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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 Detroit 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.
Donate to a project in your Detroit neighborhood
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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: $1,000 of 1,021 -
Motor City Garden
Working to make DETROIT THE PLACE TO BEE, by creating a safe space for people, plants and pollinators.
NEEDS: $15,768 of 24,778 + Volunteers -
Product of Environment POE
Writing plays to show life experiences to reach the community about so many things that people go through in life: homelesssness, depression, sucide, bad relationships, etc.
NEEDS: $5,191 of 5,191 -
The Studio @ Alt Space
A Meeting Space and Rehearsal Studio for local artists and community groups
NEEDS: $20,655 of 20,655 -
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Micro Museum of Experiential Art | Built by Ypsilanti Community High School students
NEEDS: $27,164 of 30,964 + Volunteers -
Warm The People Fundraiser
A coffee & tea fest, bake sale, & silent auction at Ypsi's Riverside Arts Center to buy local houseless folk winter gear...because, baby, it's cold outside.
NEEDS: $0 of 1,150 + Volunteers -
Operation Count It All Joy
Emergency relief and creative resource pop-up series, redefining genius, meeting people where they are.
NEEDS: $24,869 of 25,809 + Volunteers -
Communities Can Create
Communities Can Create, a program helping older individuals and young people create art as a hobby or as a career path.
NEEDS: $2,065 of 3,299 -
Detroit Riverfront Arts Festival
A free, neighborhood arts festival on the Detroit River with contemporary art installations and interactive events honoring the site’s history and facilitating community engagement for residents of all ages!
NEEDS: $5,280 of 5,380 -
Summer Concert Series
Supporting the creative community with music and art.
NEEDS: $18,277 of 21,777 + Volunteers -
Preoccupations: Palestinian Landscapes
A traveling exhibition of contemporary Palestinian landscape art at the Holding House Gallery in Detroit from Jan 11 to Feb 8, 2020
NEEDS: $0 of 6,995 + Volunteers -
Blessed: A Christmas Carol Adaptation Performance
Black & Brown Theatre has been requested to perform a play for children whose parents are currently incarcerated through the Angel Tree Christmas Program at Fellowship Chapel in Detroit.
NEEDS: $0 of 3,622 + Volunteers
Browse all ioby projects currently fundraising across the country
Upcoming Workshops with Brooke and Joe
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
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?"