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Detroit Match Program
Whether you're a student with an amazing idea, urban farmer, social justice activist, artist, or a motivated neighbor looking to make a difference within your own community, ioby’s Detroit Match Fund is a way to double your donations and make a meaningful impact within your own neighborhood. Donors are matched instantly up to $400, and projects can access up to $2,000 in matching funds, until the program ends.
LEARN MORE ABOUT THE DETROIT MATCH PROGRAM
Start A Project In Detroit
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
Share your idea and ioby will reach out to support you on your journey to making positive change in your Detroit neighborhood
About ioby Detroit
There’s a lot to love about the Motor City, but our favorite thing has got to be Detroiters’ readiness to get good done. Since we began our on-the-ground work in Detroit, ioby has supported over 216 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 $1,010,694 in small donations to make Detroit neighborhoods thriving and full of opportunity for all.
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We'll send you periodic updates about events, match funding opportunities, and awesome projects going on in your backyard!
Meet Ross Harris, ioby's Detroit Action Strategist
As the Detroit Action Strategist, Ross Harris partners with neighbors and community-minded individuals across Southeast Michigan to create community-driven power and sustainable change. Ross believes that community power comes from the people when they're informed and organized. Over the past 13 years he has committed himself to informing the community in various roles, working as a housing counselor, community organizer, and activist. Racial equity and justice is the motivation that keeps Ross committed to the community he serves. In Ross' spare time he loves to garden, kayak, camp, and spend time with his four beautiful children. You can reach out to Ross at detroit@ioby.org.
Learn more about our City Action Strategists and how we work on-the-ground to support resident-led change.
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Wellspring Teen Backpacking Adventure
Teen Backpacking Adventure Builds Leadership, Confidence and Faith in 4-Day Camping Trip to Red River Gorge, Kentucky
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Imhotep STEM Lab Phase 2
The Imhotep STEM Lab of Avalon Village will serve the youth of Highland Park and Detroit Michigan, bridge the gap between education and access to solar jobs industry.
NEEDS: $20,000 of 20,000 + Volunteers -
Self Care Series
Self Care Sanctuary is a nonprofit organization dedicated to offering comprehensive services for the mind, body, and soul. Our Self Care Series is for Detroiters to decrease stress and increase their self care.
NEEDS: $0 of 410 -
Help Us Help You Help The Planet!
Recycle Here! has been awarded a grant from the State of Michigan to purchase a baler so we can accept plastic bags so they can be recycled. We need to provide matching funds to complete this grant!
NEEDS: $0 of 7,860 -
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The North End Urban Expressions Art Festival: The Healing 2022
Art & Healing in the North End neighborhood of Detroit.
NEEDS: $0 of 2,000 + Volunteers -
The second annual SWFest 2022: a FREE large scale music and art festival in Southwest Detroit.
Organized by a collective of local NextGen creatives, the festival is a representation of everything that makes Southwest Detroit unique.
NEEDS: $0 of 10,816 -
TimeBank Trips!
Build community connections through fun experiences like group bike rides, going to a cider mill, blueberry picking, a Belle Isle Beach party, and Kayak Tour.
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Community Care Spaces for Detroiters
In this time of great change and collective grief, we need community spaces to heal. We gather to offer free, accessible healing spaces for grassroots Detroit groups, and to deepen our relationships with communities.
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Underground Music Academy
Underground Music Academy is pleased to embark on our third annual fundraiser. We’re continuing Phase 2 of construction and launching an in-person pilot program for young adults with local partner Living Arts.
NEEDS: $30,918 of 30,928
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