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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 Cincinnati. 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 Detroit we compiled to help you plan a project. We're also currently waiving fiscal sponsorship fees and our platform fee for projects that respond to COVID-19, wherever you are in the United States. 

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What projects are eligible?

 

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 150 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 $500,000 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. 

 

Donate to a project in your Detroit neighborhood

  • two brown hands holding a small sign that says "Love Letters to Black Folx" on a floral background

    Love Letters to Black Folx

    Support us in creating this movement to conjure joy, hope, rest and rejuvenation for Black people.

    NEEDS: $0 of 2,098 + Volunteers

Browse all ioby projects currently fundraising across the country

Upcoming Workshops and Webinars with Brooke

In times of difficulty, research consistently shows that our neighbors are the people that we turn to most for support. It makes sense! A familiar, friendly face can make all the difference in the world in challenging times. Today, one powerful way Detroiters are showing up for each other is with care packages. Their packages "feed the soul," like Love Letters to Black Folk, and they nourish the body, like care packages of food. It’s a powerful way to share health and healing and to remind us that we've got each other’s back.

On Monday, November 9th, we hosted a live webinar to learn about projects happening across the city, and get tips and advice for starting your own project to share healing through care packages.

Check out the recording here.

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Start a project in Detroit

What would you do to improve your neighborhood? Tell us your idea below and Detroit Action Strategist 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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