Welcome to PatchWorks

Patch is proud to announce the launch of PatchWorks, a new neighborhood platform that can help you raise money and recruit volunteers.

Through PatchWorks, your neighbors can create, share and celebrate local projects and causes with the community.

The platform allows participants to recruit and sign up volunteers, collect money online and set up ways to collect donations.

Check out the first local projects to be supported by PatchWorks:

• Greenwich Community Gardens is doing fundraising for a new community garden in Cos Cob.  They have raised $590 through PatchWorks. Their goal is to raise the funds needed to build the entire garden - fencing and gates, raised beds, shed, compost area and community area. This is an opportunity to be part of a growing local, food movement.
  
• Off-Beat Players is a non-profit theatre organization that brings together young people with disabilities and abilities  to work together in a performing arts program. Off-Beat Players have raised $235 through PatchWorks. Donations can make today in the lives of some very special young people.  
• The Greenwich Alliance for Education's Bridging The Digital Divide (BTDD) program helps GHS students who do not have the means to afford Internet access or a computer at home. The Digital Divide program has raised $345 through Patchworks so far.  The Alliance started the program in 2011 and five students received 12 months of access to on-line learning resources and tools (hardware, DSL connectivity and training.) Ten more students benefitted from the program this past school year. The Alliance is planning to add 20 students in the upcoming school year, withan estimated cost of  $1,000 per student. Candidates are nominated by guidance counselors as well as community partners such as the Boys and Girls Club.