Sydney
Warm Paws NSW - Being Pawesome!!
Par Kathryn Hacio December 2024Maxie's Polaroids
Par Max Truong November 2024Ice cream, you scream, we all scream for ice cream
Par Danielle Courtney October 2024Feeling the Wind in Their Hair
Par Kerrie Barker October 2024Studio Artes Visual Art Program: Art Supplies
Par Bexie Neeley October 2024Affordable Headshots for Artists
Par Emma Wright September 2024Anomalies
Par Jordyn Fulcher August 2024KinHub
Par Corinne Smith June 2024Our Stories Through Theatre
Par Tanja Djordjevic May 2024The Good Life: Voices from Sydney's Streets [wt]
Par Jordan Grantham April 2024If/When
Par Jasmine Hair March 2024MYST Madi Gras parade screening party
Par Flinn Donovan February 2024Kangaroo & Joey Rehabilitation Enclosure
Par Jill Gilbert February 2024Deb's Pouring and Craft Sanctuary
Par Debbi-Ann Cain November 2023Pride Morris
Par Rosie Wylie October 2023WWYW Survivor Healing Groups
Par Brittany Cozic September 2023Sydney Pollinator Lab
Par Alex Crowe August 2023Back to Birdy
Par Sean Landis July 2023Deaf Festival Sydney
Par Madeleine Uaine June 2023The Bass Hill Pre Kindy Program
Par mecca laalaa June 2023Multilingual storytellers ready to fly
Par Lillian Rodrigues-Pang May 2023Free Lightsabers in Darling Harbour
Par Timothy Yang April 2023DSA Sydney Rashies
Par Shane Henn March 2023NWME Inc - Nurrgingy Miniature Railway
Par Jennifer Barnett-Baistow February 2023Art Kits for Kids & Women in Refuges
Par Pamela Woods December 2022Dharawal Language Book and Gift Pack
Par Aunty Donna & Sutherland Shire Reconciliation Group November 2022Coogee Surf Life Saving Community: Beach Safety
Par Adam Cohen (UTS) October 2022NICI Gadigal Skills for Success Program
Par Nathan Lovett October 2022Yanadi Ladies Group
Par Wendy Anne French September 2022Holroyd High School Multicultural Day
Par Courtney Palucci September 2022OddHearts Connect Through Art
Par Jex Lopez July 2022Musical Milestones
Par Tanya Marie Silveira June 2022Promote the Goat Uplift
Par Josie Taoi April 2022The New Normal - A Trans-inclusive Women's Day Gig
Par Geetha Balakrishnan March 2022The strength and resilience of refugee women
Par Larissa Dulat February 2022Intercultural Connection Through Artwork
Par Emma Bromley January 2022Queer community photo sessions at The Bearded Tit
Par Dorcas Tang December 2021Vegepods for Disability Accommodation
Par Emily Griffith December 2021Overnight hiking and camping adventure
Par Neil McCulloch November 2021B-3-N
Par Jestika Chand and Jayce Carrano October 2021We All Care Days
Par Joanna Karalis September 2021Wilford Lane Garden
Par James Cottam September 2021Caretakers of Campbelltown
Par Gabriel Faatau'uu-Satiu August 2021Nile Football Program Balls Project
Par Daniel Apat July 2021A Brief Escape
Par Kate McLaren June 2021Didjurigur Netball - NAIDOC Cultural Celebration
Par Didjurigur Netball Club May 2021Nimrod Park Mural - John’s Garden
Par Sarah Ranner May 2021Furnish Our Therapy Space
Par Lilli Barto April 2021Elevating Refugee Entrepreneurs in Australia
Par Marjorie Tenchavez March 2021Music for All
Par Arya Pratinidhi Sabha of Australia February 2021Shade arbour for Plant Street Library
Par Kelly Robin Parkins December 2020The Reconnect Project
Par Annette Mayne December 2020The Girls' edit
Par Priyanka Bromhead November 2020Swim Sisters Surf Lifesaving for CaLD Communites
Par Yusra Metwally October 2020Coloured Aliens
Par Tiffany Wong August 2020Keeping Rough Sleepers Warm
Par Jackie Warn July 2020Quicksan
Par Ritwik Dasgupta June 2020Refloat the Titanic Volunteer Party
Par Jon Simpson May 2020Face Shields for Medical Staff
Par Naomi Brennan April 2020Lego for life
Par Paul Karbon March 2020LumiCrux
Par Melissa Silk and Annette Mauer February 2020Bottle Lid Project
Par Marijana Nad February 2020Community Weekend at the Beach
Par Naomi Smith January 2020Voices of Women CLEARWAY 2020
Par Lliane Clarke December 2019Refugee Driving program
Par Caroline Seaton November 2019TLC Choir for People with Dementia & Their Carers
Par Geena Cheung October 2019Pocket City Farms needs more TOOLS!
