A huge leap into the 21st century is the way Steve Miller describes the impact on Sherrard Community Unit School District #200 when it was awarded a technology grant from the Looser-Flake Charitable Foundation…
Read MoreFive Quad-City non-profit organizations can access a matching $15,000 grant from the Quad Cities Community Foundation after they raise $15,000.
Read MoreMikhayla Hughes-Shaw and Elise Edens struggled with deep depression and social anxiety in high school, but they have emerged in a better place, each working to help other young people triumph over their demons.
Read MoreThe Hubbell-Waterman Foundation, a charitable trust in the Quad Cities that recently celebrated 50 years supporting culture and the arts, early childhood education and social welfare, is now partnering with the Quad Cities Community Foundation for its annual grantmaking program.
Read MoreValerie Davis loves the feedback she gets from the students who complete Great Sounds Promotions’ annual Youth Education Music Workshops. “The students just love it,” she said. “The feedback is extremely positive.”
Read MoreEarlier this year, the Quad Cities Community Foundation announced a challenge grant opportunity to instigate charitable giving for Quad Cities nonprofits.
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 MoreThe Quad Cities Community Foundation has awarded more than $100,000 to nine Quad Cities organizations to strengthen their ability to do their work.
Read MoreThere are countless ways to give back to the community—and the charities Quad Citizens care about—through the Quad Cities Community Foundation. And there’s one unique way to give that also allows donors to turn their generosity into a lifetime of income as well.
Read MoreCommunity. If you ask Maria Ontiveros, it’s as life giving as the water you drink. “It’s almost as important as drinking nine glasses of water every day,” she said. “It’s so crucial to mental health.”
Read MoreIt was during a balloon and laser demonstration while a high school student that Caleb Hoffman first realized he was interested in engineering.
Read MoreIf the importance of mental health services in a community is any indication of how quickly Vera French Community Mental Health Center of Davenport was able to meet a challenge match made by an anonymous Quad Citizen…
Read MoreDorothy Looser-Flake and Roberta Looser, sisters who were born and raised on a family farm near New Boston Township, Illinois, cared deeply about the community that gave them so much growing up.
Read MoreA group of local teenagers have spent the past year identifying promising opportunities and pressing needs in the Quad Cities area as part of the Quad City Community Foundation’s Teens for Tomorrow program.
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 MoreA generous donation should let many families indebted to the Davenport Public Library begin new chapters this summer.
Read MoreThe federal estate tax exemption has been greatly increased under the new law. As a result, donors like you, who have included charitable gifts in their estate plans, may be better situated if those gifts are made as lifetime gifts.
Read MoreIt was during a balloon and laser demonstration while a high school student that Caleb Hoffman first realized he was interested in engineering.
Read MoreHere’s our promise: Come to the table and you’ll be inspired. Better yet, you’ll inspire something—or someone else.
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