Strengthen Community Connections
- Local discovery ecosystem: Stories, events, organizations, businesses, attractions, and promotions create multiple ways into the community and pathways among them. Fresh, connected local content supports search visibility and community discovery.
- Shop Local: Searchable business directory with maps, directions, and recognition of community support.
- Experience Local: Discover attractions, local experiences, and places to visit through searchable listings and interactive maps.
- Get Involved!: Organization directory connecting residents with groups serving the community.
- Community events: Crowd-sourced calendar connected to participating organizations and businesses.
- Support Local: Highlight fundraisers and timely community needs.
- Pop In!: A living community scrapbook where residents and visitors share experiences, preserve local stories, and discover the places that matter to the community.
Capture Community Stories
Every community has stories worth preserving. Corner Store's AI-assisted Community Reporter, Walter, guides contributors through structured conversations to capture local knowledge, community history, and organizational impact. Rather than starting with a blank page, contributors answer thoughtful questions while Walter helps organize the information into clear, community-ready stories. Walter helps communities preserve their history while making it easier for organizations and volunteers to share what they're doing today.
- Capture your community's stories: events, neighbors, heritage, impact, new beginnings
- Tag organizations or businesses for a dynamic feed to showcase relevance and contributions
- Preserve business heritage and local history
- Share fundraiser outcomes and impact reports
- Create Newsletter-ready updates
- Recognize neighbors that have impacted the community
Multiple Paths to Grow Local Visibility
- Business directory listing in Community Directory is searchable by keyword
- ShareListing is searchable by keyword and limited to local businesses
- Recognition when your business is tagged in a community story
- Badge recognition for supporting local organization fundraisers
- Dashboard to track coupon redemption (with coupon sponsorship)
- Live directions to your business from community directory, coupons, and promotions
- With Membership: Business page, promotions, preferred search visibility, and promotion dashboard
Inspire Participation
- Help your community discover what your organization is doing locally - and how to get involved
- Connect your events and meetings to the community calendar
- Showcase your community impact with tagged community stories
- Create multiple paths for residents to discover your organization through the community around it
- With Membership: Dynamic public organization page with stories and events feed
- Add on: Member directory, org-scoped events and stories with dynamic page feed
- Add on: Resource Hub as an interactive space to collect questions, share resources, gather experiences, and engage your community.
- By request: Digital coupon fundraiser program; additional digital fundraising tools
Help Local Dollars Do Local Good
Corner Store helps organizations and communities create digital books that connect people with local businesses, attractions, and experiences. From coupon book fundraisers to Small Business Saturday campaigns and visitor guides, flexible digital books make it easier to promote participation, support local organizations, and encourage community discovery.
- Flexible digital books: Combine participating businesses, attractions, offers, and community information.
- Fundraising campaigns: Organizations can sell digital coupon books to raise funds while supporting local businesses.
- Local participation: Invite businesses and attractions to participate in community campaigns.
- Search and maps: Help visitors find participating locations, explore offers, and get directions.
- Campaign management: Track coupon redemptions and campaign performance where applicable.
- Business recognition: Highlight participating businesses and their support for community initiatives.
- Business dashboards: Participating businesses can manage offers and track redemptions.
Connectivity and a Sense of Place
Communities are more than places--they are relationships, traditions, and shared stories. Corner Store helps strengthen those connections by making local businesses, organizations, events, opportunities, and community heritage easy to discover and share.
Corner Store began as an effort to modernize a community coupon fundraiser. Along the way, it became clear that the same platform could help communities do much more -- connecting businesses, organizations, residents, local stories, and opportunities, while recognizing the impact these connections make on the people of the community.
Communities deserve information that is useful, trustworthy, and easy to discover. Corner Store is designed around curated community content rather than engagement-driven feeds. Instead of rewarding outrage, politics, or endless scrolling, the platform highlights local businesses, organizations, events, opportunities, and stories that strengthen the community. Our goal isn't to maximize clicks. It's to make it easier to discover what matters locally.