Missed one of our live webinars? We've got your back! Watch any one of our previously recorded webinars below and get tips and tricks from experts in the field, and from everyday neighbors who have been in your shoes.
A "Do It Together" Approach to Community Projects
In this pre-recorded with our friends at Welcoming america, we'll share the research behind changing hearts and minds, a powerful case study about a hesitant community transforming into a welcoming one to their immigrant neighbors, and space for you to process this together and come up with projects for your own community.
Voting on the Block: How to boost civic participation and safe voting in your neighborhood
Democracy is a living thing. Everyday actions—like starting a community garden, organizing a pop-up bike lane, or registering to vote—are crucial to strengthening our civic muscles and keeping our democracy strong and vibrant. In the face of an unprecedented election year, we'll need to summon up all that practice we've done and work together to ensure everyone is heard, and everyone is safe along the way.
In this recorded webinar, we hosted a conversation with Mike Lydon of Street Plans and Kyle Lierman of Civic Advisors, moderated by ioby's CEO Erin Barnes where we talked about boosting civic participation and engagement in our neighborhoods, quick and easy interventions you and your neighbors can do to help make poll sites accessible and safe, and more.
Right of Way: Organizing for equitable, walkable communities
It’s a familiar scene across the country: a forest of dueling campaign signs, or a raucous community meeting about a change in the community. It isn’t a secret that there’s a deep, festering divide in our country—and even in our neighborhoods. How do we bridge it? Even more so than door knocking and engaging in conversation, research shows that when neighbors work together on a common project, it positively changes how they relate to each other by a LOT.
Crafting a compelling story
Whether you need some equipment to get a new community garden off the ground, or you're organizing a neighborhood mutual aid project, at some point you'll likely need to think about fundraising. It isn't always glamorous, and it might even be daunting at times, but it's often just got to happen. We want to help make the process easier for you. In this pre-recorded webinar, we'll walk you through one of the most important pieces of any successful fundraising campaign: crafting a compelling story. Get tips, tricks, and field-tested advice, as well as a few real-life case studies to help boost your fundraising plan.
From Community Projects to Running for Office
Are you looking for ways to get you and your neighbors involved in voting and elections? Are you thinking of running for elected office yourself one day soon? If you’ve started a community project before, you’re already halfway there! In this pre-recorded webinar, get tips from ioby project leaders who have been there before! Get answers to your questions, hear about the deep connections between neighborhood projects and elections, and learn how to stand up for your community during the election cycle.
Racial Equity in Creative Placemaking
As communities across the country grapple with our nation’s vast legacy of racism, one that permeates our everyday life today, creative placemaking has a unique role to play in imagining what a more equitable present and future might look like. Bringing together the arts, culture, and creative decision-making in the process of planning and nurturing our future, creative placemaking is a potent tool to tackle inequity today and build a just future. In this recorded webinar, learn how to incorporate racial equity at every turn in your project—from conceiving it, to bringing it to life.
Crowdfunding for Mutual Aid: Caring for one another in times of crisis
In times of crisis, neighbors are often on the front lines lending a hand. Neighbors are stepping up once again to confront COVID-19 and offer care to one another and make sure no one slips through the cracks. In this webinar recording, you'll hear from three leaders across the country who started Mutual Aid projects with their neighbors to offer care in times of crisis. Learn why they did it, how they organized their mutual aid projects, and how they crowdfunded tens of thousands of dollars to bring their ideas to life.
Crowdfunding in Unusual Times: Adjusting your fundraising plans during times of crisis
There's no doubt that the current moment presents difficult choices and new challenges for nonprofit fundraising plan. While many traditional fundraising tools may be off the table for now, crowdfunding can be a powerful tool to leverage the resources you already have to continue to fundraise for your organization effectively. In this webinar, see how to quickly switch in-person fundraising events to an effective crowdfunding campaign, learn best practices for crowdfunding for nonprofits, and get key tips on using ioby to raise the funds you need to support your mission.
Food Towns: Revitalizing communities through food
Healthy, sustainable fare is changing communities across this country, revitalizing towns that have been ravaged by disappearing industries and decades of inequity. What sparked this revolution? How are communities making their ideas a reality? In this recorded webinar, Sarah Reid of Flavorful Creations in Detroit will discuss her ioby funded project, from idea to reality, and the way it's transforming her community. Moderator Mark Winne will give a brief presentation on the transformations that he saw across his travels while writing his book, "Food Town, USA: Seven Unlikely Cities that are Changing the Way We Eat." Brooke Harris, Detroit Action Strategist from ioby, will share how her organization is helping drive community-led positive change through crowdfunding.
Start the Presses: How to get media and publicity for your crowdfunding campaign
Getting attention in the local media can boost the visibility of your fundraising campaign, and attract new donors! In this webinar recording, you'll hear from three ioby leaders who have successfully worked with media to get coverage for their community crowdfunding campaign. Hear their stories of making positive change in their communities, as well as practical tips for pitching, storytelling, and working with media outlets. Plus, some of ioby's favorite make-or-break fundraising advice.
