Who We Are

The CommunityMatters® initiative was founded by, and is currently supported by, the Orton Family Foundation. CommunityMatters is actively seeking additional partners to help grow and diversify the conference and online community.

If you are interested in becoming a CommunityMatters Partner and helping to design, support and grow this unique initiative, please contact us at info@communitymatters.org

About Our Partners



Orton Family FoundationThe Orton Family Foundation, based in Middlebury, Vermont, and Denver, Colorado, seeks to help small cities and towns discover and describe their heart and soul—the collective attributes that make communities unique—and build on those attributes in planning toward a vibrant, enduring future.