Cleveland arts and culture51st Annual Puerto Rican Parade & Festival. Supported in 2019 through the Cuyahoga Arts & Culture Match Fund.

Get your donations doubled for arts and culture projects in Cuyahoga County!

Have an idea to bring arts and culture to life in Cuyahoga County?

Are you an artist dreaming up a public art project? A dancer who needs money for a performance in a park? A film buff looking to host community movie screenings? Get a boost! If you have an idea to make Cuyahoga County more vibrant through the arts, you could get your donations   doubled up to $3,000   when you crowdfund your project with ioby. 

The Cuyahoga Arts & Culture Match Fund supports organizations and residents (like you!) as they make our county more vibrant and creative.  Individuals, artists, informal groups of residents, and nonprofits can all receive one-on-one fundraising coaching and dollar-for-dollar matching funds up to $3,000 on their ioby crowdfunding campaign in support of projects that bring arts and culture to Cuyahoga County residents. Share your project idea below to get started and double your dollars!

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Donate to a project and get your donation doubled, or start a project of your own to be featured here:

  • Local Arts & Culture Back to School Rally

    During a civic engagement stimulation project, a group a teens from Cleveland, Ohio decided to bring art to their community while providing essential school supplies to their peers.

    NEEDS: $0 of 3,081 + Volunteers

  • Babbitt Road Community Mural, Euclid Ohio

    Beautify the heart of Euclid's Industrial and Innovation Corridor! Community members are invited to paint alongside artists during the mural install event September 26-27th, 2020. 

     

    NEEDS: $0 of 1,863 + Volunteers
  • Welcome to Parma Mural Draft

    Welcome to Parma Mural

    Join our grassroots effort to show that we are proud of Parma and that we support local art and artists.

    NEEDS: $0 of 6,505

  • The Land: In-depth local reporting

    Help us provide critical coverage of Cleveland's neighborhoods and inner ring suburbs by building a website and hiring a diverse team of editors and writers.

    NEEDS: $0 of 16,780 + Volunteers

  • Front Yard Concerts

    In collaboration with W. Schaaf Gallery+Studio, Classical Revolution Cleveland & OPUS 216 are teaming to bring Front Yard Concerts to several of CLE's west-side neighborhoods during the summer of 2020.

    NEEDS: $0 of 3,046

  • Nouveau

    Large Scale Public Art Installation that sparks joy and engages community inclusion, provides free space for performances, and explores unmeditated and meditated social experiences. 

    NEEDS: $0 of 5,100 + Volunteers
  • Schoolyard Habitats — Plants 4 Bugs 2 Play

    Schoolyard Habitats for Outdoor Learning

    School yard habitats foster outdoor learning for teachers & students by creating a diverse ecosystem of native plants to generate resilience and efficiencies. 

    NEEDS: $0 of 515 + Volunteers
  • Habboba with Sudanese Community

    Habboba Van

    Habboba Van is a mobile storytelling studio, That aims to amplify the unheard voices within our communities and how they are connected to their urban environment. 

    NEEDS: $0 of 6,535

  • Wrap Up Homelessness 2020

    This winter, The Cleveland Street Chronicle newspaper will feature holiday wrapping paper created by local homeless artists and will be sold by vendors with lived experience.

    NEEDS: $0 of 5,191

  • Buck Out Cleveland

    Please support our organization as we help aspiring Cleveland dancers reach their goals!

    NEEDS: $0 of 6,235

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For all the details on eligibility and how this match works, read our match FAQ.

Completely new to ioby and crowdfunding? Check out ioby101.

 

About ioby

ioby stands for “in our backyards,” but it also stands for taking care of each other, for civic participation, and for trusting neighbors to know what’s best for the neighborhood. Neighbors nationwide have raised over $8 million in citizen philanthropy on ioby for projects that make their communities healthier, greener, safer, and more livable. When you post project on ioby you can collect tax-deductible donations, find new donors and volunteers, and receive one-on-one fundraising coaching.

This match fund is supported in part by the residents of Cuyahoga County through a public grant from the Cuyahoga Arts & Culture (CAC). Learn more about CAC at cacgrants.org.