Santa Cruz County Thriving Communities Match Program
Donations tripled for placemaking projects!
Santa Cruz County has been accepted into the Thriving Communities Program, a United States Department of Transportation program that helps communities across the country with technical assistance to grow long-term capacity, identify funding opportunities, and support placemaking and transportation projects that strengthen community. As part of this program, the Santa Cruz County Regional Transportation Commission, City of Watsonville, and Community Bridges are working with ioby to support community-led placemaking projects through crowdfunding match programs.
This new crowdfunding match program with ioby.org provides a one-on-one crowdfunding coach to teach you how to raise donations. Donations are then tripled instantly! That means a $50 donation turns into $150 total! Up to $1,000 per donor can be tripled. Up to $10,000 in match funding can be won by donors per organization.
Join the webinar on July 24th at 1pm
Do you have an idea to build a thriving future in Santa Cruz County? Nonprofits and community members are invited to submit projects that maintain and care for your community and its social fabric. Projects must take place within Santa Cruz County boundaries, with a focus on Watsonville-Area low-income and BIPOC neighborhoods.
Tell us your idea to get started!
Some of the project ideas that community members in Santa Cruz County have suggested include: transportation-focused art installations, planting trees and gardens to make it cooler where we walk, bike and pedestrian safety or engagement events, temporary installations of parklets that occupy a parking space next to a bus stop, pedestrian and bike safety projects like painted crosswalks, or your own community building ideas! Read the full eligibility for more:
Match funding is not reserved, it is won by donors. Matching will stop when this community matching grant is used up by local donors to all participants. As match funds begin to run low, ioby will inform participants via a series of emails.
When you crowdfund with an ioby match program, you'll get:
- Our free resources and guidance for how to crowdfund.
- A one-on-one ioby crowdfunding coach to teach you how to raise donations.
- While you crowdfund, donations will be multiplied instantly.
- We offer fiscal sponsorship to groups that are not a 501(c)3.
- Our fees are very low because we are a nonprofit.
- New to ioby match programs? Click here to read frequently asked questions.
Tell us your idea to get started!
Participants:
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Your ioby page here!
Start your own ioby crowdfunding campaign to be featured here! Donations are matched if your project is eligible for this ioby program.
NEEDS: $5,000 of 5,000
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ioby stands for “in our backyards,” but it also stands for taking care of each other, for civic participation, and for trusting neighbors to know what’s best for the neighborhood. Neighbors nationwide have raised over $18 million in grassroots philanthropy with ioby for projects that make their communities healthier, greener, safer, more vibrant, and more just. When you post a project on ioby you can collect tax-deductible donations, find new donors and volunteers, and receive one-on-one fundraising coaching. Learn more about how ioby match programs work.
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The Thriving Communities Program is administered by the Build America Bureau as part of its broader efforts to provide technical assistance to communities.
TCP facilitates the planning and development of transportation and community revitalization activities and provides tools to ensure that under-resourced communities can access the historic funding provided in the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law (BIL).
The Thriving Communities Program is part of the larger Federal Thriving Communities Initiative. USDOT is coordinating with other federal agencies through the Thriving Communities Network, including the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development along with the Department of Energy, the Environmental Protection Agency, and others. USDOT also invites partnerships with local and national philanthropic organizations to ensure that all communities can access funding resources and implement programs that help them to thrive.