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Annual Report 2014-2015 Table of Contents ANNUAL REPORT 2014-2015 TABLE OF CONTENTS A Message from Dave and Perry ...........................................................................3 Financial Report ...................................................................................................4 IMPACT: Neighborhoods & Local Communities ................................................6 IMPACT: Municipalities ....................................................................................10 IMPACT Investing: 5 Key Areas ........................................................................12 IMPACT: Small Business ...................................................................................14 IMPACT: Quality of Place .................................................................................16 IMPACT: Education & Youth ............................................................................22 Board and Staff Members ...................................................................................23 Grantee: Waterford Community Fair Association Grant: $3,600 Project: Expand service to its 6,300 entrants A Message from Dave & Perry Impact investing is not a new concept. The Rockefeller, George Gund, and F.B. Heron foundations have been investing funds to drive social, cultural, and environmental change and maximize financial returns since the 1990s. Through impact investing, these groups have been able to realize larger gains toward their mission. This movement has recently caught fire and is now being adopted by foundations, brokers, philanthropists, and thought leaders around the world. In 2014, the ECGRA board of directors adopted an Impact Investing Policy and began rethinking how it put gaming funds to work in Erie County. At a time when financial returns are generally most highly regarded, we’re making targeted investments to change the life trajectory of residents in local communities. In Corry, we’re piloting a neighborhood renewal initiative to elevate blighted neighborhoods (pg. 6). Across the county, we piloted a summer jobs program for disconnected youth (pg. 22). In our cities and boroughs, we’re fostering small business growth (pg. 14) and main street renewal (pg. 8). And throughout our county, we’re igniting innovation and entrepreneurship and empowering nonprofits. In the past 12 months, we’ve learned three very important lessons: productive collaborations between residents, local government, and business can vastly improve communities; relatively small, focused amounts of funding can positively shape the lives of Erie County residents; and looking beyond short-term gains and focusing on sustainable, systemic change are key to transforming Erie County. We look forward to reporting short- and long-term outcomes as we continue to make impact investments in our community. In service, David S. Sample, Chairman Perry N. Wood, Executive Director 4 FINANCIALreport ASSETS Checking Account $27,408.89 Savings Account $13,168,436.17 Accounts Receivable $1,350,000.00 Prepaid Expenses $7,610.00 TOTAL ASSETS $14,553,455.06 EQUITY Beginning Balance $13,954,151.01 Net Income $599,304.05 Grants Issued $4,729,588.02 Community Assets ($172,542.00) Corry Neighborhood Renewal Pilot ($20,000.00) Human Services ($69,208.00) Lead Assets ($970,217.59) Lead Assets Endowment ($1,373,646.00) Local Government Development ($1,383,095.43) Mission Main Street ($77,530.00) Multi-Municipal Collaboration ($242,987.00) Small Business Financing ($150,000.00) Erie County Council establishes ECGRA as an economic Special Events ($160,362.00) development financing authority Summer Jobs & More Pilot ($110,000.00) $15M TOTAL EQUITY $14,553,455.06 2008 2009 Makes initial investment of $3.5 million in Local Government Development; $15 million invested to date $2,745,975 Local Government Development $1,383,095 2010 $1,626,082 Lead Assets Endowment $1,373,646 Association ofPennsylvania CountyCommissioners from Award Receives President’s Lead Assets $970,217 Multi-Municipal Collaboration $242,987 by IMPACT by INVESTED TOTAL Community Assets $172,542 2011 Special Events $160,362 ups and manufacturers; eight small businesses fortifiedto date ups and manufacturers; Partners andcommits$700,000 tocatalyzetechstart- Technology ErieInnovationFund incollaborationwithBenFranklin Creates Small Business Financing $150,000 Summer Jobs & More Program $110,000 Mission Main Street $77,530 $150,000 Human Services $69,208 $110,000 Corry Neighborhood $97,530 Renewal Pilot $20,000 5 6 “Successful revitalization creates a neighborhood whose conditions help enable all of the residents to succeed economically and socially.” Sean Zielenbach, author of The Art of Revitalization: Improving Conditions in Distressed Inner-City Neighborhoods Invests $525,000 