Par Michael Zagoridis August 2019Hair Aid Community Cuts
Par Selina Tomasich July 2019The Supertee project
Par Jason sotiris June 2019Hinchinbrook Hornets Open Women Team
Par Jax Cornforth May 2019Penrith Rainbow Families Playgroup
Par Simone Seeley April 2019Paddock to Plate Garden
Par Fiona Liddle March 2019CHIKAS
Par Genevieve Craig December 2018Music Therapy for the Elderly
Par paul trad November 2018Groove Rising
Par Asuka Hara October 2018DesignAbility
Par Mona September 2018Uz: The Town
Par Elizabeth Chua August 2018Let's Coach the Coach
Par Kristina Travers July 2018Collarenebri sporting Leadership Project
Par Paul Peters June 2018Inner West Beekeepers
Par Nathan Organ May 2018Riverwood Reaching
Par Alicia Boyden April 2018Heart and Soul Story's S.T.E.P
Par Samantha Felicity Heron March 2018The Monstrosities
Par Scott Parker February 2018FLEX
Par Cameron Stead January 2018Accessible Abstracts
Par M. Sunflower December 2017Inner West Tool Library
Par Amy Croucher November 2017Good to Go
Par Nanak Narulla October 2017Woolloomooloo Workshop Cafe
Par Lincoln Smith June 2017Musical Pool Noodle
Par Rachael Mackay May 2017Playgroups in The Park
Par Natasha Sitanala April 2017Pocket Sized Precincts
Par Rebecca Whittington March 2017Comedy Of Art
Par Ivan Levant February 2017TechFugees Australia #Hack4Refugees
Par Nicole Williamson December 2016Back to School with a Smile
Par Natalie Wall November 2016Uprock Urban Arts Festival
Par Matthew Peet September 2016HSCHero
Par Cindy July 2016NEWTOWN NETFLIX NIGHTS
Par Chloe Saintilan June 2016FoodFaith PlantingSeeds interfaith/cultural garden
Par Judy Friedlander May 2016The Super Pollinators - Aussie Native Bees
Par ABBIE MITCHELL April 2016Weekly Friday Lunch for Marginalised (at risk) You
Par Satha Arumanayagam March 2016Femme Fatale
Par Carissa Licciardello December 2015Young Aboriginal Mother’s and Children Mural
Par Norma Tracey November 2015YAMMP - Young Aborigianl Mothers Mural Project
Par Norma Tracey October 2015On The Floor
Par Ollie Henderson September 2015The Seaside Scavenge
Par Anna Jane Linke August 2015Disability Beyond Boundaries
Par Zhila Hasanloo July 2015Off The Wall Gallery
Par M. Sunflower Trad June 2015Biri Biri (Aboriginal Cafe)
Par Matthew Pettit May 2015Care to Converse
Par Jen Aboki April 2015Every Little Bit Helps
Par Katryna Robinson March 2015A Sense of Place: Sydney's Inner West
Par Lisa Cross November 2014Pizza in the Druitt
Par Melissa Murphy October 2014Mayors and MP's Morning Ride
Par Sarah Ladyman September 2014Primary Schoolers Programming with Bee-Bots
Par Keira Fotakopoulos August 2014TRAP'D - The Rhythmic Arts Project Downunder
Par Andrew Hewitt July 2014Arena Calcetto at The Rocks
Par Archrival May 2014OpenLingo
Par Leigh Harris April 2014Rooftop Garden for refugee's and asylum seekers
Par Rob Caslick February 2014The Equal Hearts Project
Par Fiona Hueston February 2014Meet the Maker
Par Youth Food Movement - Melissa Ronca & Alecia Wood October 2013#wildsydney
Par Diego BONETTO October 2013Re:make
Par Vanessa Berry September 2013Laneway Learning Sydney
Par Rick Benger August 2013Clovelly Road Better Block
Par Phil Stubbs July 2013BYOB - Bring your own Beamer
