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