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We 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 MoreToday is the 10th anniversary of the passing of Rowan Margaret Sibthorp. We honor her legacy, and are grateful to share this reflection from her parents, Colleen and Bryan. The Quad Cities Community Foundation is proud to have the Rowan Margaret Sibthorp Fund, which was started with memorial gifts made in Rowan’s memory.
Read MoreThe Robert J. and Lois M. Hughes Scholarship was established at the Community Foundation to assist individuals with the backgrounds, values, and love of the professions in which Bob and Lois lived and worked.
Read MoreStudents can now apply for scholarships to community colleges, trade schools, and four-year institutions thanks to the generosity of donors. Hundreds of thousands of dollars in scholarships are awarded each year from the Quad Cities Community Foundation.
Read MoreAs of Monday, January 7, there are $809,000 remaining in 2019 Endow Iowa Tax Credit (we know, we know… they go so quickly each year because Iowans are so generous!).
Read MoreAt the Quad Cities Community Foundation, we are committed to making it simple for you to give. And as the New Year rolls in, we are working to put the finishing touches on a new donor portal that will make it easy for you to access fund statements, review contributions and donations to your fund, make grants to area nonprofits, and much more.
Read MoreDuring and after the recession, most charities were forced to operate with less money.
Now, ten years later, Michelle O'Neill reports contributions have been rising, but nonprofits and foundations in the Quad Cities face other challenges.
Read MoreFulton Association for Community Enrichment (FACE) is ringing in the New Year by celebrating a matching grant made possible by the D.S. Flikkema Foundation. One-hundred percent of the dollars FACE raised by participating in this year’s Birdies for Charity event was matched by the foundation, allowing FACE to continue to make Fulton a more supportive, creative and prosperous community.
Read MoreAlready, $4,067,614 of the 2019 Endow Iowa Tax Credits have been applied for by donors. We do anticipate 2019 credits will be exhausted before the end of the calendar year.
Read MoreNine nonprofits will improve their technology, equipment, training and strategic planning using more than $100,000 in new grants from the Quad Cities Community Foundation.
Read MoreDick Kleine has been named the 2018 Outstanding Philanthropist by the Association of Fundraising Professionals, Illinois Quad-Cities Chapter.
Read MoreQuad-City youth and the families struggling with their mental health issues soon will have a new youth suicide and self-harm support program to turn to for help.
Read MoreNine nonprofits will improve their technology, equipment, training and strategic planning using more than $100,000 in new grants from the Quad Cities Community Foundation.
Read MoreIf you wanted to reserve one of the meeting spaces in the Moline Public Library, you would find a clean, welcoming location but—they will admit—very little in the way of technology.
Read MoreThe Quad Cities Community Foundation awarded $100,000.00 to the Robert Young Center to support a new youth suicide prevention program.
Read MoreThe Robert Young Mental Health Center has received a $100,000 grant to create a youth suicide and self-harm support program.
Read MoreThe Robert Young Center has been granted $100,000 to create a Youth Suicide and Self-Harm Support Program for youth, families, schools, and community groups. The program will raise awareness, offer therapy groups to children and adolescents, and support groups to parents.
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 MoreGifts to the Community Impact Fund allow the Quad Cities Community Foundation to support nonprofits across the Quad Cities region through grant programs like our Nonprofit Capacity Building Grant.
Read MoreMore than $110,000 in grants have been awarded this year by the Grant W. Brissman and Virginia M. Brissman Foundation. The Quad Cities Community Foundation provides administrative and grantmaking services to the Brissman Foundation.
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