Disability
Disability-led Disaster Response to LA Fires
От The Partnership for Inclusive Disaster Strategies January 2025
Adaptive Rock Climbing - A Community for Everyone
От Denny Kowska December 2024
Document Us!
От Hilda Bubmi Balogun November 2024
The Girlz C.O.D.E (Colors of Disability Equality)
От Monique Stamps October 2024
Sexto Festival de Cine Accesible “AcceCine”
От Elizabeth Campos Sánchez September 2024
National Disabled Legal Professionals Association
От Marissa Ditkowsky August 2024
WOW Medical Supply Drive
От Natalia Mendez July 2024
Penny Forward
От Chris Peterson June 2024
Nkhotakota Disability Inclusion Festival
От Matson Dezi May 2024FIGHTING FOR THE RIGHT OF DEAF PEOPLE TO DRIVE
От Samson Ndindiriyimana April 2024
DisCo Devs Jam
От Fen Bernard March 2024
Campaign Co-Create, Not Confine
От Nikita Ghodke February 2024
Suicide Prevention Awareness & Knowledge in ASL
От DeafHealth January 2024
ASL Interpretation at Under the Umbrella Bookstore
От Kaitlyn Mahoney December 2023
Bay Area Autism Collective
От Bird Sellergren November 2023
Publication of Music Notation Book in Braille
От BlindRocks October 2023
Education Video- The FDR Wheelchair Statue Fight
От Mary E Dolan September 2023
The Autistic People of Color Fund
От Lydia Brown August 2023
Queerly It’s Lipedema
От Marina Patrice "MP" Vare July 2023
Disability Victory
От Sarah Blahovec June 2023
Ability Through Action
От Kelsea MacKay May 2023
Disabled Parts
От carrie sarah kaufman (ck) April 2023
SpotPOTS
От Doug Gord March 2023
Crip Ecstasy
От Octavia Hingle February 2023
COVID Safe Campus Ambassador Program
От Eiryn Griest Schwartzman January 2023
DeafCan: Mentorship for Deaf-Autistic Adults
От Gregory Perez December 2022
Crip Justice Social Media
От Dezrea DAlessandro November 2022
SPANKBOX
От Jessica Elaine Blinkhorn October 2022
Execution by the Numbers
От Rock Grant September 2022
New Disabled South
От Dom Kelly August 2022
Sick and Disabled Zine and Craft Fair
От October Stoner July 2022
Socially Distant Art Residency
От Socially Distant Art: Patricia Kalidonis, Akari Komura, and Rae Maxwell-Ross June 2022
Disabled Academic Collective - Summer Series
От Nicole Schroeder May 2022
CripJustice
От Sunjay Smith April 2022
The Power in Pride Celebration
От Marie Dagenais-Lewis March 2022
Disabled in Higher Edx DisabledInSTEM Mentoring Pr
От Linda Corcoran February 2022
Body without blah-blah
От Puneet Singh Singhal January 2022
TouchBot Pleasure Tech
От Margaret Andersen December 2021
Voice-controlled audio effects
От Elizabeth Adelaide November 2021
Black Students for Students with Disabilities
От Rasheera Dopson October 2021
Pleasurable: Disability-related Sex Ed
От Caz Killjoy September 2021
The Asian Americans with Disabilities Initiative
От Jennifer Lee August 2021
Inclusive mobile children´s library
От Elizabeth Campos July 2021
Every Ability Plays Project
От Toña Rivera June 2021
Forest Bath - Baxter Woods
От Caitlin Cameron May 2021
Terminally Chill
От Kirsten Michelle Cills April 2021
The Uhuru Dream House
От Uhuru Moor March 2021
Cuéntame
От Ryan Michael Roach February 2021
Prevailers Sports
От Peneliope Richards January 2021
The Covid Disability Archive
От Daisy Holder December 2020
Wheelchair/scooter charging
От Rachel Malone November 2020
CPR for the Deaf and Disabled
От Zaineb Al-Abdulla October 2020
Candidato 34
От Hitch Films September 2020
Peer Defenders
От Josephine Steuer Ingall August 2020
Exploring the Impacts of Ableism during COVID-19
От Ryan Michael Roach July 2020
Amplifying the voices of BIPOC with disabilities
От Elizabeth Ralston June 2020
Groundwork Minneapolis
От Kya Concepcion May 2020
Decreasing isolation during Covid-19
От Allison Fine April 2020
East Bay Mutual Aid Project
От Disability Justice Culture Club March 2020
Disability Internships are key to longevity
От Vicki Landers February 2020The [Disabled] Black Boy Joy Project
От Jerron Herman January 2020
The Banana Project: Visualising Hearing impairment