Crowdfunding for Walkable Communities
In this webinar recording, you'll learn how walkable community advocates use crowdfunding as an effective fundraising and community-engagement tool. The webinar recording includes real-life case studies of successfully-funded walking advocacy projects, plus top tips for an effective campaign.
Photography and Video for Crowdfunding
They say a picture is worth a thousand words, but when you’re crowdfunding a picture can translate into dollars for your project! In this webinar recording, we chat with three successful ioby leaders who used photography and video to creatively share their story as part of their crowdfunding campaign.
Storytelling 101: How to Tell a Story
What is your elevator speech about your work? How do you frame your project to make it as persuasive as possible to others? In this webinar recording, you'll hear from a panel of community-based experts and pros on narrative strategy. They'll share tips and tricks for building your project’s story and how this is essential for a successful fundraising campaign.
Ask an Expert: Healthy Communities Part 1
On March 1, 2017, we hosted a 'lunch and learn' panel discussion about community health and urban design. Hear from two successful community leaders and ioby project leaders, and hear about their challenges and inspirations in getting a health initiative off the ground. Then, learn from two expert opinions who shared models and approaches for making neighborhoods healthier.
Beyond Voting: Flexing Your Civic Muscle
To strengthen our democracy, we'll need to look both inside and outside the election cycle to build year-round relationships and build lasting people power. In this webinar recording, you'll hear from neighbors who are using ioby to crowdfund for community projects that bring their neighbors together to listen, create dialogue, and make meaningful, lasting change across differences.
Gender Justice
Feminism isn't a dirty word anymore, but there's still far to go until we get to full liberation for women and people who are gender non-conforming. In this webinar recording, you'll learn from community leaders who are crowdfunding to build powerful projects that fight for gender justice and push against harmful power structures.
Crowdfunding for Racial Justice
In this webinar recording, you'll hear from project leaders who are addressing their neighborhood’s need for racial justice and have created community solutions around racial equity. They’ll share how crowdfunding supported their grassroots projects and how they got started, built support, and overcame challenges. Indigo Bishop, one of ioby’s Action Strategists, will also share more about how we work to support social justice changemaking.
Crowdfunding for Community Projects
Have a great idea for a project that makes your community greener, healthier, stronger or more vibrant? Need some cash to make it happen? ioby provides civic leaders like you with a crowdfunding platform and one-on-one fundraising coaching to raise the dollars you need to bring your idea to life.
In this webinar recording, you'll learn the nuts and bolts of crowdfunding your own local project!
Bringing the Green: Crowdfunding for community gardens
Do you have ideas for improving your neighborhood? Are you interested in using crowdfunding to raise money to help your community thrive, especially by turning a vacant or abandoned lot into a community garden or multi-purpose community space? This brand new webinar is about raising money and organizing neighbor support for community garden projects. From converting a vacant lot into a neighborhood greenspace to planting an herb garden, superstar ioby leaders and experienced fundraisers will share their tips, challenges, and triumphs to successful greening.
How to Make it Rain: Crowdfunding for nonprofit organizations
In this webinar recording about crowdfunding for nonprofits, you'll hear from ioby leaders and experienced fundraisers who share their tips, successes and common roadblocks to successfully crowdfunding for special projects at their organizations.
How to Make it Rain: Crowdfunding for larger budgets
If you have your sights set high, your budget—and fundraising skills—will have to rise to the challenge. Crowdfunding more than $10,000 on ioby is totally doable, but it takes some extra planning. In this webinar recording we hear from ioby leaders who have successfully raised BIG bucks for their community. You'll learn valuable tools, tips, and challenges to meeting big budget crowdfunding goals. Learn from an experienced panel of ioby project leaders, non-profit fundraisers, and one of our staff coaches.
Ask An Expert: Green Triangles
On December 20, 2016, Cathy Marcinko, Grant Development Coordinator at Le Bonheur Community Health and Well-Being in Memphis, and leader of The Green Triangles Project, kicked off our inaugural webinar as our first featured leader. She was joined by a panel of three experts: Justin Garrett Moore, Executive Director of the NYC Public Design Commission and an ioby board member; Tommy Pacello, President of the Memphis Medical District Collaborative; and Janet Boscarino, Executive Director of Clean Memphis, Inc.
Small Scale Philanthropy, Big Impact: Giving Circles
On March 28, 2017, we talked with Amplifier, a national network of giving circles, about ethical philanthropy, ioby's guiding principles for how we're working to encourage local giving, and explored ways for giving circles to leverage ioby's crowdfunding platform.
Artists Building People Power: Civic leadership by neighbors, for neighbors
Artists: your creative skills are urgently needed in our communities. In this pre-recorded webinar, Pittsburgh Action Strategist Miriam Parson, the Greater Pittsburgh Arts Council, New Sun Rising, and other artists like you explore the key role that artists play in making change, and how you can fundraise even in these difficult times to support your critical work.