Dano Wall September 2018

Just Write Community Project

Par Tanesha "Coach Tea" Ingram August 2018

Block Party for a Just Rezoning

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

Homeward Bound: Memories, Identity, and Resilience

Par Mei Lum June 2018

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

Par Darshana Narayanan May 2018

WinC Con 2018

Par Regine Sawyer April 2018

Pedestrian Wanderlust

Par Rami Shafi March 2018

Computer1.0

Par Julian Goldman & Victoria Manganiello February 2018

Gallery Gurls

Par jasmin hernandez January 2018

Brooklyn Artisanal Gasoline

Par Hackett December 2017

Jefferson Gates

Par Superchief Gallery/ Rachel Kolarik November 2017

Syrian Refugee Graphic Mini-Narratives

Par Chris Russell October 2017

Emma's Torch Female Baking Collective

Par Julia Bumke September 2017

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

Par Zora Ilunga-Reed August 2017

The Free Black Women's Library

Par OlaRonke Akinmowo July 2017

New Women Space

Par Sandra Hong June 2017

1 Minute Meal: A Documentary Portrait of NYC

Par James Boo May 2017

Devised Theatre Project

Par Khristal Curtis April 2017

Free Water Ecology and Engineering Field Trips

Par Matt Malina March 2017

Women Who Build: Artist Who Own

Par Clara West February 2017

The Itinerant Writing Workshop in Spanish

Par Maria Paz Cuevas Silva January 2017

Action Item Fair

Par Ann Bickerton December 2016

Coffee Cup Artwork

Par Phoebe Ho November 2016

Game Night Event Series

Par Sheetal Prajapati October 2016

Piano in a Fishbowl

Par Adrian Untermyer September 2016

Murals for a Queens Supportive Housing Facility

Par Laini Nemett August 2016

ID Shop

Par Sue Jeong Ka July 2016

Queer Kid Stuff

Par Lindsay Amer June 2016

NYC #popscope

Par Isaac Lief May 2016

Cello Without Walls

Par Jacob Cohen / Friends of Island Academy April 2016

Amateur Science Meets Superconductor Research

Par Joseph Nardone March 2016

The Harlem Free School

Par Nailah Ricco March 2016

SLIME - Students of Long Island Maker Expo

Par Kristina A. Holzweiss February 2016

Gender Amplified

Par Ebonie Smith January 2016

Swale

Par Mary Mattingly December 2015

Visioning the adaptive reuse of the Montauk Cutoff

Par Gil Lopez November 2015

Mobile Print Power + Combat Paper

Par Interference Archive October 2015

THE FREE PORTRAIT PROJECT: CROWN HEIGHTS

Par RUSTY ZIMMERMAN September 2015

ACCESS N. BK: Flushing Avenue J/M Station

Par Alan Minor August 2015

Alliance for Girls in STEM

Par Sean Reed July 2015

Lost & Found

Par Betty Beaumont June 2015

Brooklyn Plans: Financial pop-up spaces in BK

Par Jennifer Velasquez and Kristen Euretig May 2015

4th Annual Sandwich Club Summit

Par Shannon Finnegan & Breanne Trammell April 2015

Cricket Coop

Par Rodrigo Guzman S (RSM) March 2015

The Coalition Zine

Par Alana Mohamed February 2015

The Rockaway Dye Garden

Par Isabella Scott January 2015

Showered With Hope Inc.

Par David Lin December 2014

To Park or Not to Park

Par Nikki Sylianteng November 2014

The Dreary Coast

Par Jeff Stark October 2014

Barter Town

Par Heather Hart September 2014

Forget Me Not: Shining Light on the Forgotten Boro

Par Bridget Bartolini August 2014

Little Hackers; hacking museums for NextGen NY

Par Nick Gray June 2014

Dog Amusement Park

Par Kerri Schlottman-Bright May 2014

Curbside Compost Messaging

Par Debby Lee Cohen April 2014

LICKESTRA: A Lickable Orchestra

Par Emilie Baltz March 2014

The 90-Second Newbery Film Festival

Par James Kennedy February 2014

We Radiate

Par Sashti Balasundaram January 2014

Sneel - Open Hardware Swimming Robotic Snake

Par gabriella levine December 2013

Pier 42 Wild Oyster Survey

Par The River Project November 2013

Hudson River Project

Par James Bowthorpe October 2013

The Love Motel for Insects: Anax Junios Variation

Par Brandon Ballengée September 2013

Climate Models Calendar

Par Rebecca Fowler August 2013

Subway Sets

Par Dan Pierson July 2013

Moore Street Aquaponics Education Farm

Par Yemi Amu June 2013

Movies at Sundown

Par Bronx Documentary Center May 2013

Nametag Day

Par Michael Morgenstern April 2013

Brooklyn Brainery Backyard

Par Jen Messier & Jonathan Soma March 2013

Wayfinding: 100 NYC Public Sculptures

Par Bundith Phunsombatlert February 2013

Uplift Yourself, Uplift the World

Par Zachary Valenti January 2013

1911 Baker Electric Automobile

Par Thomas W. Polapink December 2012

This is Not a Trash Pile

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

The Acoustic Guitar Project

Par David Adams October 2012

Illicit Couples Retreat

Par Ida Benedetto & Nathan Austin September 2012

Concrete Safaris: Afterschool in East Harlem

Par Mac Levine August 2012

Silent Lights

Par Valeria Bianco July 2012

Regret Project

Par Grayson Earle June 2012

Legomandala

Par Kylin O'Brien May 2012

596 Acres

Par Eric Brelsford and Paula Segal April 2012

Urban Free Farm - Producing free food in Brooklyn

Par Bushwick City Farms October 2011

Babycastles

Par Kunal Gupta June 2011

Hip-Hop Word Count

Par Tahir Hemphill July 2010

The Iguana House at the Brooklyn Children's Museum

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

The Anywhere Organ

Par Matthew Borgatti March 2010

Laser Tweezers

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

A Propos

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!