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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 Joe and Brooke, your ioby Detroit Action Strategists! 

As our Detroit Action Strategists, Joe Rashid and Brooke Harris are 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, they'll walk alongside you as you build your crowdfunding campaign page, make your first donation asks, and build your project.

Joe is a lifelong Detroiter who believes that there is not a more innovative and creative city in this country than Detroit and he loves aiding others to discover how to turn their great ideas into a reality for its communities. 

 

 

 

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

Artists Lead! 

Are you an artist or creative worker with great ideas for collaborative solutions to a need in your Cleveland community? Fundraise for your idea with ioby and you could get your dollars doubled through the Artists Lead! match program. Get up to $15,000 of your crowdfunded donations matched dollar-for-dollar.

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Donate to a project in your Detroit neighborhood

  • Healing by Choice! Group Work

    Healing by Choice! Fundraising Campaign

    Healing by Choice! is a collaboration of women of color healing practitioners in Detroit.  Healing justice is our grassroots wellness strategy to increase the wellness and capacity of our community. 

    NEEDS: $0 of 4,688
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    We Rock Detroit

    Creative expression, community awareness, and positive self-esteem

    NEEDS: $0 of 1,665

  • Backpacktacular 2019!

    Sending our Campers packing back to school with a u-pack backpack full of tools to succeed!

    NEEDS: $0 of 8,623 + Volunteers

  • Cleopatra Boy

    Cleopatra Boy uses the historical figure of Cleopatra to illustrate how women, POC, and LGBTQIA+ individuals in positions of power risk losing control of their own images and histories resulting in false narratives.

    NEEDS: $0 of 4,185

Browse all ioby projects currently fundraising across the country

 

Upcoming Workshops with Brooke and Joe

Changing the Narrative

Join us for an opportunity to network with other neighborhood-leaders and get plugged in to movements around the city to change our city’s narrative using arts and culture. We’ll also have a panel with A Host of People and The Tuxedo Project, who will share their ioby projects and offer tips from their own crowdfunding campaigns. 

Wednesday, December 4
6 -8 pm
ArtBlock
1411 Holden Street 
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Want to meet one-on-one with Brooke and Joe, our Detroit Action Strategists, 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  Schedule a meeting with Joe 

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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.

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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.

 

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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?"

 

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