ioby

Cause Area

  • Arts & Culture
  • Children & Youth
  • Community
  • Environment

Location

540 PRESIDENT STREET 3RD FLOORBROOKLYN, NY 11215 United States
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Mission Statement

ioby is a crowd-resourcing platform for citizen-led neighbor-funded projects. Our name is derived from the opposite of NIMBY. Our mission is to strengthen neighborhoods by supporting the leaders in them who want to make positive change, engaging their neighbors, one block at a time.

Crowd-resourcing combines the concepts of crowd-funding (the ability to pool small donations made online to a specific cause or project) and resource organizing (a core tenet of community organizing that considers activists and advocates the best supporters to ensure success of a cause or project). Crowd-resourcing gives everyone the ability to organize all kinds of capital--cash, social capital, in kind donations, volunteer time, advocacy--from within the community to serve the community. We believe that crowd-resourcing is a powerful way to build support and ensure success of a project.

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ioby connects change with resources. It enables all of us to invest in change--then enjoy the return on our investment. There are everyday neighbors taking small steps, bringing strength, open space, fresh food--whatever the neighborhood needs--into our backyards.

Small steps have big impact. They can ripple through the city. To us, that’s real--and it goes far. It goes beyond your intentions, beyond the abstract, beyond the simple 'click.’ Take a look around! Start a project in your neighborhood. Or pick a project close to your home or your heart and help it grow--and help us spread the word.

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