Disability
Disability-led Disaster Response to LA Fires
Par The Partnership for Inclusive Disaster Strategies January 2025
Adaptive Rock Climbing - A Community for Everyone
Par Denny Kowska December 2024
Document Us!
Par Hilda Bubmi Balogun November 2024
The Girlz C.O.D.E (Colors of Disability Equality)
Par Monique Stamps October 2024
Sexto Festival de Cine Accesible “AcceCine”
Par Elizabeth Campos Sánchez September 2024
National Disabled Legal Professionals Association
Par Marissa Ditkowsky August 2024
WOW Medical Supply Drive
Par Natalia Mendez July 2024
Penny Forward
Par Chris Peterson June 2024
Nkhotakota Disability Inclusion Festival
Par Matson Dezi May 2024FIGHTING FOR THE RIGHT OF DEAF PEOPLE TO DRIVE
Par Samson Ndindiriyimana April 2024
DisCo Devs Jam
Par Fen Bernard March 2024
Campaign Co-Create, Not Confine
Par Nikita Ghodke February 2024
Suicide Prevention Awareness & Knowledge in ASL
Par DeafHealth January 2024
ASL Interpretation at Under the Umbrella Bookstore
Par Kaitlyn Mahoney December 2023
Bay Area Autism Collective
Par Bird Sellergren November 2023
Publication of Music Notation Book in Braille
Par BlindRocks October 2023
Education Video- The FDR Wheelchair Statue Fight
Par Mary E Dolan September 2023
The Autistic People of Color Fund
Par Lydia Brown August 2023
Queerly It’s Lipedema
Par Marina Patrice "MP" Vare July 2023
Disability Victory
Par Sarah Blahovec June 2023
Ability Through Action
Par Kelsea MacKay May 2023
Disabled Parts
Par carrie sarah kaufman (ck) April 2023
SpotPOTS
Par Doug Gord March 2023
Crip Ecstasy
Par Octavia Hingle February 2023
COVID Safe Campus Ambassador Program
Par Eiryn Griest Schwartzman January 2023
DeafCan: Mentorship for Deaf-Autistic Adults
Par Gregory Perez December 2022
Crip Justice Social Media
Par Dezrea DAlessandro November 2022
SPANKBOX
Par Jessica Elaine Blinkhorn October 2022
Execution by the Numbers
Par Rock Grant September 2022
New Disabled South
Par Dom Kelly August 2022
Sick and Disabled Zine and Craft Fair
Par October Stoner July 2022
Socially Distant Art Residency
Par Socially Distant Art: Patricia Kalidonis, Akari Komura, and Rae Maxwell-Ross June 2022
Disabled Academic Collective - Summer Series
Par Nicole Schroeder May 2022
CripJustice
Par Sunjay Smith April 2022
The Power in Pride Celebration
Par Marie Dagenais-Lewis March 2022
Disabled in Higher Edx DisabledInSTEM Mentoring Pr
Par Linda Corcoran February 2022
Body without blah-blah
Par Puneet Singh Singhal January 2022
TouchBot Pleasure Tech
Par Margaret Andersen December 2021
Voice-controlled audio effects
Par Elizabeth Adelaide November 2021
Black Students for Students with Disabilities
Par Rasheera Dopson October 2021
Pleasurable: Disability-related Sex Ed
Par Caz Killjoy September 2021
The Asian Americans with Disabilities Initiative
Par Jennifer Lee August 2021
Inclusive mobile children´s library
Par Elizabeth Campos July 2021
Every Ability Plays Project
Par Toña Rivera June 2021
Forest Bath - Baxter Woods
Par Caitlin Cameron May 2021
Terminally Chill
Par Kirsten Michelle Cills April 2021
The Uhuru Dream House
Par Uhuru Moor March 2021
Cuéntame
Par Ryan Michael Roach February 2021
Prevailers Sports
Par Peneliope Richards January 2021
The Covid Disability Archive
Par Daisy Holder December 2020
Wheelchair/scooter charging
Par Rachel Malone November 2020
CPR for the Deaf and Disabled
Par Zaineb Al-Abdulla October 2020
Candidato 34
Par Hitch Films September 2020
Peer Defenders
Par Josephine Steuer Ingall August 2020
Exploring the Impacts of Ableism during COVID-19
Par Ryan Michael Roach July 2020
Amplifying the voices of BIPOC with disabilities
Par Elizabeth Ralston June 2020
Groundwork Minneapolis
Par Kya Concepcion May 2020
Decreasing isolation during Covid-19
Par Allison Fine April 2020
East Bay Mutual Aid Project
Par Disability Justice Culture Club March 2020
Disability Internships are key to longevity
Par Vicki Landers February 2020The [Disabled] Black Boy Joy Project
Par Jerron Herman January 2020
The Banana Project: Visualising Hearing impairment
Par Monika Balu December 2019
The Partnership for Inclusive Disaster Strategies
Par Valerie Novack November 2019
VIsION AI Glasses for the Blind
Par Marx Vergel Melencio October 2019
Disability Justice Institute
Par Dean Strauss September 2019
Raising Menstruation Pads 4 Girls with Disability
Par Zinsanze Rogers Basoga August 2019
ASL COMEDY WORKSHOP
Par Patrick KIlgalllon July 2019
Uro
Par Chinasa Vivian Ezugha June 2019
Miller's Grove Public Access
Par Sophia Gordon-Stevens May 2019
Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health Rights
Par Zinsanze Basoga Rogers April 2019
Access-Centered Trauma and Pain Healing Workshops
Par Access-Centered Movement March 2019
DREAM
Par Kim Elmore February 2019
Disabled And Here
Par Elea Chang January 2019
Water Belongs To Everyone
Par Ahmet Ustunel December 2018
Aromatica Poetica's Blind Writers Project
Par M. Leona Godin November 2018The Brain Injury Climbing Club
Par Bryn Davies October 2018
Persons with Disabilities Comedy Showcase
Par Kyle Marian Viterbo September 2018
"Spill the Disabili-Tea" workshop
Par Alex Locust August 2018
"Buy A Battery-Give Independence"
Par Karen Langley July 2018
Community-Built Dance Performance
Par Brandon Cordrey July 2018
Self Care Sunday's Podcast
Par Jess Talwar June 2018
Bringing Inclusive Dance to St. Paul
Par Lindsay Eales May 2018
TeleMental Health Services for the Deaf Community
Par Amanda Crane April 2018
Disabled Writers Writing Fellowships
Par s.e. smith March 2018
Tactile Exhibit for DESCENT
Par Alice Sheppard February 2018
Disability & Intersectionality Summit 2018
Par Sandy Ho January 2018
Unshame Pain Project
Par Maayan Simon December 2017
Canadian Disability Justice Alliance
Par Alex Haagaard November 2017
#ADAPTandRESIST
Par Ericka Jones October 2017
NOS Magazine
Par Sara Luterman September 2017
DisabilityAfterDark Podcast
Par Andrew Gurza August 2017
The Accessible Stall Podcast
Par Emily Ladau and Kyle Khachadurian July 2017
Peer-To-Peer Wheelchair Repair
Par Katie Savin June 2017Huertomanias
Par Margorie Yana May 2017
Disability Arts Project Uganda
Par Batale Fred April 2017
A Propos
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
Make a 501c3 tax-deductible donation to support our admin costs: https://buy.stripe.com/fZe9CrcDj2J36Ri7sv
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