City of Seattle set aside general fund and Community Development Block Grant money to create the fund 6 years ago.
Citizens plan, create and manage the projects.
Citizens also make finding recommendations each year to the Mayor and the City Council. The Neighborhood Matching Fund has helped support over 500 citizen-initiated projects, including planting street trees, creating murals on graffiti covered walls, building playgrounds, drafting neighborhood plans, and creating community schools. In 1992, the Fund was recognized as one of the nation's most innovative state and local government programs by the Ford Foundation and Harvard's Kennedy School of Government. Jan Kumasaka 700 3rd Ave.