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Awesome Foundation Toronto
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The Awesome Foundation in the Greater Toronto Area · funding $1000 no-strings-attached grants to make our communities more awesome · got an idea? we'd love to hear!
It's SCARY how these things just creep up on you! 🎃
Apply for a $1000 no-strings-attached cash grant to fund your idea and make this city a better/funner/weirder place!
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October 14, 2025 at 11:02 PM
We are very excited to announce this month’s grant recipient: Sleepless Cinema- a new Toronto-based film club! Their first screening/panel discussion was “Night of the Living Dead: Examining Xenophobia Through Horror”. Check them out! sleeplesscinema.ca

www.awesomefoundation.org/en/projects/...
April 28, 2025 at 1:21 AM
Plus bonus remarks by the local Consul General of the Netherlands! It's heartening to hear how his country went through the same transformation from car congestion to a healthier multi-mode society decades ago that we here push for today. It *is* possible.
October 3, 2024 at 10:55 PM
We got to join last week's inauguration at City Hall of Toronto's new Bike Mayor, a position designed to officially advocate for safe roads and bike infrastructure 🙌

So excited to have Alison Stewart as a passionate, thoughtful representative for bikers!
October 3, 2024 at 10:51 PM
Such a pleasure and honour to see Mayor Olivia Chow visit Art on Barton yesterday, our Awesome Foundation Toronto grant winner for May!

Congrats to the team on such a great project and vibrant contribution to both our city's artistic tapestry and our urgent housing discussion 🎨🏠
August 11, 2024 at 4:14 PM
Want to make a difference in your community this year and help bring exciting projects to life?

We're also looking for trustees to help fund projects or coordinate our PR/communications!

Drop us a DM, we'd love to hear from you 🙂
August 10, 2024 at 3:08 PM
Have an amazing idea that $1000 could make happen here in the GTA? Awesome Foundation Toronto applications are open for our monthly grants—we'd love to see your idea become reality!

www.awesomefoundation.org/chapters/tor...
August 10, 2024 at 3:06 PM
Check out Art on Barton, our May grant winner! They've turned a house in Toronto slated for demolition into an immersive, ephemeral mural exhibition at 91 Barton Ave:
August 5, 2024 at 11:06 AM
The first mural just went up at our latest grant winner, Art on Barton! A team of muralists are transforming a soon-to-be demolished house in Toronto into an interactive, ephemeral art exhibit:

www.instagram.com/reel/C83ARgL...
July 1, 2024 at 4:40 PM
Awesome Foundation Toronto turns one this month, and we are thrilled to announce our May grant winner, Art on Barton 🎂

Toronto muralists will transform a house scheduled for demolition into an art experience, each room its own immersive mural installation.

www.awesomefoundation.org/en/projects/...
June 15, 2024 at 4:58 PM
Every month we give a $1,000 grant to an awesome project that helps make Toronto a better place. If you have an awesome idea, we'd love to hear from you! Apply by Thursday, March 28th to be considered for our March 2024 grant.

www.awesomefoundation.org/en/chapters/toronto
March 22, 2024 at 7:25 PM
Our February grant winner is Cornell Community Iftaar!

Cornell Public School's second annual community iftaar will provide an opportunity for their community to come together to share a meal which marks the breaking of the fast during Ramadan.

www.awesomefoundation.org/en/projects/...
March 14, 2024 at 8:06 PM
Our first grant winner of 2024 is Project Valentine!

Project Valentine is an annual event where student volunteers create handmade cards which are sent to brighten the day of front-line workers such as paramedics and hospital workers!

www.awesomefoundation.org/en/projects/...
February 9, 2024 at 6:30 PM
We are looking for project-funding trustees who can contribute $100 towards our monthly grant, and an administrative trustee to help out with scheduling meetings, taking minutes, and communications.

DM or email us at toronto@awesomefoundation.org!

awesomefoundation.org/en/chapters/...
January 9, 2024 at 11:39 PM
Want to make a difference in your community this year & help bring exciting projects to life?

We're searching for trustees to join our team! Trustees meet monthly to pick an amazing project and jointly give a $1,000 grant to help good things happen in Toronto.
January 9, 2024 at 11:38 PM
Want to help great, local projects become a reality? AF Toronto is looking for a new trustee!

We meet once a month to pick an amazing project and jointly give a grant to help good things happen here.

If you're interested, reply here or email us at toronto@awesomefoundation.org!
November 28, 2023 at 5:31 PM
What could you do with $1000 to make Toronto a better place? Every month we give a grant to a local project — if you have an awesome idea, we'd love to hear from you!

Apply here: awesometoronto.ca
November 26, 2023 at 3:45 PM
We're so excited to announce the winner of our September grant: The Sonar Network!

The Sonar Network is a Toronto-based award-winning independent podcast network featuring local performers, writers, producers, comedians, and editors.

Learn more: awesomefoundation.org/en/projects/...
October 15, 2023 at 4:55 PM
Want to help amazing, community-level projects in the Toronto area?

Each month, we pool $100 each from a set of trustees to support an amazing, community-oriented project, and we're looking for new trustees, both to help fund and to help to run our chapter a few hours a month.
August 14, 2023 at 3:52 PM
What would you do with $1000 to make the Toronto area better?

Every month, Awesome Foundation Toronto funds a great project with a $1000 grant to do something that makes a difference!

If you have an awesome idea, we'd love to hear from you!

https://awesometoronto.ca
August 10, 2023 at 5:46 PM