The Connecticut Project invests $2.1M in Frontdoor Benefits

Plus SNAP program changes, simplified benefits applications and more

Jun 04, 2025

Charlotte here. I’m thrilled to share the news that The Connecticut Project (TCP) has invested $2.1M in Frontdoor Benefits. Here’s the full press release – and a clip here:

HARTFORD, Conn., June 4, 2025 – Frontdoor Benefits, a public benefit corporation using technology and private-sector partnerships to improve how low-income Americans access social safety net programs like SNAP, has received a $2.1 million investment from The Connecticut Project.
The investment supports Frontdoor Benefits’ work to modernize how public benefits are delivered by simplifying and digitizing enrollment and renewal, and by involving private sector partners like grocery stores that have a stake in increasing benefits enrollment. The partnership aligns with The Connecticut Project's broader strategy to promote economic stability and opportunity for working class people.

We’re thrilled to have TCP’s investment and partnership. When I left my role in state government in Connecticut to get my MBA, my teammates in the Governor’s Office made me promise that when I built Frontdoor Benefits we’d launch in CT first. It’s been a real joy in the work to be back in CT as our launch state, helping families in communities I care about deeply enroll in SNAP. The investment from The Connecticut Project will fuel both our scaling up our work in CT and our expanding across states in the chapter ahead.

Before I hand it over to Ben – on my side, a question that’s coming up a lot these days is: What’s going to happen to SNAP under the Trump administration? How are the changes I’m hearing about in the news going to impact Frontdoor Benefits?

There is a lot here, including the real, devastating impacts of narrowing eligibility, shrinking benefit award amounts, and forcing state departments to kick deserving families off SNAP. But the piece I want to share is a few lines from an email thread – in a conversation along the lines of the above – that I sent last week and that captures the core of my thoughts here:

Honestly though - when I think about the changes coming down the pipe - my deep conviction is that our work will only be more needed over the next four years. This NYT op ed by Don Moynihan and Pamela Herd does a good job explaining why.
Essentially, beyond the actual changes above, much of what the feds are proposing for Medicaid and SNAP is creating more paperwork and hurdles – more administrative burdens that will passively kick eligible people off the programs. At the same time, they’re weakening the infrastructure that should be improving the actual government websites and systems and hamstringing state govts along the way. All of this only makes the work we’re building more critical – work that is, from the start and to the end, about helping eligible people get enrolled.

We’re already preparing to help families navigate the new rules and regulations; for instance, helping our clients easily complete new required paperwork around work requirements. We know that these second-order impacts – the redoubled confusion and uncertainty and piles of new paperwork – are going to hit every single person currently enrolled in SNAP hard. That’s 40M+ low-income Americans who will be navigating accessing benefits in the months and years ahead. And it’s exactly what we’ve been building for all along.

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Ben here. We’ve published a few items on our Substack that we didn’t email to subscribers, simply for fear of blowing up your inbox too much. I’ve written two pieces since our last email blast that I’ll shout out here: