COMMUNITY
IMPACT
At The Corry Community Foundation, we care about Corry and about making our community stronger and more vibrant by supporting local nonprofits. We support collaborative projects that promote system-level change while inspiring, engaging, and empowering the Corry community.
Neighborhood blight and the presence of vacant and abandoned properties have profound negative impacts on afflicted communities. Blighted properties decrease surrounding property values, erode the health of local housing markets, pose safety hazards, and reduce local tax revenue.
The Corry Neighborhood Initiative (CNI) and Impact Corry are working to help remediate blight in Corry. Impact Corry uses tools that focus on restoration and rehabilitation of homes that needed a little more curb appeal.
A grant from The Corry Community Foundation allowed Impact Corry to help homeowners with exterior home improvements through a 1:1 grant match of up to $5,000. By purchasing items like new windows, concrete, porches, and siding, 42 homes in the Schoolhouse Block and Park Place neighborhoods were restored.
Impact Corry also saw success in helping to revitalize Corry’s downtown area of Center and Main Streets with the Mission Main Street program, a program designed by the Erie County Gaming Revenue Authority that targets business corridors and downtown areas with a similar 1:1 match for commercial building façades. By using every available resource, Impact Corry is making our city a safer, brighter, and more desirable place to raise a family.
The Corry Community Foundation supported the Corry Area Arts Council with a $9,000 grant in 2024. Through exhibits, performances, and musical productions, the Corry Area Arts Council enriches the community. The summer concert series is a significant community asset that brings crowds of all ages to the Corry City Park for weekly events. The council also includes an Artist’s Guild and Arts Council Auxiliary, which brought the Missoula Theatre program to Corry for a weeklong festival and live stage performance.
Engaging our residents with live music, providing youth with new artistic mediums to explore, and bringing the magic of all aspects of a live performance are what the Arts Council and its subsidiaries do best. The Arts Council builds our community weekly at an event where our residents from all socioeconomic backgrounds come together to talk, sing, dance, and connect with each other.
Corry Community Foundation participates in Erie Gives, a project of The Erie Community Foundation and its community partners. Corry residents can donate to their favorite non-profits as part of the twenty-four hours of giving. Twenty-eight Corry nonprofits participated in Erie Gives, which raised $208,158 for Corry nonprofits in 2024. The Corry Community Foundation enhanced each donor’s gifts with bonus bucks by donating $25,000 to honor the Foundation’s 25-year anniversary.
