Corry Area United Fund

Corry
Area United Fund, originally The United Fund of the Corry Area and the Corry
Community Chest was founded in November of 1947. The mission of the Corry
Community Chest was to raise funds to distribute to its member agencies, that
being non-profit organizations, clubs, and other entities in the Corry Area
that helped make the community a better place. Many times, these agencies
didn’t have the resources to always secure their own funding, which is where we
came in.

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Corry
Area United Fund has always been an autonomous organization, not affiliated
with any other United Way. The monies Corry raised stayed in Corry to help our
own citizens.

Since
inception, the organization has raised over 4.5 million dollars for social
service agencies in our community. Corry Area United Fund has strived to
maintain a budget of approximately 13% or less throughout its history.

The
mission of the Corry Area United Fund is to act as the coordinating hub for the
nonprofit sector within the Corry Area.  We:

•           Promote communication, cooperation
and collaboration among nonprofits to reduce duplication;

•           Help new nonprofits get established
when needed; 

•           Facilitate investment to address
priority community needs; and 

•           Evaluate the impact of those
investments. 

Our
Operating Model:

•           Solicit funding requests early each
year so that annual campaign goals can be set to meet the highest priority
community needs as identified by the selected agencies. 

•           Develop a fundraising goal and “case
for support” each year to raise funds for the highest priority community needs.
Funding these priorities will drive the campaign communications. 

•           Continue to engage employers to
conduct “employee payroll deduction” campaigns and encourage companies to match
employee contributions. 

•           Cultivate corporations that serve the
Area to contribute “match overall campaign contributions” as an incentive for
individual contributions.

•           Utilize our blitz model to hold
businesses accountable to promised donations.

•           Cultivate relationships with key
local merchants to facilitate individual contributions from patrons through:

o          Rounding up
purchases to the next dollar.

o          Percentage of gas
pump sales. 

o          Asking customers
to add $1, 2 and $5 to purchases to support the campaign.

o          Leaving
collection tins at businesses with high traffic.

With
your donations, we will continue to serve the Corry community for the
foreseeable future.