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Help Support Another Year of the Parkside Plaza 2021

Help us maintain a beautiful Parkside! We need your support to continue to keep the plaza and its flowers, benches, tables and programming running for 2021.

NEEDS: $4,131 of 5,191 + Volunteers

Fight Covid-19 with Nutrients. Support Winter Farm Stands for Neighbors in Need+holiday giving

Support winter local & student-run farmstands for real food justice, equity in Brooklyn. Get new PS 38 market, heat, shelter, coupons, EBT/SNAP. Fight Covid-19 with nutrients!

NEEDS: $5,462 of 15,345 + Volunteers

GS Mutual Aid

A grassroots mutual aid network supporting the most vulnerable and at-risk members of our community during the COVID-19 crisis– immigrant and undocumented families.

NEEDS: $9,281 of 15,228 + Volunteers
Food Ready for Packing

People In Need - COVID19 Food Insecurity Campaign

Your contribution buys fresh food for low income families and the elderly who have lost income as a result of COVID-19. A two week care-box of items worth $50 provides 60 pounds of food.

NEEDS: $3,018 of 16,000 + Volunteers

Greater Prospect Heights Mutual Aid's Community Fund

In response to COVID-19 and the related economic upheaval, GPHMA is providing direct material support to neighbors in need and working to strengthen relationships between community members and institutions.

NEEDS: $7,059 of 10,309 + Volunteers
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Clinton Hill Fort Greene Mutual Aid

Clinton Hill Fort Greene Mutual Aid is a coalition of neighbors organizing to support each other through the COVID-19 pandemic and beyond.

NEEDS: $18,800 of 100,000 + Volunteers

GROW BROWNSVILLE 2.0!

Grow Brownsville!

NEEDS: $10,504 of 16,000 + Volunteers

Crown Heights Mutual Aid

Crown Heights Mutual Aid is a network of neighbors supporting one another through this pandemic and the ongoing crises of climate change, state violence, and inequality, with a focus on addressing food insecurity.

NEEDS: $53,711 of 250,000 + Volunteers
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South Brooklyn Mutual Aid

We're building solidarity not charity and supporting our communities in South Brooklyn during the COVID-19 crisis. 

NEEDS: $105,967 of 400,000 + Volunteers
We’re in it together!

East Brooklyn (Ocean Hill Brownsville) Mutual Aid Network

We deliver groceries or free to our neighbors affected by COVID-19 in East Brooklyn.

NEEDS: $33,152 of 102,585 + Volunteers

Jeremiah Program Brooklyn: No Family Left Behind

Jeremiah Program Brooklyn is proven organization whose mission is to disrupt poverty for single mothers and their children, two generations at a time, through education, safe housing, and early childhood development

NEEDS: $54,320 of 55,670 + Volunteers

El Puente's 6th Annual ¡Wepa! Festival

El Puente's ¡WEPA! Festival is a Latino community festival in the Southside of Williamsburg, Brooklyn produced by El Puente's Green Light District and CADRE (Community Artist Network).

NEEDS: $4,989 of 5,185 + Volunteers

Brownsville Community Studio

A youth operated, state of the art, community music studio and industry incubator creating youth led community change, innovation, and cultural investment. 

 

 

 

NEEDS: $6,940 of 10,335 + Volunteers
Exact replica of Units to be purchased from SENTRY (brand) to keep our park & sidewalks clean!

The 'HopScotch Blues'

Purchase 3 Dog Waste Disposal Systems, Quell Summonses received by Dog Owners, Repair and Encourage relations between Non-Dog Owners/Dog Owners in 'Common Areas' in Lincoln Terrace Park.

 

NEEDS: $710 of 760 + Volunteers

PS 705/Exceed Campus Edible Teaching Garden

We hope that our garden will flourish for years to come and become an integral part of the curriculum at PS 705 and Exceed Charter school, and inspire our community to beautify other areas of our campus.

NEEDS: $5,165 of 5,435 + Volunteers

BKROT: Home Compost Collection and Youth Employment

BKROT employs youth to collect compost from Bushwick residents. It is designed as a local opportunity for community-wide education and economic empowerment for local youth.

NEEDS: $3,843 of 3,923 + Volunteers

Espiritu Tierra Community Garden water harvesting/rain garden

The rain garden and water harvesting system will help to secure the health of a community garden and neighborhood.

NEEDS: $3,607 of 3,834 + Volunteers

The Fire Escape Club

The Fire Escape Club will unite and support fire escape gardeners in Crown Heights!

NEEDS: $755 of 756 + Volunteers

Shore Road Community Compost Collection Site

The Yellow Hook CSA and Narrows Botanical Gardens will build and maintain a community compost collection site to turn residential food scraps and wastes from the NBG into compost to be used at the NBG.

NEEDS: $1,413 of 1,533 + Volunteers

Human Impacts Home

We will open up the rooftop, basement, backyard and storefront of our headquarters in South Willamsburg for green building education!

NEEDS: $5,927 of 6,009 + Volunteers

Birds Chirping Rather Than Gunshots

We will organize residents  and collaborate with other volunteer groups and build tree guards and start taking care of the trees on our block.

NEEDS: $96 of 464 + Volunteers

Plumb Beach Earth Day cleanup

Join us on Earth Day to make Plumb Beach a cleaner, better place for humans and wildlife.

NEEDS: $248 of 258 + Volunteers

Chicken Apprenticeship Workshops

The Chicken Apprenticeship will teach community members the basics of raising hens in the city. The Apprenticeship includes hands on workshops independent work with the hens, readings and field trips.

NEEDS: $614 of 1,315 + Volunteers

More Green For Less Green

Access to fresh produce is severely limited in the Bed-Stuy/Brownsville/Ocean Hill area.

NEEDS: $1,544 of 2,160 + Volunteers

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“ioby has been an incredible resource. We couldn’t have done this without them. As landscape architects, what we really appreciated was the name: in our backyard. It's a crowdfunding platform that’s really philosophically aligned with what we believe our bus stop can be.”
Melissa Robledo, Mi Jardin, Project Leader, Austin, TX
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