Austin, TX
Free Book Fairs for Disadvantaged Kids
By Brooke Terry September 2024
Adaptive Gardening Equipment for AISD Students
By Amy Bartos August 2024
Empowering Afghan Women Refugees through Literacy
By Chichi Armstrong July 2024
Shea Butter Babies:Celebrating Queer Black Artists
By Kitty McLeod June 2024
Composting for a Soil-Rich Farming Future
By Hayley Wood February 2024
Suicide Prevention Awareness & Knowledge in ASL
By Allysa Dittmar January 2024
Awesome Tummies of North Austin
By Tom Cottar October 2023
Editing equipment for Elementary School Newscast
By Candi Johnson August 2023
Street Medics Austin
By Matthew Blaney July 2023
Expansion of LGBTQIA+ Library for Austin's Youth
By Christopher Dowling-Magill June 2023
Touch the Art: An Interactive Art Exhibition
By Natalie Earhart April 2023
Creating Gifted Programs that Represent Austin
By Shalelia Dillard March 2023
Yellow Bike Project
By Scott Menzies November 2022
"Yamel Cucuy" by Glass Half Full Theatre
By Caroline Reck July 2022
Swing Equality for the Differently-Abled
By Dr. Jacqueline Abernathy, MSSW, Ph.D., May 2022
A Full Life for folks with IDD
By Joseph Potts February 2022
Equal Access to Abortion Care in Central Texas
By The Bridge Collective December 2021
Open Call: Showtune Open Mic Night
By Susan Johnston Taylor November 2021
Black and Brown Academics and Mentorship
By Esther Nnali October 2021
Summer Break Theatre
By Maggie Bell (Meador) June 2021
AAAFF Centerpiece Film Drive-In Live Performance
By Hanna Huang April 2021
Humanize Austin
By Dusty Monroe February 2021
Foundation Communities Holiday Assistance Program
By Foundation Communities December 2020
S.T.R.I.V.E. with Women's Storybook Project
By Jill Gonzalez November 2020
Enjambment, the zine
By Spencer Dunkerley-Offor, Jeremy Gatson, Julian Perkins, Danny Martin & Melodi Ramirez October 2020
Smash Dysphoria
By E. Victoria August 2020
COVID-19 Hunger Relief
By Central Texas Food Bank April 2020
ATX Interfaces: a radically inclusive art showcase
By KB February 2020
Linder Elementary Parenting Engagement Theater
By Maria Hanley December 2019
Let's Make our Mariachi Awesome
By Diana Manzo November 2019
East Austin Studio Tour: Art Roller Coaster
By Kami T Wilt September 2019
Giving Austin Labor Support
By Morgan Miles July 2019
Outsiders Anonymous
By Adam Holt June 2019
First Annual Short Play Festival
By Simone Alexander, New Manifest Theatre April 2019
SAGE Studio Spring Art Show
By Katie Stahl March 2019
Transgender Day of Visibility
By Drew Riley February 2019
Write! Austin
By ND McCray January 2019
The Tiny Banger
By Alice Stanley December 2018
Language Access for Christopher House
By Hospice Austin November 2018
Indigenous Peoples Day: A Decolonial Celebration
By ALBERTO MEJIA October 2018
We Can See Through Time
By Rachel Wolfson Smith September 2018
The Texas Justice Initiative
By Eva Ruth Moravec July 2018
Home Street Music
By Vanessa Lively June 2018
Austin Abortion Access Hackathon
By Emily Loen May 2018
LGBTQIA+ Youth Summit for Austin ISD
By Max Casero, Communities in Schools April 2018
Civics 101: Your Guide To A Functional Democracy
By Amy Stansbury January 2018
Making It at the Downs-Jones Library
By Katrina Ashton at Huston-Tillotson University December 2017
Family Holiday Superbowl
By Kristin Davidson & Williamson County Juvenile Services November 2017
Interwoven: A Community Weaving Project
By Melissa Knight September 2017
Gender Unbound
By Drew Riley August 2017
Into the Wilds: A Portrait Project
By Jeanette Nevarez July 2017
TWENTYEIGHT: a new play
By Katherine Wilkinson June 2017
A New Kiln, and a Fresh Start
By Adam Yoo May 2017
The Dobie Middle School Family Resource Center
By Jose Carrasco April 2017
A Girl Named Sue: world premiere
By Color Arc Productions February 2017
Wild Places
By Joanna Garner January 2017
Austin Cares Homeless Initiative
By Sarah Ellis & Lauren Seiss December 2016
Successful Smiles of Texas
By Alethea Flores November 2016
Plastic Planet Animated PSA
By Calder Kamin October 2016
10th Annual KreweDCM Halloween Parade
By Christopher McMillan September 2016
Austin Archives Bazaar 2016
