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Shaping Tomorrow

Shaping Tomorrow

A Community Collaboration

"Coming together is a beginning. Keeping together is progress.
Working together is success." – Henry Ford

The Erie Community Foundation is currently working with the United Way of Erie County, The Erie Regional Chamber and Growth Partnership and The Nonprofit Partnership to collaboratively identify a manageable number of community-wide key indicators.

Once complete, our local institution of higher education will be working to help track chosen indicators, identify related national best practices and tee-up scalable pilot projects that can be tested and developed into promising solutions for all of Erie county.

Thanks to funding from The Black Family Foundation, all this work will be posted on our website via a microsite entitled Erie Vital Signs. You willl be able to track our communities progress and learn how our grants are helping nonprofits address our most challenging needs. The Erie Community Foundation will also be publishing periodic “community report” cards as a way to highlight both successes and areas for improvement.

It’s a new way of doing business in our community. Working together, we are improving the quality of life throughout the region. Click here to share your input with us on community issues.