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