The City of Hartford and the Hartford Foundation for Public Giving are teaming up to offer a more comprehensive Love Your Block grant program including grants for projects led by residents and/or community partners. Together, we are looking for your ideas to help clean, green, and beautify Hartford neighborhoods this spring and summer. Ideas may be for project planning, implementation, and/or maintenance of past projects.
Ideas will be considered if they are feasible, align with resident/City plans for the neighborhood, and have the capacity to complete. In some cases, submissions may be connected to City departments, local nonprofits, or other groups, for technical assistance in planning or implementing before you are invited to submit an application.
Ideas that are selected to move forward after this initial review will be invited to submit a full application through either the City of Hartford (resident projects) or the Hartford Foundation for Public Giving (nonprofit projects). We plan to streamline both application processes to ensure they are manageable for community groups.
Please submit potential application ideas by March 10th using this online form. Note that we will continue to monitor the pandemic and its impact on potential projects.
Information sessions will be held to answer questions about the program and the application process. Please see our Info Sheet(PDF, 552KB) for additional information at www.hartfordct.gov/lybhartford