FARM LA’S LIMA BEANS PROJECT
If it were up to Farm LA, the humble lima bean would be the official vegetable of Los Angeles. The healthy, filling veggie grows like a champ in LA, and the non-profit’s plan to create new, sustainable lima bean farms is the winner of our March grant!
Farm LA is a local 501(c)3 dedicated to rescuing unbuildable land..
Awesome Newcastle One Year Anniversary: Giving Away $4,000!
What better way to celebrate our anniversary than giving away $4,000 to a business that will use it to make the world a better place? Last Thursday we did just this! We called on Novocastrians to join us at The Lock Up arts space to recognise awesome business initiatives and give away stacks of cash.
Guests and boar..
Project Cold Days
Cold Days is a documentary about homelessness during the cold Ottawan winters. If you’re picturing an Australian winter, think again. We’re talking knee-deep in a snowy blizzard winter.
Stephen R. Coleman and his team have been working on the documentary, unfunded, for over two years so the recent $1,000 grant from ..
Badass Boarders
Kasley Killam of San Francisco is bringing it with an awesome initiative called Badass Boarders, who are Awesomen SF’s latest grant winner.
Simply put, Badass Boarders are a group of women learning to skateboard together. However if you dive a little deeper you’ll see a group of women in the community that are dedic..
Behind the scenes with AwesomeNTL
Let’s talk Awesome Newcastle and break down what goes on behind the scenes.
Each month we get an array of amazing applications from community groups, small businesses and individuals from all over the Hunter who would like a hand (in the form of $1,000) to get their projects up and running.
As much as we’d like to ..
Cyber Seniors
Let’s face it, we’ve all shared the frustration at some point when trying to teach either a parent or friend, who may be slightly older, to use a smartphone, tablet or computer.
As we are living in an increasingly techno-based society, people need to adapt to new technology to survive. It sounds drastic but how else..
Awesome Newcastle August Winner – Frontline Yoga
Our August round of Awesome Newcastle kicked off last Thursday night at The Village of Useful. There was a particular energy in the room that one can only describe as ‘money’.
It could be that we did AwesomeNTL a little differently this round, or maybe it was the awesome board members that were excited to give away ..
Murals for a Queens Supportive Housing Facility
We’re always amazed by the awesomeness that spreads far and wide around this amazing globe of ours. Recently the Awesome Chapter of New York City have gotten behind a creative project for a Queens based supportive housing facility.
The building has been designed by Amie Gross Architects (AGA) who are working in coll..
An update from our Awesome April winner – Helpful Love
If you’re an avid fan of Awesome Newcastle, which we know you all are, then you would know that we love to check-in with past grant winners.
In April, Kim Oakhill rose to the occasion to passionately talk about Helpful Love, an online community that seeks to provide useful gifts for people in difficult times.
The i..
An update from our May winner, To the Edge High Performance Centre.
To the Edge High Performance Centre, located in Cardiff, has the goal of hosting, training and producing world-class athletes to showcase the elite level of sportsmen and women right here in Newcastle.
The man behind this big dream is Daniel Moffatt-Martin who took home the $1,000 cash grant from Awesome Newcastle b..