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Learn how to crowdfund to make your idea a reality in Memphis!
Join us April 12th at 5p CST

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Join us on April 12th at 5pm to learn how to ask for donations, who you’ll ask, what to do when someone says no, and where the crowd is at in crowdfunding. We’ll also be sharing a match funding opportunity to double donations right now! Memphians have raised over $1,000,000 with ioby teaching how to find those donors. We hope to reconnect with you on April 12th!

 

Start a project in Memphis

Ready to make positive change in your Memphis neighborhood? Share your idea and we'll contact you right away to share tailored fundraising resources to support your crowdfunding campaign.

Through ioby, anyone with a great idea for creating positive change in their neighborhood can raise funds, find volunteers and promote their project. When you fundraise for your community project on ioby, you can:

  • Receive one-on-one fundraising and implementation coaching

  • Collect tax-deductible donations

  • Have ioby act as your project’s fiscal sponsor

  • Find new volunteers

  • Join us for grassroots fundraising trainings and workshops

Submit your idea and ioby will reach out to support you on your journey to making positive change in your Memphis neighborhood

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"This ioby project was a good case study identifying and addressing problems as a group. I learned that if you have a good idea and share it with other people, they will support you. And if you give them the opportunity, they will help. Memphis is one of the most unusual places I've lived, in that there's an expectation that people will take care of what's around them."

- Robyn Mace, ioby leader, Evergreen Rain Garden

 

About ioby Memphis

We love Memphis. We love the Grizzlies and our rock ‘n’ roll, but most of all we love Memphians. Since we began our on-the-ground work, ioby Memphis has supported more than 300 resident leaders as they plan, crowdfund, and build positive change in neighborhoods across the city. With a median donation of $50, ioby leaders have raised over $1,040,060 in small donations to make Memphis neighborhoods greener, safer, more livable, and more full of opportunity for all residents.

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We'll send you periodic updates about events, match funding opportunities, and awesome projects going on in your backyard!

 

Get your donations matched!

 

Memphis Neighborhoods Match Program: Binghampton, South City, and Medical District

Up to $2,000 in donations will be matched for residents of Binghampton, South City, or the Medical District when you crowdfund with ioby for a community project! Projects for this match program must be led by and serve residents in these zip codes: 38112, 38126, or 38103.

Learn more about the Memphis Neighborhoods Match Program

 

Donate to a project in your Memphis neighborhood

  • Grahamwood Artistic School Zones and Safety Plan

    Grahamwood Elementary wishes to make it safer for children to get to school. They will make the school zone visible by painting it, making artistic crosswalks, and installing flashing school zone lights.

    NEEDS: $0 of 15,500 + Volunteers
  • Garden Example, Tobacco Brown

    South Memphis Future & Funk Community Garden

    An Afrofuturistic-themed community garden and celebration that reimagines equitable housing and the importance of community and home in the Lauderdale Subdivision of South Memphis.

    NEEDS: $0 of 7,720 + Volunteers
  • Speedway Terrace Historic District Signage

    We are proud of our community and our history. As a local historic district we want to be able to share that fact with the world. Help us purchase signs for our neighborhood!

    NEEDS: $0 of 3,434
  • Boat Dock Rendering

    Paddle on the Greenway

    Help Wolf River Conservancy build a boat dock on the Wolf River Greenway. The boat dock will be open to the public and used to teach kids and adults how to canoe and kayak.

    NEEDS: $0 of 20,635
  • Carnes Butterfly Garden Fence

    We want to build a low garden fence to transition the railroad corridor located on Decatur Street into our Carnes Butterfly Garden.

    NEEDS: $0 of 348 + Volunteers
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    The Hospitality HUB Day Plaza

    The Hospitality HUB has secured a space for the first barrier-free women's shelter in Memphis, and is working to fund an adjacent Day Plaza for the homeless to rest safely and comfortably.

    NEEDS: $0 of 20,635
  • ID the Trees

    We want to add labels that identify native trees that have been planted in the Carnes School neighborhood over the last 18 months.

    NEEDS: $0 of 874
  • Gooch Park Rehab!

    Help us bring new life to Gooch Park!  Gooch Park and Pool is the site of the first African American bicycle rodeo in Memphis in June 1959. Elvis Presley was known to play basketball there.

     

    NEEDS: $0 of 2,212