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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

  • Andi Dufresne

    Pittsburgh Prison Cats

    Donate to help to provide food, winter shelters, and veterinary care for the Pittsburgh Prison Cats - a colony of community cats living at the abandoned Western State Penitentiary.

    NEEDS: $0 of 5,882
  • A volunteer assembles a grocery care package for workers in need.

    PRWA Goes Back to School With Full Bellies!

    This fund will provide often requested, healthy, kid friendly meals and snacks to households in our network with school aged children, as families face returning to school during a pandemic.

    NEEDS: $0 of 12,045 + Volunteers
  • Free Food for Garfield

    Garfield Gives

    Donating to the Garfield Gives campaign helps provide resources, including funds to help pay bills, to those who are affected by Covid-19 that live and work in the East End of Pittsburgh!

    NEEDS: $0 of 7,100
  • SaxChats!

    SaxChats

    A series of performances from a neglected instrument alongside interviews with the odd ducks who write for it.

    NEEDS: $0 of 2,684
  • Garden veggies

    Community Garden Revitalization

    Allendale Acres Community Garden needs a shed! We also need a wheelbarrow, materials for a stone path, additional raised beds, a weed wacker, rainbarrel parts, and materials for a fence.    

    NEEDS: $0 of 6,140

  • 5 PM Group Community Garden

    A community space where one can find serenity, take a walk on the trails, learn about growing vegetation, healthy living, and mindfulness.

    NEEDS: $0 of 10,076 + Volunteers

  • New Welcome Banners for Grandview Avenue

    Mount Washington Community Development Corporation (MWCDC) is raising funds to replace street banners and directory signs for Grandview Avenue and its neighboring business district.

    NEEDS: $0 of 7,830

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.