Next 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.
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Thirty-eight nonprofit organizations serving Rock Island and Scott Counties in the Quad Cities have been awarded more than $500,000 in funding from the Amy Helpenstell Foundation Fund at the Quad Cities Community Foundation. More than $150,000 in additional funds will be awarded through renewable grants in 2019.
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That belief is at the heart of the Healthy Families Home Visitation and Doula Program of the Child Abuse Council. Aimed at preventing neglect and child abuse, the program provides new parents who have at-risk factors with support and services to help build their parental skills.
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A key provision of the new federal tax law increases the standard deduction to $12,000 for single taxpayers and $24,000 for married couples. This means that many who previously itemized deductions will find it advantageous to take the standard deduction instead.
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It is good to be home.
That’s a sentiment Hannah Thomsen feels strongly now that she has returned to her old stomping grounds to live and work. “I feel like I’ve found myself in my home community,” said Thomsen, who serves as the communications director for the Pleasant Valley Community School District in Riverdale, Iowa.
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Earlier 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.
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The Quad Cites Community Foundation is currently offering multiple grant opportunities through its online grant system for nonprofits in the Quad Cities region and beyond.
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Jim Theisen has a hard time talking about generosity without getting choked up. “Everything I have is a gift,” he says. “The more I give, the more I get back.”
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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…
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Five 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.
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Valerie 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.”
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Earlier this year, the Quad Cities Community Foundation announced a challenge grant opportunity to instigate charitable giving for Quad Cities nonprofits.
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I 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!).
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The 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.
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Community. 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.”
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It was during a balloon and laser demonstration while a high school student that Caleb Hoffman first realized he was interested in engineering.
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If 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…
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