Austin, TX
Christmas Joy for Kids
Por Jennifer Jones, Austin Mutual Aid December 2024Free Book Fairs for Disadvantaged Kids
Por Brooke Terry September 2024Adaptive Gardening Equipment for AISD Students
Por Amy Bartos August 2024Empowering Afghan Women Refugees through Literacy
Por Chichi Armstrong July 2024Shea Butter Babies:Celebrating Queer Black Artists
Por Kitty McLeod June 2024Composting for a Soil-Rich Farming Future
Por Hayley Wood February 2024Suicide Prevention Awareness & Knowledge in ASL
Por Allysa Dittmar January 2024Awesome Tummies of North Austin
Por Tom Cottar October 2023Editing equipment for Elementary School Newscast
Por Candi Johnson August 2023Street Medics Austin
Por Matthew Blaney July 2023Expansion of LGBTQIA+ Library for Austin's Youth
Por Christopher Dowling-Magill June 2023Touch the Art: An Interactive Art Exhibition
Por Natalie Earhart April 2023Creating Gifted Programs that Represent Austin
Por Shalelia Dillard March 2023Yellow Bike Project
Por Scott Menzies November 2022"Yamel Cucuy" by Glass Half Full Theatre
Por Caroline Reck July 2022Swing Equality for the Differently-Abled
Por Dr. Jacqueline Abernathy, MSSW, Ph.D., May 2022A Full Life for folks with IDD
Por Joseph Potts February 2022Equal Access to Abortion Care in Central Texas
Por The Bridge Collective December 2021Open Call: Showtune Open Mic Night
Por Susan Johnston Taylor November 2021Black and Brown Academics and Mentorship
Por Esther Nnali October 2021Summer Break Theatre
Por Maggie Bell (Meador) June 2021AAAFF Centerpiece Film Drive-In Live Performance
Por Hanna Huang April 2021Humanize Austin
Por Dusty Monroe February 2021Foundation Communities Holiday Assistance Program
Por Foundation Communities December 2020S.T.R.I.V.E. with Women's Storybook Project
Por Jill Gonzalez November 2020Enjambment, the zine
Por Spencer Dunkerley-Offor, Jeremy Gatson, Julian Perkins, Danny Martin & Melodi Ramirez October 2020Smash Dysphoria
Por E. Victoria August 2020COVID-19 Hunger Relief
Por Central Texas Food Bank April 2020ATX Interfaces: a radically inclusive art showcase
Por KB February 2020Linder Elementary Parenting Engagement Theater
Por Maria Hanley December 2019Let's Make our Mariachi Awesome
Por Diana Manzo November 2019East Austin Studio Tour: Art Roller Coaster
Por Kami T Wilt September 2019Giving Austin Labor Support
Por Morgan Miles July 2019Outsiders Anonymous
Por Adam Holt June 2019First Annual Short Play Festival
Por Simone Alexander, New Manifest Theatre April 2019SAGE Studio Spring Art Show
Por Katie Stahl March 2019Transgender Day of Visibility
Por Drew Riley February 2019Write! Austin
Por ND McCray January 2019The Tiny Banger
Por Alice Stanley December 2018Language Access for Christopher House
Por Hospice Austin November 2018Indigenous Peoples Day: A Decolonial Celebration
Por ALBERTO MEJIA October 2018We Can See Through Time
Por Rachel Wolfson Smith September 2018The Texas Justice Initiative
Por Eva Ruth Moravec July 2018Home Street Music
Por Vanessa Lively June 2018Austin Abortion Access Hackathon
Por Emily Loen May 2018LGBTQIA+ Youth Summit for Austin ISD
Por Max Casero, Communities in Schools April 2018Civics 101: Your Guide To A Functional Democracy
Por Amy Stansbury January 2018Making It at the Downs-Jones Library
Por Katrina Ashton at Huston-Tillotson University December 2017Family Holiday Superbowl
Por Kristin Davidson & Williamson County Juvenile Services November 2017Interwoven: A Community Weaving Project
Por Melissa Knight September 2017Gender Unbound
Por Drew Riley August 2017Into the Wilds: A Portrait Project
Por Jeanette Nevarez July 2017TWENTYEIGHT: a new play
Por Katherine Wilkinson June 2017A New Kiln, and a Fresh Start
Por Adam Yoo May 2017The Dobie Middle School Family Resource Center
Por Jose Carrasco April 2017A Girl Named Sue: world premiere
Por Color Arc Productions February 2017Wild Places
Por Joanna Garner January 2017Austin Cares Homeless Initiative
