We are invested in helping you build vibrant communities. We’ve developed resources on placemaking, crowdfunding, and crowdgranting to provide you with inspiration, how-to guides, research, and more, to support your efforts to better where you live, work, and play.
When you’re ready to get started, we’re here to help you get your project off the ground! Whether it’s a grassroots crowdfunding campaign to build a new playground or grow your business, or a new statewide grant program to support local community and economic development – we’re here to help.
Learn how communities are implementing crowdgranting to reach their community and economic development goals.
Better Places is empowering Vermonters to create vibrant public spaces. The Vermont Community Foundation recently visited several community leaders that participated in the program.
My Community, My Vision provides a new vision for connecting young people in Indiana to the places they live and allowing them the opportunity to make a positive impact in their communities.
Epsilon Spires, an arts gallery and venue on Brattleboro’s Main Street, identified the entrance to Brattleboro’s downtown needed activation and took action to bring a new mural to town.
Find success stories and inspiration from people and places building vibrant communities.
At Patronicity, we believe that passionate individuals can spur change in their communities. We recently spoke with Diana Martinez to learn more about her passion for her Middletown community and how she serves as a Patron in the City.
At Patronicity, we believe that passionate individuals can spur change in their communities. We recently spoke with Polina Osherov to learn more about her passion for community and how she serves as a Patron in the City.
At Patronicity, we believe that passionate individuals can spur change in their communities. We recently spoke with Anna Colby to learn more about her passion for her Lansing community and how she serves as a Patron in the City.
Resources to help you run a successful crowdfunding campaign.
We’ll show you how to build your project budget and set your crowdfunding campaign goal.
Crowdfunding is a revolutionary tool for fundraising in the 21st century. We'll help you decide if crowdfunding is right for you.
When your crowdfunding campaign is orchestrated to perfection your team will stay on beat to reach your goals. But how do you get the timing right? We will help you artfully arrange your campaign to get the timing right.
Find placemaking resources, best practices, and the latest trends in the field.
We share 10 of our favorite community center and venue projects since 2013.
We share 10 of our favorite alley and streetscape projects since 2013.
We share 10 of our favorite community accessibility projects since 2013.