By Kristy Sorensen July 2016
arcade of anything
By JUEGOS RANCHEROS June 2016
Party World Rasslin'
By Timothy Faust May 2016
Performance-In-A-Box: Storytelling for Seniors
By Maggie Gallant & CASACA April 2016
CaveCast: Stories from Austin High Schoolers
By Katie Angermeier Haab & Austin Bat Cave March 2016
Ravaan Persian Dance Company
By Geeti Mahajan February 2016
Shakespeare: REPRESENT
By Shrewd Productions January 2016
Our Taco House Co-op
By Raquel Banda & Shirley Trevino December 2015
RE Source
By Forklift Danceworks November 2015
Adventure Therapy for Homeless Families
By Annette Pelletier October 2015
CLAWstin: Austin Collective of Lady Arm Wrestlers
By Amanda Soisson September 2015
Anthropos All-Stars CD Project
By Dylan Jones, Anthropos Arts July 2015
Circus of Hope
By Kenneth Pierce June 2015
The Quality or Condition
By Lauren Gurgiolo, Backstop Art Collective May 2015
Freehand Arts Project: Bringing the creative arts to those behind bars
By Kelsey Shipman, The Freehand Arts Project April 2015
Ballenarca: The Whale Ark
By Cheraya Esters March 2015
RE/CONNECT: Examining intimacy in a digital age
By Kristen Weller February 2015
BLXPLTN
By Katherine Quinones January 2015
The Gay Wax Museum
By Silky Shoemaker December 2014
Inside Books Project: promoting literacy for prisoners
By Jane Chamberlain, Inside Books Project November 2014
Bilingual books for kids, by kids
By Jennifer Siviter October 2014
The Krewe DCM Halloween Parade
By Krewe DCM & HONK!TX September 2014
KOOP: Bringing the power of radio to the people
By KOOP 91.7 FM August 2014
Spaces for reflection at Austin's green cemetery
By Ellen MacDonald July 2014
HOPE Outdoor Gallery: Showcasing Austin street art
By Andi Scull Cheatham, HOPE Outdoor Gallery June 2014
Third Coast Visions: Mobile Geodesic Dome Gallery
By Chancellor Roberts, Third Coast Visions Art Collective May 2014
Spoiler Alert: This Is How My Life Ends
By Jay Byrd April 2014
SKAM mural rehab: Preserving a piece of history
By Lindsay Palmer, Creative Action March 2014
Old Books for New Teachers
By Stephanie Noll February 2014
Elementary Science Discovery
By Amy Quartaro January 2014
The Texas Observer: Reaching Millions
By Piper Nelson December 2013
Legends for Youth baseball clinic for kids with disabilities
By John Lorek November 2013
Attendance Records: Inspiring Austin's next generation of musicians
By Jenna Carrens, Attendance Records October 2013
Citizen Node
By Amy Cavender August 2013
A Dance to Remember
By Maggie Gallant of CASACA July 2013
Powering a Robot with a Control Moment Gyroscope
By Joshua Stricker and Marek Travnikar June 2013
Queerbomb
By Beth Schindler May 2013
Performing Possibilities: Life after Prison
By Katherine Craft, Conspire Theatre April 2013
Have A Ball
By Jackie Garrett March 2013
Environmental Remediation Thru Hydrilla Harvesting
By Michael Jochum February 2013
Housewarming Gifts for the Previously Homeless
By Bryce Yeazell January 2013
Cooking Up English
By Casey Smith December 2012
HONK!TX: Festival of Community Street Bands
By HONK!TX November 2012
Austin Sea Veggies
By Lewis Weil October 2012
Color Squad: Youth transforming public spaces
By Lindsay Palmer September 2012
Burnet-Ohlen Treescape
By Steven Zettner August 2012
Urban Nature. Urban Kids.
By Bernadette Noll July 2012
Astronomy for underserved populations
By Amy Jackson June 2012
Slow Cooking for a Fast Food World
By Beth Rowan May 2012
Children of Bagbanistan
By Lenell Ripley April 2012
The Pay Phone Revival Project
By Bridget Quinn March 2012
About Us
We are the Austin, Texas chapter of the Awesome Foundation!
If you have an idea that could help keep Austin awesome, we hope you'll apply for one of our $1000 micro-grants. What does "awesome" mean, you ask? That's something we purposely leave up to your imagination. From a pop-up recreation of the Indiana Jones boulder scene to meat-filled zebra pinatas, if you can dream it, the Awesome Foundation would like to help you do it! Note: If your project is time-sensitive, we strongly recommend you apply at least 90 days in advance of when funds are needed.
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