in Makes first Human Services Grant in Erie Innovation Fund; partnership with The Erie Community $1,462,500 invested to date Foundation; $476,000 has been invested 2011 Chuck Peters named board chair Opens first-ever Names and invests $1.3 million in Special Events Grants; $ grants in nine Erie County Lead Assets; $733,000 invested to date 2.9M $2.9 million in grants invested to date 7 IMPACT NEIGHBORHOODS & LOCAL COMMUNITIES 2014 PILOT: Over the past two decades, the city In its first six months, the pilot reported impressive of Corry has experienced the dual decline of its outcomes: CNI demolished two blighted properties, housing stock and its tax base. Closed businesses and formed a citizens action group, and kicked off Corry lost jobs have resulted in increased poverty, declining Cares, a campaign to raise funds for neighborhood population, and growing vacancy and blight. The renewal. In December, ECGRA joined forces with median household income of Corry residents is the Corry Industrial Benefit Association to create $30,677 compared to Pennsylvania residents’ median a $100,000 revolving loan fund to help qualifying HHI of $52,267. Approximately 26% of the Corry homeowners make energy- and money-saving Corry population lives below the poverty level*— home improvements. twice the Pennsylvania average. Of the 2,808 *Figures come from the American Communities Surveys 5-year estimates housing units in Corry, more than 11% are distressed for 2012 and door-to-door surveys by the Corry Neighborhood Initiative. or vacant*. Blight deters new talent and businesses from moving to Corry; declining property values provide little funding to the school district and city in the form of taxes. Corry Neighborhood Renewal officials WATCH IN will continue their work with more In April, ECGRA and The Corry Community than 40 owners in Corry’s first ward to Foundation invested $40,000 to launch the Corry 2015 bring properties into compliance with Neighborhood Renewal pilot program and fuel a code standards or plan demolition. powerful partnership in which the Bayfront East Side Taskforce serves as exemplar to the Corry Neighborhood Initiative (CNI). Using ECGRA funds, Erie Zoo Invests $94,000 in Erie County Special presents Wild Wednesdays Events; $733,000 invested to date Erie Art Museum uses ECGRA funds $ Exceeds $10 million Begins funding Erie County’s heritage and ethnic festivals to offer free admission and family- 10M invested in Erie County through Special Events Grants; to date, ECGRA has funded friendly activities at Second Sundays German, Irish, Italian, Polish, Russian, and Scottish festivals 8 GRANTEES GRANTS PROJECTS Corry Community $9,850 Install educational sidewalk panels, outdoor Development benches, and planters; expand décor to drive Corporation shoppers to “A Very Merry Corry Christmas,” the Corry Area Chamber of Commerce’s small business initiative; produce a marketing video Downtown North $15,000 Improve facades on 10 downtown businesses East Inc. Erie Downtown $15,000 In collaboration with ECGRA and the Partnership Inc. Pennsylvania Department of Community and Main streets are at the heart of many of our Economic Development, improve facades on municipalities and sound the pulse of our 15 downtown businesses community. ECGRA’s Mission Main Street Grants, launched in 2013, revitalize Erie County main Fort LeBoeuf $3,180 Install iron hand rails and gutters, repair the corridors—home to small businesses, special events, Historical Society roof, and purchase lawn mowers for grounds historic structures, and central parks—and ultimately maintenance at the historic Eagle Hotel in drive job creation, boost population, and promote Waterford tourism. This year, ECGRA invested $77,530 to renew commercial corridors. McKean Borough $12,500 Replace 630 feet of dilapidated walking and storefront sidewalk along Main Street Union City $15,000 Construct a recreational pavilion and rehab a Community vacant downtown lot; install signage, planters, House Association flowers, and trees for Community Days, Union City in Bloom, and “Buy Local” campaign Waterford Borough $7,000 Landscape and hardscape around the community gazebo built in Municipal Park (built with a 2012-13 MMS grant) Launches UChoose Grants; $90,000 total invested in nine projects chosen by community voting 2011 Opens first-ever Erie County Historical Society uses ECGRA funds Community Assets Grants to host NASA Astronaut Colonel Michael Fincke 9 Grantee: Downtown North East Inc. Grant: $15,000 Project: Improve facades on 10 downtown businesses Photo by: Mark Fainstein Invests $151,000 in Erie County Community Assets; $630,00 has been invested Enterprise Development Fund uses Begins funding Erie County’s fairs through Community Assets Grants; ECGRA Small Business Financing funds to date,
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