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We broke down the ways you can support the movement for Black Lives, lend a hand during COVID-19, and more.

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Browse ioby projects near you, discover volunteer opportunities, and support like-minded projects. Enter search terms like “Michigan", "compost", or “playground”.

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Winter Block Party

Spending time outside and building relationships.

NEEDS: $1,031 of 1,031

Flatbush Senior Housing Mutual Aid: Winter Fundraiser

Help us safely provide monthly groceries and PPE to older adults in Flatbush, Brooklyn

NEEDS: $2,925 of 21,031
Medicinemaking

A Time for Healing - A fundraiser to build the capacity of our earth and its People

The Hattie Carthan Herban Farm seeks resources for valuable work rooted in care for the Earth and its people

NEEDS: $15,227 of 16,751

Giving Tuesday - Tech for HOPE

Help to provide #TechForHOPE this Giving Tuesday!  Support some of the communities hit hardest by the COVID-19 pandemic in gaining greater access to critical technology.  

NEEDS: $6,342 of 16,244

Help Purchase A 1-Year Supply of Audio Headsets for Ready, Willing & Able Trainees on Job Search!

The Doe Fund's 5-week Career Success Strategies class culminates in a virtual mock interview event where each trainee needs audio equipment to participate in the virtual event. 

NEEDS: $2,743 of 4,639

Easy Activism: Fundraising for Black Mental Health

Our goal is to raise $50k for one month of free, individualized therapy for 200+ Black people. All funds will pay BIPOC therapists who are healing the community while also facing collective trauma.

NEEDS: $8,919 of 50,000
Two hands on either side of the words "Neighbors Looking Out for Each Other" in English and Spanish

Red Hook Mutual Aid

We are a small corps of concerned Red Hookers committed to making supplies, resources, and information as accessible, inclusive, and comprehensive as possible. 

NEEDS: $7,569 of 20,619

Bed-Stuy Strong’s Mutual Aid Community Fund

Formed in response to the COVID-19 crisis, Bed-Stuy Strong is a mutual aid network of neighbors from all walks of life that support each other in solidarity. 

NEEDS: $105,302 of 600,000

Grocery Stipends

Restuarant service workers raising funds for weekly grocery stipends and monthly rent relief, prioritizing those who cannot access unemployment benefits.

NEEDS: $6,972 of 40,000
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Coney Island Storefront Gates Community Art Murals

Enriching Coney Island's commercial landscape with public art that expresses its vibrant history, culture, and diversity through the creative eyes of the community artists - past, present and future.

NEEDS: $10,325 of 10,345

Save 3BC

3 Black Cats Cafe has come to a crossroad and needs your support to determine its future in Brownsville. 

NEEDS: $76,935 of 77,285

East New York Dog Lovers Dog friendly Ground Community Garden

 A dog friendly space where everything that's grown is pet friendly. Creating a garden to bring dog owners together in a safe space.

NEEDS: $9,559 of 9,821

Fighting for the Integrity of Historic Districts–Preserving The 1870 Dean Sage Residence

We need your help to pay legal fees. Help us overturn LPC's decision to permit contruction of a residential building over the garden of the Historic 1870 Dean Sage Residence. 

NEEDS: $21,010 of 21,060

Gowanus Curbside Rain Garden

A rain garden, alive with hardy native plants, could bring this Brooklyn street to life and spark an affordable, replicable model of beauty, sustainability, and resiliency.

NEEDS: $3,175 of 3,275

Feed the Farm Share

Support the subsidized share program for Crown Heights Farm Share, to bring healthy, fresh food to more families. If every member of the CSA gives $25, we can reach 50 families in our neighborhood next season.

NEEDS: $4,294 of 5,435

Help Green City Force get wheels!

Help GCF get wheels, supporting Corps Members as they provide low-income residents with low-cost measures and education that can lower utility bills, while simultaneously reducing greenhouse gas emissions.

NEEDS: $1,293 of 2,095

A Small Green Patch - Community space and garden

A Small Green Patch: Raising money to help maintain A Small Green Patch, maintaining the garden and booking musical guests throughout the summer.

NEEDS: $2,444 of 3,275

PLANT - GROW - GIVE

PLANT - GROW - GIVE by MERCY HOME, Lifeskills, Lifelong

NEEDS: $1,210 of 2,140

Heritage Compost Project

Educate the neighborhood and reclaim organic waste.

NEEDS: $1,055 of 1,065

Educating faith communities about food justice at the Brooklyn Food Conference

We will be workshop facilitators and panelists, discussing food justice issues and how NYC’s faith community can engage with issues surrounding food justice. 

 

 

 

NEEDS: $239 of 309

Electric Car

Build an Electric vehicle for the delivery of raw ice cream.  A local ice cream manufacturer in New York.

 

NEEDS: $2,100 of 2,160

Living City Brooklyn Gowanus

We envision an ultra-creative street sign project that marries destination pointers and green infrastructure elements such as stormwater management, green energy, alternative transportation. 

NEEDS: $3,918 of 4,160

Eating Healthy in Bed-Stuy

Global warming is demanding that humans acquire new consumption habits fast.

NEEDS: $2,222 of 3,450

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“Gosh darnit there's this problem, and it all comes down to there being this core group of people who say let's do something about it. And when a neighborhood level movement is urgent, ioby gave us the funding might to be able to go stand something up really quickly. ”
Britney Thornton, JUICE Orange Mound, Memphis, TN
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