Par Tristan Deratz May 2013The Newsagency
Par Alison Avron Flett April 2013The Backyard Bus
Par Emma Cother (Emerald Violin) March 2013Truth or Dare Sydney
Par Leigh Russell February 2013Craft Bike
Par Kitiya Palaskas January 2013Sydney Small Bar Documentary
Par Mel November 2012Hoopy Happenings
Par Jewelz October 2012Pop up Ping Pong at Green Square
Par John O'Callaghan September 2012Guerilla Dinner - know your food, know your farmer
Par Youth Food Movement Sydney August 2012Under new Management
Par Josh Capelin July 2012Australian National Qualifier for breakdancing
Par Kristy Delaney April 2012Chalk & Talk
Par Briar Hayward March 2012Hungry Ghost sound walk
Par Mei Tsering February 2012The Dollar Shop
Par Louise Helliwell January 2012Guerilla Lego project
Par Nick Keilar November 2011Compos(ur)e
Par Peter Wildman October 2011Physique Aerobics
Par Kirk Docker September 2011World's smallest patch synthesizer
Par Aras Vaichas August 2011PAN magazine
Par Emma Dallas July 2011A Propos
We love funding projects that make Sydney more awesome.
The Awesome Foundation is a global network of micro-giving chapters that give $1,000 of their own money every month to awesome projects. We're the Sydney chapter!
We fund out-there ideas that make Sydney more awesome. The ideas sometimes aren't so absurd: they can be super sensible, too. The catch? There isn’t one: there are no strings attached.
Since our foundation in 2011, the Sydney chapter has received more than 1,600 micro-grant applications and given away over $100,000. We also helped put on the first-ever
Australian Awesome Summit. That's a whole lot of awesome.
7 Things Trustees Think Make an Awesome Grant App
- Events and projects that are inclusive, and go the extra mile to include underrepresented people in our community.
- Projects that otherwise may not be funded. We like to know we're making an impact.
- Projects that would otherwise attract funding from traditional philanthropy, or already partially funded by large grants makers are less likely to be funded by AF.
- Applications with a nice neat budget. It helps us to understand just how impactful this funding really is.
- Projects that activate public spaces, illuminate local talent, and tell untold stories, or reveal hidden potential.
- Applications for projects that are sustainable or can be repeated for success are always welcome. For example, buying sports equipment that will be used season after season.
- Projects that are likely to live on long after our grant are always a favourite - will your impact be felt for time to come? Please tell us about that.
Read our Applicant Guide for more tips on creating an awesome application. Generally, we avoid funding salaries, websites, travel and ideas where the budget doesn’t make it clear enough how the money will be used.
Application deadline
Applications close at 6.30pm on the first Wednesday of every month (but do check our Facebook in case we move the deadline a day or two). The winner will be notified on the night.
Join Awesome Foundation Sydney
We’d love to hear from you. Express interest in joining as a Trustee and we’ll be in touch when a spot opens.
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