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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:
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Receive one-on-one fundraising and implementation coaching
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Collect tax-deductible donations
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Have ioby act as your project’s fiscal sponsor
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Find new volunteers
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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. You can also email us at cleveland@ioby.org.
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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 930 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 $1,640,212 in small donations to make Cleveland neighborhoods greener, safer, more livable, and more full of opportunity for all residents. Email cleveland@ioby.org to learn more!
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.
Book an office hour session with Pete
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
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Garfield Community Garden's Plan Bee
help us restart and expand our garden's bee keeping!
NEEDS: $812 of 812 -
Acts of Light: Community Safety Project
Turn the threat of cross-fire gun violence into acts of light with a wooden fence of embedded glass beads that obstruct the line of sight, changing the narrative to community empowerment in Cleveland, Ohio
NEEDS: $1,498 of 2,538 + Volunteers -
L.U.N.G.E. (Leading the Underrepresented to New Grounds of Excellence)
We make the sport of fencing more accessible and conducive to the full development of our youth.
NEEDS: $5,435 of 5,435 + Volunteers -
Run Away with Crooked River Circus & School
Experience the thrill and joy of the circus right in your backyard with Crooked River Circus & School. Help us bring an amazing outdoor circus show to community spaces this summer for all to enjoy.
NEEDS: $3,326 of 5,076 -
Homecoming: Three Black Women Creatives Return to the Land
Three Black Women Creatives--Poets Kelly Harris-DeBerry and Teri Ellen Cross-Davis, and composer Janice Lowe--Return to the Land in honor of the City of Cleveland Commission on Black Women and Girls.
NEEDS: $17,931 of 18,431 + Volunteers -
Dads Outdoors - Nature Walk in the Parks
Nature is a great learning experience for kids and parents. We are getting dads on the trails to engage their kids to ask questions and enjoy our parks!
NEEDS: $0 of 3,743 -
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Unpacking "Art": Full S.T.E.A.M Ahead "23"
Exploring, learning and growing creatively through the vehicle of science, technology, engineering, art and mathematics
NEEDS: $0 of 6,091 -
Southeast Cleveland Resource Center
Help us be the best resource brokers we can be!
NEEDS: $5,385 of 5,435 + Volunteers -
Impact Academy, Impact Ventures, Impact Cities
A multi-tiered solution dedicated to reducing the social enterprise education gap and building and thriving social enterprise ecosystem in Cleveland.
NEEDS: $10,870 of 10,870 -
TheCLE.Land
An online Public Square for Clevelanders by Clevelanders provided as a public good to build social capital and engage people in their local communities
NEEDS: $8,474 of 8,474 + Volunteers