Round Four of the Local Sustainability Matching Fund is accepting applications. The goal of the fund is to encourage partnerships between local government sustainability directors and local, place-based foundations. Each partnership selected will receive an investment between $25,000 and $75,000, as long as the requirement of a 1:1 match by at least one local foundation is met.

The Fund was originally a collaboration between the Funder’s Network for Smart Growth and Livable Communities and the Urban Sustainability Directors Network. Now a project of the Funder’s Network, the fund is supported by the Bloomberg Philanthropies, JPB Foundation, Kendeda Fund, John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, New York Community Trust, Summit Foundation, and Surdna Foundation.

The application deadline for Round 4 is January 8, 2014, and awards will be announced on March 31, 2014.

More information is available at the Idea Bank, which highlights summaries of proposals submitted in prior rounds; you can also learn about previously awarded grants.

For more information, contact Ann Wallace (ann@fundersnetwork.org) or call 617-524-9239.