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Warm Paws NSW - Being Pawesome!!
Por Kathryn Hacio December 2024Maxie's Polaroids
Por Max Truong November 2024Ice cream, you scream, we all scream for ice cream
Por Danielle Courtney October 2024Feeling the Wind in Their Hair
Por Kerrie Barker October 2024Studio Artes Visual Art Program: Art Supplies
Por Bexie Neeley October 2024Affordable Headshots for Artists
Por Emma Wright September 2024Anomalies
Por Jordyn Fulcher August 2024KinHub
Por Corinne Smith June 2024Our Stories Through Theatre
Por Tanja Djordjevic May 2024The Good Life: Voices from Sydney's Streets [wt]
Por Jordan Grantham April 2024If/When
Por Jasmine Hair March 2024MYST Madi Gras parade screening party
Por Flinn Donovan February 2024Kangaroo & Joey Rehabilitation Enclosure
Por Jill Gilbert February 2024Deb's Pouring and Craft Sanctuary
Por Debbi-Ann Cain November 2023Pride Morris
Por Rosie Wylie October 2023WWYW Survivor Healing Groups
Por Brittany Cozic September 2023Sydney Pollinator Lab
Por Alex Crowe August 2023Back to Birdy
Por Sean Landis July 2023Deaf Festival Sydney
Por Madeleine Uaine June 2023The Bass Hill Pre Kindy Program
Por mecca laalaa June 2023Multilingual storytellers ready to fly
Por Lillian Rodrigues-Pang May 2023Free Lightsabers in Darling Harbour
Por Timothy Yang April 2023DSA Sydney Rashies
Por Shane Henn March 2023NWME Inc - Nurrgingy Miniature Railway
Por Jennifer Barnett-Baistow February 2023Art Kits for Kids & Women in Refuges
Por Pamela Woods December 2022Dharawal Language Book and Gift Pack
Por Aunty Donna & Sutherland Shire Reconciliation Group November 2022Coogee Surf Life Saving Community: Beach Safety
Por Adam Cohen (UTS) October 2022NICI Gadigal Skills for Success Program
Por Nathan Lovett October 2022Yanadi Ladies Group
Por Wendy Anne French September 2022Holroyd High School Multicultural Day
Por Courtney Palucci September 2022OddHearts Connect Through Art
Por Jex Lopez July 2022Musical Milestones
Por Tanya Marie Silveira June 2022Promote the Goat Uplift
Por Josie Taoi April 2022The New Normal - A Trans-inclusive Women's Day Gig
Por Geetha Balakrishnan March 2022The strength and resilience of refugee women
Por Larissa Dulat February 2022Intercultural Connection Through Artwork
Por Emma Bromley January 2022Queer community photo sessions at The Bearded Tit
Por Dorcas Tang December 2021Vegepods for Disability Accommodation
Por Emily Griffith December 2021Overnight hiking and camping adventure
Por Neil McCulloch November 2021B-3-N
Por Jestika Chand and Jayce Carrano October 2021We All Care Days
Por Joanna Karalis September 2021Wilford Lane Garden
Por James Cottam September 2021Caretakers of Campbelltown
Por Gabriel Faatau'uu-Satiu August 2021Nile Football Program Balls Project
Por Daniel Apat July 2021A Brief Escape
Por Kate McLaren June 2021Didjurigur Netball - NAIDOC Cultural Celebration
Por Didjurigur Netball Club May 2021Nimrod Park Mural - John’s Garden
Por Sarah Ranner May 2021Furnish Our Therapy Space
Por Lilli Barto April 2021Elevating Refugee Entrepreneurs in Australia
Por Marjorie Tenchavez March 2021Music for All
Por Arya Pratinidhi Sabha of Australia February 2021Shade arbour for Plant Street Library
Por Kelly Robin Parkins December 2020The Reconnect Project
Por Annette Mayne December 2020The Girls' edit
Por Priyanka Bromhead November 2020Swim Sisters Surf Lifesaving for CaLD Communites
Por Yusra Metwally October 2020Coloured Aliens
Por Tiffany Wong August 2020Keeping Rough Sleepers Warm
Por Jackie Warn July 2020Quicksan
Por Ritwik Dasgupta June 2020Refloat the Titanic Volunteer Party
Por Jon Simpson May 2020Face Shields for Medical Staff
Por Naomi Brennan April 2020Lego for life
Por Paul Karbon March 2020LumiCrux
Por Melissa Silk and Annette Mauer February 2020Bottle Lid Project
Por Marijana Nad February 2020Community Weekend at the Beach
Por Naomi Smith January 2020Voices of Women CLEARWAY 2020
Por Lliane Clarke December 2019Refugee Driving program
Por Caroline Seaton November 2019TLC Choir for People with Dementia & Their Carers
Por Geena Cheung October 2019Pocket City Farms needs more TOOLS!
