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03/20/2024

⚡The Con Edison Power Up Neighborhood Match is back! ⚡

Do you have a project that makes your neighborhood greener with parks, gardens, or trees? Are you beautifying your community with art? Does your project solve a local environmental issue?

Good news! Up to $3,000 in match funding is available for community projects related to environmental issues, green space assets, and the arts in New York City and Westchester County.

Learn all about the Con Edison Power Up Neighborhood Match and get started at https://hubs.li/Q02q7kfg0.

03/04/2024

Since launching in December 2019, Providence Streets Coalition has successfully advanced safety, equity, and sustainability in Providence, RI city streets. Their alliance of 70 community organizations, local businesses, schools, neighborhood and professional associations, and thousands of engaged individuals has broadened and deepened the local movement for people-friendly streets.

Providence Streets Coalition successfully raised $55,627 on ioby's crowdfunding platform for education, advocacy and outreach around sustainable and equitable transportation systems in Providence.

Active transit is centered in transportation equity: the simple but radical idea that every person has a right to get around. Check out our free Active Transit Toolkit at https://hubs.li/Q02n5z350.

02/25/2024

Trikes for Tikes, a program in Memphis' HUG parks, launched with a mission to support community healing after a tragic bike accident, improve bike safety, and embracing Memphis' rich Black history by reviving the original African American bicycle rodeo.

Jo Ann Street successfully raised $2,875 on ioby's crowdfunding platform for a Bike Rodeo event that helped organize families and others in the community around public space and transportation.

ioby's Active Transit Toolkit is live and features community projects like Jo Ann's. Active transit is centered in transportation equity: the simple but radical idea that every person has a right to get around. Check out our free toolkit: https://hubs.li/Q02m8hBq0.

02/18/2024

Many scientists and activists have declared this decade “make or break” for climate action, and if you step outside, it is not difficult to understand why. Whether you’ve experienced extreme heat waves or intensifying drought, it’s clear that the climate crisis is already having a tangible impact on the world around us. With such high stakes, it is essential for groups—both small and large—to take action for a liveable future. However, such action can often feel daunting. The climate crisis is unfurling at a global scale, we might ask ourselves, so is it really possible to make change at the local level? Local action can help us discover solutions that can have a much larger impact than we might originally believe. Plus, it allows us to embody the future we hope to live in, resisting despair and embracing a better world.

If you’re looking for some inspiration, here are 10 climate-conscious projects we love. Read the full story about these projects ➡️ https://hubs.li/Q02lr0Dd0

02/14/2024

📣 Report from the field 📣

Since the Northwest Arkansas Neighborhood Match Program launched, we’ve seen inspiring neighborhood change in Benton and Washington Counties. Learn more about community leaders making positive change in Arkansas, and get a few ideas along the way: https://hubs.li/Q02l0Pss0

What is the Northwest Arkansas Neighborhood Match Program?

The Northwest Arkansas Match Program doubles donations up to $15,000 for all projects in Benton and Washington Counties. This match program specifically focuses on projects that utilize indoor or outdoor public space for social good. Think: public parks, community centers, playgrounds, schools, community gardens, and more. It’s simple: for every dollar raised ioby, in partnership with the Walton Family Foundation, will automatically add another dollar to your fundraiser, up to $1,000 per donor!

Already have an idea and ready to get started in Arkansas' Benton or Washington County? Learn more and get started here: https://hubs.li/Q02l0Mjc0

01/19/2024

Ride On! Bike Co-Op is much more than a bicycle shop that repairs, sells, and rents bicycles--they also advocate for safer streets in Los Angeles, CA. They work with different organizations and local politicians to make the streets safer for both pedestrians and cyclists.

Ade Neff has run several crowdfunding campaigns on ioby, starting with a $1,745 fundraiser in 2015 to help secure a space for the co-op.

ioby's Active Transit Toolkit is live! Active transit is centered in transportation equity: the simple but radical idea that every person has a right to get around. Check out our free toolkit at https://hubs.li/Q02h4Bj20.

12/30/2023

Every year at ioby, we are in awe of the neighborhood projects that leaders create to strengthen their communities. As we celebrate our 15th year, that couldn’t be more true.

