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About ioby Detroit
There’s a lot to love about 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 100 resident leaders as they plan, crowdfund, and build positive change in neighborhoods across the city. With a median donation of $35, these leaders have raised over $340,000 in small donations to make Detroit neighborhoods thriving and full of opportunity for all.
Meet Brooke, your ioby Detroit Action Strategist!
As our Detroit Action Strategist, Brooke Harris is working to hard help even more leaders like you in Detroit make positive change across the city. When you share your idea for positive change in your Detroit neighborhood, she'll walk alongside you as you build your crowdfunding campaign page, make your first donation asks, and build your project.
Brooke is a born and raised Detroiter, and was introduced to ioby when she ran her own ioby crowdfunding campaign. She loves Detroit; from the many open mics around town, to getting lost in the aisles of books at John K. King or Source Booksellers, and she's ready to help you strengthen Detroit even more.
Learn more about our City Action Strategists and how we work on-the-ground to support resident-led change.
Get your donations doubled
Green Infrastructure Crowdfunding Match
Even the smallest amount of rain, as little as 0.1 inches, can overwhelm our water systems and cause flooding and sewage to overflow into our local waterways. But everyday neighbors (like you!) are working together to help solve stormwater issues through simple but powerful green infrastructure projects. Get up to $8,000 of your donations matched, dollar-for-dollar, for projects that install rain gardens, green roofs, bioswales or vegetated strips on a sidewalk, rain barrels or planter boxes under downspouts, or depave parking lots.
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 Detroit neighborhood
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KAN Cultural Center & Literacy Hub
We are creating a Literacy Hub where youth & adults have access to creative writing classes, books, publishing opportunities, residencies & a space to light up the open mic.
NEEDS: $12,701 of 33,201 + Volunteers -
Walter Bailey’s Art Forest #2 at Farwell Field Greenway
Grassroots public art improves neighborhood livability
NEEDS: $20,817 of 21,067 -
Sofa Stories - Detroit
A participatory theatre experience that aims to amplify the stories of young Detroiters who have experienced homelessness or housing insecurity and have resorted to couch-surfing as a means to survive.
NEEDS: $1,336 of 5,191 -
La Esquina: Mini Mercado & Cultural Enclave
We Are Culture Creators, more than music!
NEEDS: $30,964 of 30,964 -
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Abby Kraftowitz Fellowship
Help City of Asylum/Detroit honor Abby Kraftowitz’s Legacy by welcoming our first Abby Kraftowitz Fellow in July 2020.
NEEDS: $0 of 30,964 + Volunteers -
Helping our neighbor one STEP at a time!
Detroiters Helping each other through a fundraising campaign that will repair cement porch for our neighbor, a long time Southwest Detroit homeowner and grandmother.
NEEDS: $0 of 3,772 -
Interactive Murals at Alternatives for Girls
We will create several interactive murals with homeless and high-risk girls and young women engaging them in the art making process and inspiring joy and positivity in their lives through art.
NEEDS: $29,529 of 29,929 -
Growing Girlhood!
A Girl in her power can change the world, a collective of girls in their power can create a new one!
NEEDS: $5,191 of 5,191 -
KING 999
Professional neighbors reclaim space for an affordable artist residency and 3D printing lab
NEEDS: $0 of 17,282 -
La Carpa Theatre
A series of pop-up performances, in the style of Mexican Carpas, around the city that share the diversity of Latinx culture and encourage cultural exchange.
NEEDS: $15,500 of 15,500 -
Leading Youth Through Food & Financial Education (LYFFE)
LYFFE is a health and financial education program at Warrendale Charter Academy in Detroit that builds students’ knowledge and skills about physical, emotional, and social health.
NEEDS: $870 of 1,021
Browse all ioby projects currently fundraising across the country
Upcoming Workshops with Brooke
Want to meet one-on-one with Brooke, our Detroit Action Strategist, and get some key tips to help get your project off the ground? Drop by for office hours this month!
Schedule a meeting with Brooke
Start a project in Detroit
What would you do to improve your neighborhood? Tell us your idea below and you can start crowdfunding for your community project this month! Detroit Action Strategist Joe Rashid and Brooke Harris will follow up with you with tailored fundraising resources that will help turn your idea into a reality.
Resources for working in Detroit
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. That’s why we developed this free guide, to make it easier to connect and work with city officials to make our neighborhoods safer, greener, more livable and more fun!
Also, check out our resources page and our blog for stories and lessons from our nationwide community of local leaders.
Press and Partners
Detroit Free Press: Michigan Avenue billboards turned into public art
Model D: Bagley residents lead grassroots effort to build pocket park
ioby Detroit is made possible thanks to generous support from the Ford Foundation and The Kresge Foundation.
For more information on how ioby chooses the places where we work, and how we chose Detroit, please read our blog posts:
"ioby in Detroit: The Why and How"
"That Wonky Stuff: What's Phase 0?"