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Pictured: Queen GreenFeen raised over $1,800 for compost education with ioby in 2023.
 

Up to $3,000 matched by the generous support of Con Edison for community projects related to environmental issues, green space assets, and the arts in your NYC neighborhood!

The 2024 Con Edison Power Up Neighborhood Match Program supports residents in New York City and Westchester County as they bring to life their ideas for positive change within their communities. 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? Or maybe you are hosting a visual or performance art event? We want to hear from you! Don't worry, there's no application process. Simply submit your idea below and we'll be in touch. 

Share your idea to get started!

Donations are matched up to $500 per donor, and up to $3,000 total
for eligible projects in New York City and Westchester County.

Eligibility Details

How does it work? 

When you crowdfund on ioby for a project that is eligible for this match, donations will be doubled instantly so you can raise the money you need twice as fast. If someone donates $25, your page will reflect a donation of $50!

Enrollment in ioby match programs is always first come, first served, so start soon for a better chance to double up to $500 per donor and up to $3,000 per project.  

Share your idea to get started!

Simply share your idea with the ioby team, and we’ll confirm within 1-2 business days if your project is eligible for match program. Then you can fill out your ioby crowdfunding page and begin fundraising, with support from our experienced team of fundraising coaches. First-time fundraisers are welcome—we’re here to help! While you fundraise, donations to your page will be instantly doubled so your fundraising work goes twice as far. 

Support a project below and get your donation doubled,
or start a project of your own to be featured here!

2024 Participants in the Con Edison Power Up Neighborhood Match Program:

  • Your ioby page here!

    Start your own ioby crowdfunding campaign to be featured here! Donations are matched if your project is eligible for this ioby program.

    NEEDS: $5,000 of 5,000
  • Mayday Festival of Resistance 2024

    Mayday Festival of Resistance is a day of music, art, and joyful resistance, where neighbors build solidarity, mutual aid and people power. It will include local BIPOC-youth led bands and labor leaders.

    NEEDS: $5,441 of 8,163 + Volunteers
  • Uptown's Clean Team

    UPTOWN GRAND CENTRAL

    Be a part of building a thriving and vibrant East Harlem -- by supporting great public spaces where health, culture, community & entrepreneurship can grow.

    NEEDS: $12,680 of 18,750 + Volunteers
  • Two sisters dancing in costumes in their room

    Spinning Bubbles Takes on New York!

    A global dance program explores locally: Spinning Bubbles provides free dance classes to girls all around the world, but we want our local New York dancers to experience the dance of NYC!

    NEEDS: $6,122 of 6,122 + Volunteers
  • A group of people in colorful clothing dance. A woman is centered with a black tank top and a heavily beaded floral necklace of red, yellow, and orange. Red flowers sit on the left of her curls and she smiles at the ground.

    Brooklyn Cumbia Fest

    The Brooklyn Cumbia Festival is a multi-day community-focused music festival that celebrates Cumbia music from its origins in Colombia to its modern forms across Latin America and the U.S.

    NEEDS: $6,667 of 6,667
  • Let's Keep Charlton Plaza Beautiful

    Charlton Plaza, at the northwest corner of Charlton and Sixth, is a gem in our neighborhood. We are seeking your financial support to fill it with flowers this spring, summer and fall.

    NEEDS: $1,130 of 12,755 + Volunteers
  • Artwork by NYC artists hosted in community

    Students host artworks in their home

    Expand the experience of visual arts by having students and other members of the community host artworks in their home.

    NEEDS: $5,842 of 6,122 + Volunteers
  • Our team last year, It's grown through!

    NYC Robotics teams needs funds: The Harlem Rails

    We Harlem Rails are a robotics team that brings brilliant young minds in Harlem and Washington Heights into a world of technology. Securing their skills and careers in a technology and robotics!

    NEEDS: $3,061 of 3,061
  • Rueda de Oro 787 Back to BK!

    Rueda de Oro & O Team will host a free & interactive drum circle with the community in Brooklyn at the People’s Garden, to share the musical experience of their trip to Puerto Rico!

    NEEDS: $0 of 3,333
  • The Playground Collective

    Empowering parents and caregivers to keep playgrounds fun and safe for kids by creating powerful micro communities

    NEEDS: $5,556 of 5,556