Community AI Directory
AI Support & Opportunities for Communities
Funding, training, tools, and technical help for the people who usually get left out of the AI conversation — community leaders, informal groups without nonprofit status, fiscally sponsored projects, small nonprofits, libraries, schools, and Connecticut organizations.
Every entry was checked against the official source, and the notes say plainly what a program actually gives you, what it costs once the free part ends, and whether you can apply at all. Search it, filter it, and take the next step listed on the entry.
Every entry is one of three, by how you get in
Open to anyone
No application. Sign up, enroll, or download it today, provided you meet the stated terms. Start here if you need something this week.
By application
There is a real application, cycle, or review. Worth the effort, but plan for lead time and read the eligibility line closely.
By introduction
No cold applications. Access runs through an employee, partner, or nomination. Listed so you know it exists and how to get introduced.
Search the whole directory, or narrow it with any of these. They all work together, and every filter can hold more than one answer.
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Why This Exists
Most of this money and help never reaches the people it is meant for.
Written for the organization that does not have a grant writer
Program pages are written for institutions with development staff. Each entry here is restated in plain language: what you actually get, who can actually apply, and what the first step is if you decide to pursue it.
The catch, said out loud
“Free” often means discounted, credits that expire into a bill, or a tool you cannot leave once your data is inside it. Where that is true, the entry says so under “Watch out for” rather than leaving you to find out after you have committed.
Three ways in, named honestly
A good share of this list cannot be applied to cold at all — access runs through an employee, a partner, or a nomination. Hiding that wastes your afternoon. Those are listed anyway, marked by introduction, so you know they exist and how introductions actually happen.
Checked, dated, and curated by one person
Every entry was read against its official source and carries the date it was last checked. Nothing is auto-scraped into this list. Programs still change their terms without notice, so treat the official page as the authority and this as the map to it.
How to read an entry. “Watch out for” is the honest caveat — a program that is discounted rather than free, credits that expire into a bill, or a funder you cannot approach cold. “Suggested next step” is the concrete thing to do if you want to pursue it.
Verify before you apply. Programs change their terms, cycles, and pricing without notice. Each entry links to its official source and shows the date it was last checked — treat that source, not this page, as the authority.
Maintained by Darice Corey. Spotted something out of date, or running a program that belongs here? Send it over.