Erin Fessler

Erin Fessler

Vice President of Marketing and Community/ Government Relations at The Erie Community Foundation

With over 20 years of experience, Erin D. Fessler, Vice President of Marketing and Community/ Government Relations at The Erie Community Foundation, manage the organization's advertising, media relations, newsletters, electronic communications, website, Facebook and twitter media. She is also responsible for two major Foundation events: the Annual Meeting and Erie Gives, which continues to grow each year by $500,000 or more and broke records in 2019 by raising over $5.5 Million for nearly 400 nonprofits. Erin earned her B.S. degree in Communications with a minor in Psychology from John Carroll University. After graduation, she worked as the promotions assistant at WSEE TV 35, the public relations director for the Community Blood Bank, and assistant vice president in Corporate Communications for PNC Bank. She is a founding board member of the NWPA chapter of the Public Relations Society of America. She served as treasurer in 2012 and 2013, and in 2014 she was the chapter President. She currently serves as a board member of the YMCA Metro Board and marketing committee member for Camp Notre Dame.