2024 Community Match Fund Annual Report

Sustainable CT's Community Match Fund is an innovative crowdgranting program building more sustainable, healthy, and vibrant communities across Connecticut. Learn more in the 2024 Annual Report.

Sustainable CT's Community Match Fund is an innovative crowdgranting program building more sustainable, healthy, and vibrant communities across Connecticut.

Whether you’re dreaming of more green spaces, solar for public areas, greenways for biking and walking, murals and other public art, green jobs programs, or community gardens, the Community Match Fund can help. We provide fast, flexible funding and support for sustainability projects that engage your Connecticut community and bring your great idea to reality.

How It Works

Unlike traditional funding programs, the Community Match Fund is focused on decreasing the hurdles community leaders often face when applying for grants. The Community Match Fund has no traditional grant application, no deadlines, no lengthy review period, and minimal reporting requirements.

Projects are assessed and approved based on simple and objective eligibility criteria, irrespective of the person or group proposing the project. The program is structured to support and amplify grassroots efforts that strive to transform their community, neighborhood, and town for the better.

1. Changemakers identify an opportunity for growth or change in their community and meet with the team at Sustainable CT to discuss their project idea.
2. Patronicity administers the Community Match Fund program and provides an easy-to-use crowdfunding platform with one-on-one project coaching, helping communities develop a strategy to reach their fundraising goals and engage their community.
3. Community members buy-in and support projects with their dollars. Crowdfunding democratizes access to capital, allowing local residents and organizations to create the change they want to see in their community.
4. If an approved crowdfunding project reaches its goal, the project receives a matching grant from Sustainable CT of up to $7,500 to further the project’s impact on the community.

The program is eligible for projects that align with Sustainable CT actions, are in a Sustainable CT registered municipality, are free and publicly accessible, and are led by individual residents, nonprofits, community groups, municipalities, schools, or libraries. This program was designed with grassroots groups in mind, and the team at Sustainable CT is excited to work with anyone interested in getting their idea off the ground.

Learn more about the program by downloading the 2024 Community Match Fund Annual Report.