Before the mad rush toward 2020 is upon us (or has it started already?!?), now is the time to request an IRA charitable rollover or make a stock gift. We’re here to make it easy for you.
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Applications for 2020 scholarships are currently open and will close on February 15, 2020. Students are encouraged to apply early.
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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.
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Annette Horvath and her fellow coworkers at MidAmerican Energy in Davenport watched from their office windows as the Mississippi River rose to historic levels earlier this spring.
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As we celebrate this week, each of us have taken time to reflect on the acts of generosity we have seen play out over the past year.
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The Quad Cities Community Foundation is joining community foundations around the country in a nationwide celebration November 12-18, 2019, to recognize the increasingly important role community foundations play in fostering local collaboration and innovation to address persistent civic and economic challenges.
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Elena Vallejo is a student at Alleman High School with a very bright future. This month, President & CEO Sherry Ristau hands her monthly note to the community over to Elena. This is her voice. Hear it.
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This year marks 55 years of transforming the region thanks to the generosity of Quad Cities Community Foundation donors. And we are celebrating the donors who make smiles like this possible.
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Grace Lutheran Church in Davenport hosts an annual garden party to raise funds for the church’s grounds, and to invest in nearby neighborhoods. This year, the party’s hosts broadened the impact of the dollars they raised. They decided to help fellow community members affected by the historic, record-setting flooding of the Mississippi River earlier this year.
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The River Bend Foodbank has a goal that every single person will want day go to bed without being hungry. It’s ambitious. And it’s possible, thanks to the food bank’s partnership with generous donors and the Quad Cities Community Foundation who continue to rally behind the cause.
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She loved watching the Iowa Hawkeyes on Saturday, and eating ice cream on Sunday. And she loved doing both with her family. Joanne Updegraff was one of those people who quietly laid a philanthropic legacy, experiencing the joy of giving while she was alive and passing it on to her family upon her passing nearly one year ago.
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There are so many things we want the Quad Cities to be known for: welcoming, diverse, inclusive, safe, and affordable, to name just a few. More than anything, we want to be a place that people come and stay, whether that’s a college graduate, a new family, a single mom, or a lifelong Quad Citizen.
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Vanessa Witherell imagines a school library where students are not only engrossed in books but immersed in making, building and coding.
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Fulton Association for Community Enrichment, a Geographic Affiliate Fund of the Quad Cities Community Foundation, is offering a challenge match that makes it a fantastic time to honor someone important to you or to remember someone you dearly miss.
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More than $77,000 in additional grants have been awarded to 12 nonprofits from eight additional funds supported by donors at the Community Foundation. The grants provide general operating support and support for successful ongoing programs.
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Twenty nonprofit organizations serving Rock Island and Scott Counties in the Quad Cities have been awarded more than $315,000 in funding from the Amy Helpenstell Foundation Fund at the Quad Cities Community Foundation. More than $110,000 in additional funds will be awarded through renewable grants in 2020.
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Teresa Barker knows what it is like to start a small business. It is hard work. It takes perseverance. It is long days, and long evenings too. That’s why she stepped up to support flood-impacted Quad Citizens through the Disaster Recovery Fund.
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The Quad Cities Community Foundation, in partnership with WVIK-Quad Cities NPR, is offering a free estate planning seminar on Thursday, September 19, 2019, at 6 p.m. RSVP today.
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A new teaching corps at Western Illinois University is poised to help solve the state’s widening teacher shortage by sending qualified, trained teachers to rural school districts in western Illinois. The Looser-Flake Foundation is supporting the program with a grant designated for a student in the program from Mercer County.
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Philanthropy is never an accident.
Generosity happens secretly, sympathetically, and strategically. Sometimes it happens in great big ways, and more often in small ways including volunteering time. And, it is never without a story. I would like to share a few of those stories with you.
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