Project Spotlight: ioby Sacramento Arts & Culture Match Fund

The Office of Arts and Culture, in partnership with community crowdfunding nonprofit ioby, created an arts and cultural match program that allows community members to apply for up to $15,000 in matching funds for arts and culture projects.

The program is funded by Measure U dollars and stems from the City’s Creative Edge Plan to expand neighborhood-based programming and placemaking through community and artist-initiated projects.

180

Project ideas have been submitted to ioby from residents

$276,408

Has been raised by residents

$252,353

In matching funds have been allocated

50

Resident-led projects enrolled and fundraising

1,124

Local donations made to projects

68%

Of interested residents self-report that they or their group’s leadership identify as BIPOC

“The opportunity for the Sacramento Poderosa Project to participate in the 2022 Arts & Culture Match Program was not only a valuable tool for raising money, it was also a strategic way to build a strong network of support, and to connect with new supporters. Through ioby we also gained a national reach. The crowdsourcing page enabled us to showcase our mission, using the mural to tell the stories of inspirational Chicanx/Latinx women who have secured transformative, equitable, and accessible justice for all in the Sacramento region. We succeeded at being at the table of change to create communities of support.”