IMPACT: Quality of Place - Community Assets - Community Centers Grant

The IMPACT: Quality of Place initiative aims to enhance community well-being, encourage civic pride, and stimulate tourism in Erie County by supporting community centers. These centers are crucial hubs that offer vital services such as job training, education, and nutrition to residents, including children and seniors. By funding capital improvements and programming, the Erie County Gaming Revenue Authority seeks to strengthen these community assets and ensure they continue to serve diverse populations effectively.

To promote well-being, foster civic pride, drive tourism and attract, retain, and mobilize creative talent and innovative businesses through cultural, heritage, service, and recreational organizations and projects. Currently, grant and endowment funds are at work for Lead Assets, Special Events, Community Assets, and Human Services.
Community centers in Erie County have provided residents with basic health and well-being, job training, mentoring, education, nutrition, and other benefits to a large cross-section of the community. Strategically located, community centers are vital to rural and urban areas alike. ECGRA considers community centers to be a neighborhood or community hub whose primary focus is social, educational, cultural, and/or recreational activities serving a segment of the community such as children or senior citizens.
Purpose: To provide funding for capital improvements, programming, and equipment for publicly accessible community centers.