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COVID 19: Caring for your community

Our ioby community is full of helpers. Neighborhood leaders, unofficial mayors of the block, people like you who have always stepped up to do what’s right and to lend a hand. We’re here to support your urgent responses to the impacts of COVID-19 in Cleveland. There are two things you can do on ioby right now to support your community: You can start a project on ioby, or check out a list of resources in Cleveland we compiled to help you plan a project. 

Start a project in Cleveland

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 Cleveland neighborhood.

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What projects are eligible?

 

About ioby Cleveland

We’ve got to admit: Cleveland is pretty amazing. When neighbors across the city set out to get good done in the neighborhood, Clevelanders are there to lend a hand. Since we began our on-the-ground work, ioby Cleveland has supported over 460 resident leaders as they plan, crowdfund, and build positive change in neighborhoods across the city. With a median donation of $50, these leaders have raised over $1,447,359 in small donations to make Cleveland neighborhoods greener, safer, more livable, and more full of opportunity for all residents.

Meet Pete Saudek, ioby's Cleveland Action Strategist

As the Cleveland Action Strategist, Pete Saudek partners with neighbors across Northeast Ohio to create positive and sustainable change throughout the region. When you share your idea for positive change in your neighborhood, Pete will walk alongside you as you build your crowdfunding campaign, and connect you to the tools and resources intended to transform your community.

Pete has been rooted in Northeast Ohio for the past 10 years as a community organizer, housing justice advocate and musician, working with neighbors to generate community-based projects and campaigns across the city.

Learn more about our City Action Strategists and how we work on-the-ground to support resident-led change.

 

Get your donations doubled! 

 

Cuyahoga Arts & Culture Match Program

The Cuyahoga Arts & Culture Match Fund supports organizations and residents as they make our county more vibrant and creative. 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. 

LEARN MORE ABOUT THE CUYAHOGA ARTS & CULTURE MATCH PROGRAM

 

Lorain and Elyria, OH Match Fund

The 2021 Lorain and Elyria, OH Match Fund can match donations to support communities in zip codes 44052, 44053, 44055, 44035 and 44036. By focusing on volunteer-led projects and small grassroots groups, this program will get timely funding to local resident-led projects as neighbors deepen their collaborations and relationships in Lorain City, Ohio and in Elyria, Ohio. Please note that 2020 Neighborhood Connections cohort members are not eligible.

Learn more about the Lorain and Elyria, OH Match Fund

 

Please note that you cannot participate in two match opportunities at the same time, but if you exhaust one fund and are eligible for another you may then participate in an additional match fund opportunity.

 

Donate to a project in your Cleveland neighborhood

  • The art of Afghan cooking and culture

    "Khuraki" is a live cultural/culinary performance by and about female Afghan refugees taking place this July as part of the BorderLight Festival of International Theatre.

    NEEDS: $35,244 of 35,244 + Volunteers

  • Juneteenth Celebration

    Community grassroot event centered around providing resources, education, and entertainment. 

    NEEDS: $1,524 of 1,524 + Volunteers

  • Let's Daffodil Desmond Part 2!

    Last year, we raised over $2500 and transformed the Desmond Avenue hillside with 5000 daffodil bulbs. Let's build on that success and plant another 5000 bulbs this fall!

    NEEDS: $5,045 of 5,155 + Volunteers

  • Go Home 2 Stay Home

    Providing resources for our formerly incarcerated community! Giving them a hand up during their re-entry!

    NEEDS: $2,577 of 2,577 + Volunteers
  • A man, his wife, and their two young boys stand in front of a Christmas-themed display, smiling.

    #ReuniteUS: Bring Deported People Home!

    The Biden administration has the power to bring deported people back to their homes, jobs, and lives in the United States. Deportation should not be a life sentence, or a death sentence!

    NEEDS: $46,221 of 51,546 + Volunteers

  • Home Won Foundation International

    Mass producing tiny houses to serve as transitional housing for the homeless, veterans, ex-offenders, domestic violence victims, aged out foster youth, and those under the Americans with Disabilities Act.

    NEEDS: $54,348 of 54,348 + Volunteers

  • The Cleveland Design Business Accelerator

    Transforming Cleveland to the Milan of the Midwest  increasing product development, expanding capacity to manufacture designs, and compete globally.

    NEEDS: $10,870 of 10,870 + Volunteers

  • For The Love Of Art Tour

    From Cleveland to Columbus, we will travel to meet various creatives and discuss the value of art.  It's an exciting experience that is empowering and educational.

     

    NEEDS: $0 of 6,186 + Volunteers
  • Neighborhood Greenspace Development Opportunities

    Vital Spaces Training Scholarships

    Scholarships for Neighborhood Greenspace Development Opportunities - Realizing greenspace in Cleveland communities. Workshops sprouting from vital Cleveland spaces: "Growing from the ground up."

    NEEDS: $1,862 of 2,062

  • SOW UP

    We see the need so we SOW up to help our communities in need 

    NEEDS: $0 of 768 + Volunteers

Browse all ioby projects currently fundraising across the country

Resources

We know that the best community projects are not solo endeavors - real change means collaboration, coordination, and teamwork. But we also know how daunting it can feel to work with city government for the first time. Check out these resources to make it easier to connect and work with Cleveland officials to make our neighborhoods safer, greener, more livable and more fun! 

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Or, check out our resources page and our blog for stories and lessons from our nationwide community of local leaders.

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Press 

Cleveland.com: 'In Our Backyard' brings cutting-edge crowd-sourcing to Cleveland

CityLab: Rethinking the Bus Shelter

For more information on how ioby chooses the places where we work, and how we chose Cleveland, please read our blog posts:

"That Wonky Stuff: What's Phase 0?"

"ioby's Coming to Cleveland: Here's Why!"

 

Partners

  
 

ioby Cleveland is made possible thanks to generous support from the Saint Luke's Foundation, the Cleveland Foundation, and The George Gund Foundation.