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Fund for Land Equity

Invest in Your Community,
Borrow for Local Projects, &
Support Fair Access to Capital

Southeastern Connecticut Fund for Land Equity

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The Southeastern Connecticut Fund for Land Equity is a joint project of Equity Trust and the Southeastern Connecticut Community Land Trust. The SE CT Fund for Land Equity supports and promotes a sustainable, just, regional economy in Southeastern Connecticut.

As a revolving community loan fund, we help our neighbors meet the needs of our community, create new opportunities, and restore the land to health. Priority is given to projects that maintain permanent affordability.

 

The SE CT Fund for Land Equity is an opportunity for:

  • Individuals and/or family with savings

  • Faith-based congregations with endowment funds

  • Financial institutions committed to socially responsible investment

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The Fund provides acquisition and development funds through bridge loan funds so these opportunities can become realities:

  • To support collaborative efforts to assist people in building economic resources and services in their local communities.

  • To support the creation of equity by groups historically excluded from economic development opportunities.

  • To promote environmental preservation.

  • To support a sustainable, regional food supply through local farming.

  • To develop small-scale, local enterprises.

The SE CT Fund for Land Equity has provided loans to the SE CT CLT for affordable housing and community facilities.

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How it works

Funds are contributed by community members and pooled into a revolving loan fund.

  • You lend money for a fixed term (often 1–10 years).

  • Interest rates can range from 0%–2% depending on length of term (many choose 0% as a values-based investment).

  • Funds are recycled into future community projects.

  • You can also give a tax-deductible donation to the fund to help build up the permanent capital.

For more than 25 years, the Equity Trust Fund—of which this Fund is a part—has never failed to repay lenders.

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Request a Loan

If you would like to request a loan from the Fund for Land Equity, please tell us about your project by filling out this initial application form and emailing it to info@sectclt.org or mailing it to:

32 Broad St.
New London, CT 06360

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Make a Social Investment

If you would like to support the Fund for Land Equity with a social investment, please fill out this loan offer form and email it to Equity Trust or mail it to:

PO Box 746
Amherst, MA 01004

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Learn More

Read about some of the good work we have helped to fund.

(Brochure)

For more information on the Fund and how you can support the Fund with a social investment, see:

https://equitytrust.org/sect-fund/

CONTACT US

ANNUAL  REPORT

860-772-4012

info@sectclt.org

32 Broad Street, New London CT 06320

SE CT CLT Land Acknowledgement

The SE CT CLT  recognizes that Indigenous people have lived and cared for this region for thousands of years before the setters. Their understanding of land as a shared responsibility, supporting both human and non-human life, stands in contrast with the settler colonial concept of private property.

 

We acknowledge that the transformation of land into a commodity has brought wealth to some while causing deep harm, displacement, and loss to others. As a Community Land Trust, we hold title to land within this system and recognize the complexity of that responsibility.

 

We aim to move from extractive ownership models toward community-based stewardship, and we are committed to working respectfully and collaboratively with Indigenous partners to build a more just and sustainable future for land access in Southeastern Connecticut.

© 2025 SE CT CLT

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