With the countdown to 2020 most definitely upon us, we realize that you may be making some final plans for year-end giving. Please know that the Quad Cities Community Foundation is here to assist you in facilitating your generosity in a seamless way.
Read MoreThe Quad Cities Community Foundation aspires to be the most trusted resource for community generosity. And one of the ways we can be generous today so that our region thrives well into the future is through the endowment building work we do.
Read MoreEarlier this month in our e-newsletter, we were pleased to share a story of generosity. I hope you were able to look through the diverse, lengthy list of nonprofits that Quad Citizen and Quad Cities Community Foundation Donor Maggie Tinsman has contributed to.
Read MoreWe anticipate it each year: that fresh start in January when we turn the page and take a moment to look inward. As you do that this month, join me in not being distracted by the noise around us—a world at times enamored by who is doing what and where.
Read MoreThe weather decided quickly to go from fall to winter. Just as we were all getting back from Thanksgiving travel, we witnessed not just the first snowflake but a full blown BLIZZARD!
Read MoreNext week, I will have the honor of attending the fall conference of Forward Cities and I can’t help but think part of their title is our battle cry here at the Community Foundation.
Read MoreEarlier this week, there was a beautiful bouquet of flowers delivered to my desk.
It was from the Community Foundation team to mark a milestone in my life—and my family’s life.
Read MoreI love this place. It is community. It is home. It has everything we need (especially now because our daughter and husband just recently moved to the Quad Cities!).
Read MoreMy dad’s service club lived by a saying that continues to stick with me: “By changing the lives of others, our life is inevitably changed.”
Read MoreIt’s impossible to miss—the conversation surrounding violence in communities across the United States. From neighborhood disputes to school shootings, the Quad Cities is not immune, to the violence or the conversation.
Read MoreI’ll never forget the day the word diversity took on new meaning for me. Nearly two decades ago, I heard Juana Bordas speak and her words inspired me in such a profound way that the lens through which I looked at community in my personal and professional life changed.
Read MoreThe best way for our Community Foundation to make good decisions about the resources that have been entrusted to us is to leave it in the care of a board of directors that are professionals with diverse backgrounds and leaders committed, passionate and reflective of people in our region.
Read MoreIdeas. The good ones are like snowballs. It just takes one, a little push of inspiration and off it goes, growing greater with every roll.
Read MoreWith the countdown to 2018 on, we realize that you may be making some final plans for year-end giving. Please know that the Quad Cities Community Foundation is here to assist you in facilitating your generosity in a seamless way.
Read MoreWe're in a season of gratefulness and that's exactly where my head and heart were when I returned from a recent trip to Phoenix, Arizona, for the CEO for Cities National Conference.
Read MoreWe're in a season of gratefulness and that's exactly where my head and heart were when I returned from a recent trip to Phoenix, Arizona, for the CEO for Cities National Conference.
Read MoreIf you’re like me, there’s a certain nostalgia when autumn arrives. Fall ushers in a season of transformation, of change—the weather, leaves, harvest and migration.
Read MoreChange. Growth. Transformation.
If you’re like me, there’s a certain nostalgia when autumn arrives. Fall ushers in a season of transformation, of change—the weather, leaves, harvest and migration.
Read MoreWe are standing on the cusp of a tremendous opportunity. Right now, America is experiencing one of the largest transfers of wealth in history—from one person to a beneficiary, and the depth of good that it could do for the people in the Quad Cities is unimaginable.
Read MoreIf you are reading this from the comfort and safety of your home or office, I am grateful, for as I write this we know thousands of Americans are reeling from the second catastrophic hurricane to hit our shores in the last three weeks.
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