In every inch of the country, people have deepened their neighborhood bonds through ground-breaking ideas from free jazz concerts in Northwest Arkansas to storytelling for climate resiliency in frontline communities worldwide. Here are 8 of the crowdfunding projects we loved to see this year—all of them are still raising funds! If you feel inspired, share and donate at https://hubs.li/Q02dXRv00.

BONUS: You can use these crowdfunding examples to brainstorm projects for your own community in the New Year. Get started at https://hubs.li/Q02dXR7L0.

12/10/2023

It’s the end of the year, which means gathering with friends and family, celebrating the holidays, and—yes—fundraising. 30% of all annual fundraising happens during the month of December. This makes the last four weeks of the year crucial for next year’s success, but that pressure can be overwhelming. How do you know even know where to begin? With limited time and capacity, what’s most important to focus on? What’s the best way to demonstrate all that you’ve accomplished this year?

In ioby’s Comprehensive Guide to End-of-Year Fundraising, we’ve compiled a checklist of everything you need to make the most of this month. With decades of combined experience, our coaches help ioby leaders get their projects funded year round. If you have any questions, don’t hesitate! We’re here to help you spark transformation (and fundraise) in December and beyond. Full guide at https://hubs.li/Q02cB5N10.

11/20/2023

Are you passionate about community-led change in Pittsburgh? Apply to be ioby's next Pittsburgh Senior Action Strategist!

The Senior Strategist will build on an 8-year foundation of work to cultivate and support resident leaders and nonprofit partners in Pittsburgh, PA. This role will recruit community projects to fundraise on the ioby platform, provide customized one-on-one fundraising coaching to project leaders, and embed ioby’s crowdfunding curriculum into nonprofit programming throughout Pittsburgh.

We anticipate this position will start in February 2024. Apply at https://hubs.li/Q029r9jl0

11/15/2023

Announcing our new Active Transit Toolkit! If you've ever wanted to make a difference in how your community gets around, we're excited to share a new toolkit. Meet the local leaders from ioby's community who are making their streets safer, their communities greener, and their transportation more equitable! More at https://hubs.li/Q028ZvNP0.

Special thanks to the Summit Foundation for making this toolkit possible.

11/03/2023

We at ioby, like many in our communities, have felt helpless, angry and sickened by the recent violence in Palestine and Israel. This crisis is many miles from the neighborhoods where ioby works, and yet it has felt close to home for so many of us.

Some of our neighbors have lost loved ones, or have lost sleep waiting to hear from those they care about. Our neighborhoods across the country have seen a spike in hate speech and violence against our Arab, Muslim, Palestinian and Jewish neighbors. Some have felt fearful for their safety, because their identities put them at risk of being targeted by hate in their own neighborhoods. And for many, the images of endless war, cruelty and oppression are as familiar as they are traumatic.

As ioby works towards being an anti-racist organization, we work intentionally with BIPOC and immigrant communities fighting for their own liberation and self-determination, understanding that their liberation is bound with ours.

We stand against racism and white supremacy in all its forms, and we call for an end to the violence against - and oppression of - the Palestinian people as an extension of these values. We see the oppression of the Palestinian people as deeply linked to the ongoing, systemic oppression of Black and Brown people within our own communities in the US. And we see this violence as inextricably connected to the violence and hate directed toward our Black, Indigenous, Muslim, Arab, Asian/Pacific lslander, Latinx, Immigrant and Jewish neighbors.

The killing, silencing, intimidating and disempowering of any group of people is never a solution, and war and ongoing violence is never justice. In this moment, we choose to look to leaders who are working for peace, liberation, self-determination, healing, and cross-cultural understanding in their own communities.

Alongside our community, ioby will continue to work towards the world we want: a world where all our neighbors - down the block and around the world - can be free from fear, oppression, and violence. We invite you to join us in this work.

We at ioby, like many in our communities, have felt helpless, angry and sickened by the recent violence in Palestine and Israel. This crisis is many miles from the neighborhoods where ioby works, and yet it has felt close to home for so many of us. Some of our neighbors have lost loved ones, or … ...

10/14/2023

❗Deadline to apply is Monday Oct 16th❗If you are a skilled fundraiser interested in powering a movement of positive civic change, apply to be ioby's next Vice President of Philanthropy! Learn more and apply at ioby.org/jobs.