Buffalo, NY
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ըստ Emma Brittain December 2023Community wall
ըստ Veronica Gay August 2023Badass HERstory Exhibit and Community Art Project
ըստ Michelle Perkins June 2023Community Educational Garden
ըստ Talea Barnes April 2023Community Art Project & Paint Day at the NFFT
ըստ Saira Siddiqui February 2023#LiveLoveAndBe Campaign
ըստ Zhanna Reed December 2022Signing As Art
ըստ Kamil Gerald October 2022Present State and Future Potential
ըստ Thomas Stankowski August 2022Rooted in Love community collective
ըստ Rooted in Love May 2022Too Damn Cold and Funky Musical Bike Tour
ըստ Marc Moscato April 2022Story Sit-In
ըստ Lorna MacDonald Czarnota February 2022Buffalo Women of Environment Learning & Leadership
ըստ Helen Toledo December 2021Care Closet
ըստ Joe'l Staples October 2021Create Your Flavor
ըստ Bianca L. McGraw August 2021RAWtools Buffalo
ըստ Steve Johnson June 2021Sit and Think Chairs
ըստ Lindsey Taylor April 2021Free Little Sled Library
ըստ Darren Cotton February 2021Colored Girls Bike Too
ըստ Jalonda Hill December 2020BLM Project
ըստ Melissa Mjoen October 2020Community Vision Quest
ըստ Laura Kelly August 2020That Brown Bag
ըստ Shantelle Lynette Patton June 2020Faces of Buffalo
ըստ Dana Saylor May 2020Granola for Good, from Good Neighbors
ըստ Awesome Buffalo 2020 Trustees + Perfect Granola's Michele Liddle March 2020Rust Belt Harvest
ըստ Theresa Church February 2020Awesome December
ըստ Awesome Buffalo December 2019Birthday Buddies
ըստ M. Erin Grady November 2019The Bus Stop Project
ըստ Kerianne Socker August 2019Blessing Bags
ըստ Carrie A. Smith June 2019Cutting the Cord Workshops
ըստ John O'Brien April 2019A Different View to Buffalo
ըստ Nandor Pinter March 2019Trash Can Be Beautiful Project
ըստ Candace Moppins September 2018Feed Buffalo Little Pantries
ըստ Drea dNur July 2018Sweet Buffalo Rocks at Oishei Children's Hospital
ըստ Kimberly LaRussa May 2018Solar Sprouts
ըստ Andrea Oaks March 2018Awesome Weekend
ըստ Awesome Buffalo December 2017Please DO Touch the Art
ըստ Jessica Widmer September 2017Open Storefront Makeover Program
ըստ Joseph Kurtz June 2017Rainbows on Allen
ըստ Seth Amman March 2017Մեր մասին
Awesome Buffalo is a giving circle that awards $1000 cash to weird, wonderful, and timely projects that make Buffalo more awesome.
We’re entirely volunteer-run and self-funded. We don’t distribute grants, and we’re not organized as a nonprofit. We simply give no-strings-attached cash to one awesome project every other month.
If you’ve ever enjoyed the rainbow crosswalk at Elmwood & Allen, like Elton John did, you’re welcome.
Deadlines
Please submit your project ideas by 6pm on the following dates:
►► February 28
►► April 11
►► June 13
►► August 8
►► October 10
►► December 12
What makes a project Awesome?
We use the following loose criteria to select projects. Consider addressing these areas in your application:
►►Is it awesome?: Is it unique? A new idea? Something that may be unfundable through traditional means? We’re looking for your Silly Walks and your bus stop jazz clubs.
►► Will $1000 make an actual impact? : We try to support individuals and small groups, rather than organizations who’re already well-funded. We’re looking for the small, but mighty projects for which $1000 will make a huge difference. Be as specific as possible; tell us exactly how the cash will be spent, so we can best understand your idea.
►►How will the project help the Buffalo area?: It’s important to us to fund projects that directly support and impact our neighbors in the Buffalo-Niagara community. We’ll consider projects outside city limits, but maybe not all the way in Rochester. Pssst… they have a chapter too!
We don’t typically fund:
►► Personal use: We think you’re really awesome, but we can't give you $1000 for personal salary/a car/vacation/rent payment/home reno/pony.
►► Charities, foundations, organizations: We’re primarily interested in new ventures and not the continuation of an existing organization. But existing organizations with a specific, creative $1000 project can apply!
►► Promotion: We want to hear all about your awesome idea and how we can help fund its happening, not just its posters.
Participate
Interested in joining our circle as a donating member? Drop us a form to join the waitlist here!
Media Coverage
- Buffalo Business First: Got an awesome project? This group of Buffalonians wants to fund it.
- Buffalo Business First: Everyone has crazy ideas. Why not bring them to us?
- Buffalo Rising: Awesome Buffalo
- Buffalo Rising: RAWTools Buffalo | Guns to Garden Tools
- Buffalo Rising: The Little Free Sled Library
- Buffalo Spree: Awesome Buffalo Funds More Projects
- Latitude - The 43North Podcast: Making Buffalo Awesome
- News 4, WIVB-TV featuring Colored Girls Bike Too
- News 4, WIVB-TV featuring Feed Buffalo
- Niagara Frontier Publications
- WBFO coverage of Be Awesome Day
- WBFO featuring Rainbows on Allen