Funders Forum

Share common interests, concerns and lessons learned with others.

The Community Foundation partners with philanthropic leaders in the Quad Cities to facilitate discussions that allow other grantmaking organizations to ask questions, share best practices, and explore cooperative efforts.

Membership is comprised of key representatives from all philanthropic sectors, including:

Funders Forum meetings happen over lunch and are structured around scheduled discussion topics led by one of the members of the group, always leaving time for open discussion and networking. The member leading the discussion may bring a guest from a nonprofit organization to help present information on a particular topic, but Funders Forum will not be an opportunity to request funding.

Past Meeting Topics

• Evaluating Capacity Building Programs

• Addressing the Increase in Food Insecurity

• Violence Prevention efforts

• Incorporating an Equity Lens in Grantmaking

• Pandemic Recovery Efforts and Alignment

• QC Funding Landscape Study – Results and Future

• Opportunity Zones and Philanthropy

• Flood Recovery Efforts and Alignment

• Quad Cities Regional Education Outlook

• Funder Missions

• The 2020 Census

• Conditions for Successful Collaborations

• United Way funding priorities

• Out of School Time Programs

• Smarter Grantmaking

• Grant application processes that work for you and your applicants

• Supporting Education - Outside the Classroom

• Story of an Emergency Grant: Turning the worst thing that could have happened into the best thing

• Cool, Creative, Connected, and Prosperous - Where do you fit in the Q2030 Regional Action Plan?

• Sharing Impact: "Do good. Then tell people about it."

• Financial Institutions Investing in our Community

Learn more

To learn more about Funders Forum, or to be placed on the mailing list please contact Daisy Moran.