The stories below? You make them possible through your gifts to the Quad Cities Community Foundation. Take a look at the impact people like you are having on our Quad Cities region.
There are still people who need help recovering from the historic flooding of the Mississippi River in the Quad Cities region this spring. “Recovery doesn’t happen overnight, in a week, or even months, after a disaster like the one we had,” Kelly Thompson, vice president of grantmaking and community initiatives at the Quad Cities Community Foundation said.
Read MoreThe Quad Cities Community Foundation continues its monthly learning series on Thursday, September 12 by bringing Community Foundation donors behind-the-scenes at WQPT.
Read MoreThere have been days when volunteers at the Milan Christian Food Pantry literally bump into each other while they work. “We have used every square inch of space,” said Al Nordstrom, who serves on the pantry board of directors.
Read MoreThe Quad Cities Community Foundation is currently offering multiple grant opportunities through its online grant system for nonprofits in the Quad Cities region and beyond.
Read MoreIsabel Bloom’s life was one of intense creativity and love for her craft, always curious about what she saw through her family and travels and imagining ways to set those moments in stone permanently through her sculptures.
Read MoreThe Quad City Osteopathic Foundation has solidified its legacy—forever—with a $2.2 million gift to the Quad Cities Community Foundation. It is the start of a new chapter for the Osteopathic Foundation, which was started in 1985 after the close of the Quad City Osteopathic Hospital in Davenport.
Read MoreTapestry Farms helps families who are forced to flee their country because of violence or persecution the tools they need to become productive Quad Cities residents. A recent Q2030 Grant from the Quad Cities Community Foundations allowed the organization to employ two refugees this summer to grow community gardens in the area.
Read MoreThe list is long—there are literally hundreds of philanthropic ways you can give this year. And that’s not meant to be overwhelming. It’s meant to be inspiring.
Read MoreThe Quad Cities Community Foundation continues its monthly learning series in August by introducing donors to the work of The Mississippi Valley Regional Blood Center.
Read MoreThoughtful planning can strengthen your current finances, reduce taxes and help you plan your philanthropic legacy. Attorneys Pete Wessels and David Wierman of Wessels & Wierman and Wealth Manager David Nelson of NelsonCorp Wealth Management will offer a free seminar on planning your estate.
Read MoreDr. Paul Freund remembers how he felt when his mother could not afford to do both—buy him a $5 pair of glasses and also the medical encyclopedia he so desperately wanted. “She told me I was going to have to have my eyes tested and if I needed glasses, we wouldn’t have enough for the book,” he said.
He needed glasses, so no book.
Read MoreThe following businesses and groups have made gifts.
Read MoreRepresentatives from the Quad Cities Chamber announced on Monday, June 24, 2019 that $397,875 is available to help regional businesses in their flood recovery efforts, and applications for fund disbursement are now available.
Read MoreFootsteps can be hard to follow. But let me tell you, we have leaders rising up in the Quad Cities who are not only filling the shoes of those Quad Citizens who came before them, but confidently forging new paths of their own. This moment, my friends, is a transformative one in the Quad Cities.
Now through October 1, 2019, arts, cultural and historical organizations serving residents of Mercer County can apply for grant support from the Looser-Flake Charitable Foundation. A total of $100,000 will be awarded.
Read MoreWhen Solutions Management Group (SMG) President Keith Lindbloom considered what the company would do with clients’ old computers they swapped out for newer technology, he chose to look at the bigger picture. And he reached out to the Quad Cities Community Foundation for assistance on the best way to reach organizations with the most need.
Read MoreThe Quad Cities Community Foundation has awarded nearly $100,000 to 10 Quad Cities nonprofits to strengthen their ability to do their work.
Read MorePeople have not only donated their time to help those impacted by the months of flooding, with sandbagging and clean up, but with money as well. Starting June 6, 2019, the Quad Cities Community Foundation is passing out some of the money collected.
Read MoreA $25,000 grant is being offered for individual disaster assistance to victims of major flooding in Scott and Rock Island counties, according to the Quad Cities Community Foundation.
Read MoreThe board of directors of the Quad Cities Community Foundation, in partnership with the QC-COAD Long Term Recovery Committee, have made a $25,000 grant that will be used for flood disaster-specific individual assistance in both Rock Island and Scott Counties.
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