An impact investor, the Erie County Gaming Revenue Authority (ECGRA) aims to elevate Erie County, Pennsylvania, by empowering nonprofits and small businesses toward economic and community development. Since February 2008, ECGRA has invested more than $77 million in Erie County.
The ECGRA invites applications for its Community Centers grants program. 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.
Through the program, grants of up to $15,000 will be awarded in support of capital improvements and programming that provides social, educational, cultural, health, recreation, and/or economic benefits to residents of Erie County. ECGRA considers community centers to be a neighborhood or community hub with a primary focus of social, educational, cultural, and/or recreational activities serving a segment of the community such as children or senior citizens…