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The advent of the new Women’s Mental Health Endowment at Vera French, started at the Quad Cities Community Foundation, will not only honor Dr. Vera French, but continue to provide resources for her life’s work.

On her first day as Quad Cities Community Foundation’s new administrative assistant, Luann Polissaint was handed a jar of Play-Doh during an informal staff meeting.

We are proud to be a champion of the Quad Cities regional vision, and today, we want to take a moment to shout that to the masses once again.

The Mississippi Valley Blues Society is here to stay. That’s the message volunteers and board members hope the community embraces after the society recently opened an endowment with the Quad Cities Community Foundation.

The Quad Cities Community Foundation will host a 20-minute lunchtime conversation on YouTube and Facebook about the Socially Responsive Investment Pool: what it is, how fundholders can add it to their portfolio, and talk about the 15.6 percent rate of return it achieved in 2020.

Returns for two investment pools surpassed the 10 percent national average in 2020, with the Strategic Growth Pool and Socially Responsive Pool returning 15.5 percent and 15.6 percent, respectively.

The Glassman Fund recently awarded $20,000 to the East Moline and United Township School Districts for their comprehensive, multiphase plan to provide an extensive WiFi network for students.

With the added benefit of investing in society’s positive characteristics, the Socially Responsive Pool is seeing a remarkably high return rate. In fact, the pool outperformed all other funds at the Community Foundation last year, achieving a 15.6 percent return rate in 2020.

The Quad Cities Community Foundation has welcomed two new board members this month: Quad-City Times Publisher Debbie Anselm, and Attorney Mark Schwiebert.

Board Chairperson Randy Moore writes about his earliest memories of generosity, and how those lessons guide him as he begins his tenure as the head of the Community Foundation’s board of directors.

Humility Homes and Services, Inc. will now be able to house and ultimately better serve some of the most vulnerable people in our community, thanks to a Transformation Grant from the Quad Cities Community Foundation.

With Randy Moore’s tenure as board chairperson, the Community Foundation hopes to kick off 2021 with a positive vision for the future that directly addresses systemic issues within the Quad Cities bi-state region—all in an effort to meet the Community Foundation’s mission to transform the region through the generosity of others.

For some students at the East Moline School District, the only place they can do their homework is in their parents’ car in the parking lot of a local fast food restaurant.

Once again, we find ourselves in a position in which we cannot remain silent on the deep issues that divide our country including hate, inequity, white supremacy, and racism—obstructions that prevent our nation from fully living out our democratic principles for all.