Por Sarah Ellis & Lauren Seiss December 2016Successful Smiles of Texas
Por Alethea Flores November 2016Plastic Planet Animated PSA
Por Calder Kamin October 201610th Annual KreweDCM Halloween Parade
Por Christopher McMillan September 2016Austin Archives Bazaar 2016
Por Kristy Sorensen July 2016arcade of anything
Por JUEGOS RANCHEROS June 2016Party World Rasslin'
Por Timothy Faust May 2016Performance-In-A-Box: Storytelling for Seniors
Por Maggie Gallant & CASACA April 2016CaveCast: Stories from Austin High Schoolers
Por Katie Angermeier Haab & Austin Bat Cave March 2016Ravaan Persian Dance Company
Por Geeti Mahajan February 2016Shakespeare: REPRESENT
Por Shrewd Productions January 2016Our Taco House Co-op
Por Raquel Banda & Shirley Trevino December 2015RE Source
Por Forklift Danceworks November 2015Adventure Therapy for Homeless Families
Por Annette Pelletier October 2015CLAWstin: Austin Collective of Lady Arm Wrestlers
Por Amanda Soisson September 2015Anthropos All-Stars CD Project
Por Dylan Jones, Anthropos Arts July 2015Circus of Hope
Por Kenneth Pierce June 2015The Quality or Condition
Por Lauren Gurgiolo, Backstop Art Collective May 2015Freehand Arts Project: Bringing the creative arts to those behind bars
Por Kelsey Shipman, The Freehand Arts Project April 2015Ballenarca: The Whale Ark
Por Cheraya Esters March 2015RE/CONNECT: Examining intimacy in a digital age
Por Kristen Weller February 2015BLXPLTN
Por Katherine Quinones January 2015The Gay Wax Museum
Por Silky Shoemaker December 2014Inside Books Project: promoting literacy for prisoners
Por Jane Chamberlain, Inside Books Project November 2014Bilingual books for kids, by kids
Por Jennifer Siviter October 2014The Krewe DCM Halloween Parade
Por Krewe DCM & HONK!TX September 2014KOOP: Bringing the power of radio to the people
Por KOOP 91.7 FM August 2014Spaces for reflection at Austin's green cemetery
Por Ellen MacDonald July 2014HOPE Outdoor Gallery: Showcasing Austin street art
Por Andi Scull Cheatham, HOPE Outdoor Gallery June 2014Third Coast Visions: Mobile Geodesic Dome Gallery
Por Chancellor Roberts, Third Coast Visions Art Collective May 2014Spoiler Alert: This Is How My Life Ends
Por Jay Byrd April 2014SKAM mural rehab: Preserving a piece of history
Por Lindsay Palmer, Creative Action March 2014Old Books for New Teachers
Por Stephanie Noll February 2014Elementary Science Discovery
Por Amy Quartaro January 2014The Texas Observer: Reaching Millions
Por Piper Nelson December 2013Legends for Youth baseball clinic for kids with disabilities
Por John Lorek November 2013Attendance Records: Inspiring Austin's next generation of musicians
Por Jenna Carrens, Attendance Records October 2013Citizen Node
Por Amy Cavender August 2013A Dance to Remember
Por Maggie Gallant of CASACA July 2013Powering a Robot with a Control Moment Gyroscope
Por Joshua Stricker and Marek Travnikar June 2013Queerbomb
Por Beth Schindler May 2013Performing Possibilities: Life after Prison
Por Katherine Craft, Conspire Theatre April 2013Have A Ball
Por Jackie Garrett March 2013Environmental Remediation Thru Hydrilla Harvesting
Por Michael Jochum February 2013Housewarming Gifts for the Previously Homeless
Por Bryce Yeazell January 2013Cooking Up English
Por Casey Smith December 2012HONK!TX: Festival of Community Street Bands
Por HONK!TX November 2012Austin Sea Veggies
Por Lewis Weil October 2012Color Squad: Youth transforming public spaces
Por Lindsay Palmer September 2012Burnet-Ohlen Treescape
Por Steven Zettner August 2012Urban Nature. Urban Kids.
Por Bernadette Noll July 2012Astronomy for underserved populations
Por Amy Jackson June 2012Slow Cooking for a Fast Food World
Por Beth Rowan May 2012Children of Bagbanistan
Por Lenell Ripley April 2012The Pay Phone Revival Project
Por Bridget Quinn March 2012Sobre Nós
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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