Por Michael Zagoridis August 2019Hair Aid Community Cuts
Por Selina Tomasich July 2019The Supertee project
Por Jason sotiris June 2019Hinchinbrook Hornets Open Women Team
Por Jax Cornforth May 2019Penrith Rainbow Families Playgroup
Por Simone Seeley April 2019Paddock to Plate Garden
Por Fiona Liddle March 2019CHIKAS
Por Genevieve Craig December 2018Music Therapy for the Elderly
Por paul trad November 2018Groove Rising
Por Asuka Hara October 2018DesignAbility
Por Mona September 2018Uz: The Town
Por Elizabeth Chua August 2018Let's Coach the Coach
Por Kristina Travers July 2018Collarenebri sporting Leadership Project
Por Paul Peters June 2018Inner West Beekeepers
Por Nathan Organ May 2018Riverwood Reaching
Por Alicia Boyden April 2018Heart and Soul Story's S.T.E.P
Por Samantha Felicity Heron March 2018The Monstrosities
Por Scott Parker February 2018FLEX
Por Cameron Stead January 2018Accessible Abstracts
Por M. Sunflower December 2017Inner West Tool Library
Por Amy Croucher November 2017Good to Go
Por Nanak Narulla October 2017Woolloomooloo Workshop Cafe
Por Lincoln Smith June 2017Musical Pool Noodle
Por Rachael Mackay May 2017Playgroups in The Park
Por Natasha Sitanala April 2017Pocket Sized Precincts
Por Rebecca Whittington March 2017Comedy Of Art
Por Ivan Levant February 2017TechFugees Australia #Hack4Refugees
Por Nicole Williamson December 2016Back to School with a Smile
Por Natalie Wall November 2016Uprock Urban Arts Festival
Por Matthew Peet September 2016HSCHero
Por Cindy July 2016NEWTOWN NETFLIX NIGHTS
Por Chloe Saintilan June 2016FoodFaith PlantingSeeds interfaith/cultural garden
Por Judy Friedlander May 2016The Super Pollinators - Aussie Native Bees
Por ABBIE MITCHELL April 2016Weekly Friday Lunch for Marginalised (at risk) You
Por Satha Arumanayagam March 2016Femme Fatale
Por Carissa Licciardello December 2015Young Aboriginal Mother’s and Children Mural
Por Norma Tracey November 2015YAMMP - Young Aborigianl Mothers Mural Project
Por Norma Tracey October 2015On The Floor
Por Ollie Henderson September 2015The Seaside Scavenge
Por Anna Jane Linke August 2015Disability Beyond Boundaries
Por Zhila Hasanloo July 2015Off The Wall Gallery
Por M. Sunflower Trad June 2015Biri Biri (Aboriginal Cafe)
Por Matthew Pettit May 2015Care to Converse
Por Jen Aboki April 2015Every Little Bit Helps
Por Katryna Robinson March 2015A Sense of Place: Sydney's Inner West
Por Lisa Cross November 2014Pizza in the Druitt
Por Melissa Murphy October 2014Mayors and MP's Morning Ride
Por Sarah Ladyman September 2014Primary Schoolers Programming with Bee-Bots
Por Keira Fotakopoulos August 2014TRAP'D - The Rhythmic Arts Project Downunder
Por Andrew Hewitt July 2014Arena Calcetto at The Rocks
Por Archrival May 2014OpenLingo
Por Leigh Harris April 2014Rooftop Garden for refugee's and asylum seekers
Por Rob Caslick February 2014The Equal Hearts Project
Por Fiona Hueston February 2014Meet the Maker
Por Youth Food Movement - Melissa Ronca & Alecia Wood October 2013#wildsydney
Por Diego BONETTO October 2013Re:make
Por Vanessa Berry September 2013Laneway Learning Sydney
Por Rick Benger August 2013Clovelly Road Better Block
Por Phil Stubbs July 2013BYOB - Bring your own Beamer
Por Tristan Deratz May 2013The Newsagency
Por Alison Avron Flett April 2013The Backyard Bus
Por Emma Cother (Emerald Violin) March 2013Truth or Dare Sydney
Por Leigh Russell February 2013Craft Bike
Por Kitiya Palaskas January 2013Sydney Small Bar Documentary
Por Mel November 2012Hoopy Happenings
Por Jewelz October 2012Pop up Ping Pong at Green Square
Por John O'Callaghan September 2012Guerilla Dinner - know your food, know your farmer
Por Youth Food Movement Sydney August 2012Under new Management
Por Josh Capelin July 2012Australian National Qualifier for breakdancing
Por Kristy Delaney April 2012Chalk & Talk
Por Briar Hayward March 2012Hungry Ghost sound walk
Por Mei Tsering February 2012The Dollar Shop
Por Louise Helliwell January 2012Guerilla Lego project
Por Nick Keilar November 2011Compos(ur)e
Por Peter Wildman October 2011Physique Aerobics
Por Kirk Docker September 2011World's smallest patch synthesizer
Por Aras Vaichas August 2011PAN magazine
Por Emma Dallas July 2011Sobre Nós
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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