Put Some Awesome on Your Calendar

  Awesome Pittsburgh Awards and Networking Party Monday July 29, 6:30-8:30pm Bayardstown Social Club, 3008 Penn Ave., Pittsburgh PA 15201 Join Awesome Pittsburgh at Bayardstown Social Club in the Strip District to celebrate our recent winners, applicants, and all the awesome projects and ideas in Pittsburgh! While you’re with us, meet our Trustees, learn more about…

Awesome Award Party April 30

Need your quarterly allotment of an accumulated assemblage of awesomeness? Then come on down to Awesome Pittsburgh’s next public party: Tuesday, April 30, 6:30-8:30pm Union Project 801 N. Negley Ave., Pittsburgh, PA 15206 Join our trustees and friends in celebrating recent $1,000 award winners, applicants, and all the awesome projects and ideas in Pittsburgh. Our 15th award winner,…

Announcing our 14th Winner: Juice Up 412!

More than just an awesome way to quench your thirst, Juice Up 412 is a social enterprise that uses their products – delicious and unique fruit and vegetable juices – to educate underserved communities about health, wellness and nutrition as well as food justice. Juice Up has already generated buzz with their pop-up juice bars…

Join us for Awesome Pittsburgh’s 1st Birthday

We grow up so fast.  On Thursday, January 31, 2013, please  join Awesome Pittsburgh Trustees, awardees, and friends to celebrate Awesome Pittsburgh’s first birthday! When: Thursday, January 31st from 7 – 9 pm Where: AVA Lounge, 126 S. Highland Avenue, East Liberty (map) Visit our Facebook page to let us know you are coming, or just…

Sew Awesome: Announcing our November winner, Urban Stitches

With all the buzz around the “maker” movement, it’s easy to forget that for generations, sewing machines allowed people to dream up and make new creations in their own homes everyday. Our November winner, Urban Stitches, has a mission to reintroduce sewing to the young people of Pittsburgh. “The goal of Urban Stitches is for young people…

Deadline Changed to 1st of Each Month

Our monthly deadline for applications has been moved from the 15th to the 1st (by Midnight). We’ll still announce the winner by the end of the month. If you’ve submitted over the past 4-5 weeks, don’t worry. We’re holding on to those applications and will consider them with others coming in by Nov. 1.  As…

An Awesome Internship

How often do you get to include the word ‘awesome‘ on your resume? Here is your chance! We’re looking for a passionate, organized, independent and innovative individual to join us this fall as the Awesome (Marketing and Events) Intern. Here’s what we can offer: A unique experience to work with an entrepreneurial group of individuals to…

Join Us at our Sept. 17 Party

Where can you meet a cross-section of Pittsburgh’s creative minds, social innovators, community champions, and passionate entrepreneurs? At Awesome Pittsburgh’s next party of course: Awesome Pittsburgh Award Winner Celebration Monday, Sept. 17, 7pm-9pm Bar Marco, 2216 Penn Avenue, Pittsburgh We’d love to have you join us to meet cool people (likely cooler than us), be inspired by our…

Our June Winner: The First Bytes Society

To so many of us, computers are arcane devices that other people program for us so that we can read our email, tweet our support for the Pirates, and watch Pittsburgh Dad videos. In reality though, anybody can learn to code once you realize that, at its core, programming is simply a process of communicating…

Come to Awesome Party #3! June 4 at Future Tenant

Join the Awesome Pittsburgh Trustees at the third-ever Awesome Pittsburgh Party! Now with extra awesomeness at Future Tenant!  Monday, June 4, 2012 7:00pm until 9:00pm 819 Penn Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA At the party, we’ll: Announce our May 2012 grant winner, Give updates on March and April awards, and Hold an awesome competition with 2 winners/prizes – one…

Our April Winner: Exquisite Machine

It’s often said that we all have a story to tell.  Well, Pittsburgh, here is your chance to contribute a sentence of your own to a much bigger story, thanks to our April winner: Exquisite Machine, an interactive creative writing project that will engage the community in collective storytelling. Deanna Mulye, creator/project director of Exquisite Machine, describes the goals…