От Monika Balu December 2019
The Partnership for Inclusive Disaster Strategies
От Valerie Novack November 2019
VIsION AI Glasses for the Blind
От Marx Vergel Melencio October 2019
Disability Justice Institute
От Dean Strauss September 2019
Raising Menstruation Pads 4 Girls with Disability
От Zinsanze Rogers Basoga August 2019
ASL COMEDY WORKSHOP
От Patrick KIlgalllon July 2019
Uro
От Chinasa Vivian Ezugha June 2019
Miller's Grove Public Access
От Sophia Gordon-Stevens May 2019
Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health Rights
От Zinsanze Basoga Rogers April 2019
Access-Centered Trauma and Pain Healing Workshops
От Access-Centered Movement March 2019
DREAM
От Kim Elmore February 2019
Disabled And Here
От Elea Chang January 2019
Water Belongs To Everyone
От Ahmet Ustunel December 2018
Aromatica Poetica's Blind Writers Project
От M. Leona Godin November 2018The Brain Injury Climbing Club
От Bryn Davies October 2018
Persons with Disabilities Comedy Showcase
От Kyle Marian Viterbo September 2018
"Spill the Disabili-Tea" workshop
От Alex Locust August 2018
"Buy A Battery-Give Independence"
От Karen Langley July 2018
Community-Built Dance Performance
От Brandon Cordrey July 2018
Self Care Sunday's Podcast
От Jess Talwar June 2018
Bringing Inclusive Dance to St. Paul
От Lindsay Eales May 2018
TeleMental Health Services for the Deaf Community
От Amanda Crane April 2018
Disabled Writers Writing Fellowships
От s.e. smith March 2018
Tactile Exhibit for DESCENT
От Alice Sheppard February 2018
Disability & Intersectionality Summit 2018
От Sandy Ho January 2018
Unshame Pain Project
От Maayan Simon December 2017
Canadian Disability Justice Alliance
От Alex Haagaard November 2017
#ADAPTandRESIST
От Ericka Jones October 2017
NOS Magazine
От Sara Luterman September 2017
DisabilityAfterDark Podcast
От Andrew Gurza August 2017
The Accessible Stall Podcast
От Emily Ladau and Kyle Khachadurian July 2017
Peer-To-Peer Wheelchair Repair
От Katie Savin June 2017Huertomanias
От Margorie Yana May 2017
Disability Arts Project Uganda
От Batale Fred April 2017
За Нас
Apply for a grant here: https://www.awesomefoundation.org/en/submissions/new?chapter=disability
Our impact to date (November 2024): $93,500 granted | 94 projects funded | 14 countries | 10,000+ submissions
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You can subscribe to our monthly newsletter here: https://awesomedisability.substack.com/
We accept submissions between the 1st and the 10th of every month.
Note we will not consider requests to fund an individual's medical needs, rent, utilities, home repairs, car trouble, appliances, etc.
Launched in April 2017, Awesome Disability is an independent chapter of the Awesome Foundation, a global community that provides micro-grants with no strings attached. The trustees of Awesome Disability are people with disabilities that want to support ideas and projects in our community.
Featured in Rooted in Rights and Diversability.
How it works
- 10-ish Trustees (on average) each contribute $100 per month.
- People with awesome ideas submit an application for the grant. Please submit your application in English.
- The trustees review and discuss the applications, and pick the best one.
- The winner is given $1000, no strings attached.
- The process is repeated every month, in order to spread the awesomeness.
We accept submissions for the month's grant between the 1st through the 10th of the current month. We will not consider applications submitted outside of this window. Decisions are made by the end of the month.
We select one application for the monthly grant.
Apply for a grant here: https://www.awesomefoundation.org/en/submissions/new?chapter=disability
Questions? Email us at: disability@awesomefoundation.org
Would you like to become a Trustee of Awesome Disability? Trustees each contribute $100 toward the $1,000 no-strings-attached award, and decide by consensus who will receive the grant. Sound awesome? Apply to become a Trustee