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Start a project in Pittsburgh

On ioby, anyone with a great idea for creating positive change in their neighborhood can raise funds, find volunteers and promote their project. When you fundraise for your community project on ioby, you can:

  • Receive one-on-one fundraising and implementation coaching

  • Collect tax-deductible donations

  • Have ioby act as your project’s fiscal sponsor

  • Find new volunteers

  • Join us for grassroots fundraising trainings and workshops

Submit your idea and ioby will reach out to support you on your journey to making positive change in your Pittsburgh neighborhood

You'll have direct access to a dedicated fundraising coach who will be there with you every step of the way while you fundraise. Once you've shared your great idea with us, ioby's Leader Success Team will help you create your crowdfunding page, strategize a plan for crowdfunding success, and help you out anytime you get stuck. Learn more about our Leader Success Strategists.

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About ioby Pittsburgh

Pittsburgh is pretty special. From 446 bridges to 90 neighborhoods, there’s a lot to love about the mighty Steel City. But most of all: Pittsburghers don’t wait around to get good done. Since we began our on-the-ground work in Pittsburgh, ioby has collaborated with over 288 resident leaders as they plan, crowdfund, and build positive change in neighborhoods all across the city and region. With a median donation of $50, Pittsburghers working with ioby have raised over $1,124,358 in small donations to make our neighborhoods thriving and full of opportunity for all.

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Donate to a project in your Pittsburgh Neighborhood

  • Feeding Hope in Manchester

    We are here to provide hope and encouragement to come into community and realize they are not alone.  

    NEEDS: $0 of 6,140
  • Children Play in Garfield

    Give To Garfield

    Donating to the "Give to Garfield" campaign helps vulnerable residents pay rent, keep their utilities on, make home repairs, and access better education and job opportunities. 

    NEEDS: $0 of 3,900 + Volunteers

  • NurturHer

    We would like to give personalized and COVID-safe contactless service to mothers at their most vulnerable time in their lives.

    NEEDS: $0 of 5,000

  • The Shelter Project

    Safe Housing & Employment Services Leading towards Economic Restoration for the homeless.

    NEEDS: $0 of 5,000

  • PRWA Spring Thaw Flash Campaign

    The snow is finally melting! With a generous matching fund from IOBY, every donation up to $500 will be doubled, helping us to quickly raise funds to support our PRWA Distribution Center.

    NEEDS: $0 of 10,215 + Volunteers
  • Tutoring Space

    Bethany House - Building for a better 2021

    Join Bethany House in bulding toward a better 2021. After a year defined by what we couldn't do, help support what BHA will do in 2021. New program, new envrionment and new leadership to serve Northview Heights.

    NEEDS: $0 of 4,475

  • Self Care for Women in the Age of Covid-19

    COVID-19 has hit communities of color exponentially harder. We will provide self-care practices for women of color and our female community partners.

    NEEDS: $0 of 3,083

Browse all ioby projects currently crowdfunding across the country

Previous Events in Pittsburgh

Recorded Webinar: Northside Resident Leadership

Pittsburghers don’t wait around to get good done. Since we began our on-the-ground work in Pittsburgh, ioby.org has collaborated with over 200 resident-leaders as they plan, crowdfund, and build positive change in neighborhoods all across the city and region. Pittsburghers working with ioby have raised over $800,000 in small donations to make our neighborhoods thriving and full of opportunity for all.

In this webinar, we celebrate the many projects that got good done with the One Northside Crowdfunding Challenge, and explore in a facilitated panel discussion that explores some of those projects.

Watch the recording

 

Recorded Webinar: Pittsburgh Artists Building People Power

Artists: your creative skills are urgently needed in our communities. In this pre-recorded webinar, Pittsburgh Action Strategist Miriam Parson, the Greater Pittsburgh Arts Council, New Sun Rising, and other artists like you explore the key role that artists play in making change, and how you can fundraise even in these difficult times to support your critical work.

We explore:

  • How the arts can help elevate community needs
  • How the power of an artists imagination transforms dreams into actionable vision
  • How artists evolve their own purpose as their impact grows
  • How artists amplify people power to do more good in their own backyards

Watch the recording

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Press and Stories

Miriam Parson: Building a movement in Pittsburgh

Erin Barnes & Miriam Parson: What Pittsburgh means to us 

Stories from Ten Years of Civic Change: The Northside Resource Mall

How they did it: Pittsburgh Liberty Interfaith Choir

AWESOME PROJECT: The incredible multicolored pigeons of Pittsburgh

Next Pittsburgh: ioby opens Pittsburgh office to expand community crowdfunding

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette: Keeping it old school: Reusing what binds our communities

For more information on the places we work in, including Pittsburgh, please read our blog post: Big Plans: Growing Neighbor-Led Positive Change in Pittsburgh.