As the first corporate charitable fund opened at the Quad Cities Community Foundation, the Van Meter Industrial Foundation Fund celebrates 15 years of generosity this year. Read more about Van Meter’s culture of corporate giving and the impact of its charitable fund on the community.
Read MoreAs we bring the Quad Cities Disaster Recovery Fund for COVID-19 relief to a close, it is our privilege to report the profound impact of the generosity shown by our community.
Read MoreThe moment Kathy Weiman walked into a COVID-19 vaccination site and saw the line of older Quad Citizens waiting to receive a shot thanks to her organization’s efforts, she knew the stress of the last year was worth it.
Read MoreFor many refugees in the Quad Cities, it was hard to feel informed as the pandemic unfolded. With the help of a grant from the Quad Cities Disaster Recovery Fund, World Relief helped bridge that gap.
Read MoreMore than $1.8 million was granted from the Quad Cities Disaster Recovery Fund at the Quad Cities Community Foundation to support the region during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Read MoreThe Quad Cities Community Foundation today announced the recipients of nearly half a million dollars in new scholarship awards.
Read MoreToday, Bailey Nelson is a middle school science teacher in the Davenport Community School district. Here’s how a scholarship through the Community Foundation helped her achieve her goals.
Read MoreWhen Quad Cities–area nonprofit Progressive Action for the Common Good (PACG) decided to honor the legacy of community activist Dick Fallow after his death in 2013, opening a memorial fund at the Quad Cities Community Foundation was a natural choice.
Read MoreIf you think about it, most of the good things in your life have come through your community—the place you call home and the people who make up the region. So really, it makes sense to give back to those places and those people.
Read MoreParticipants in the Quad Cities Community Foundation’s Teens for Tomorrow (T4T) program, a youth philanthropy group of high school students, today announced the recipients of the program’s annual grants.
Read MoreWhen disaster strikes, communities must come together to work together to figure out how to respond immediately, and recover long-term.
Read MoreThe 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.
Read MoreOn 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.
Read MoreWe 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.
Read MoreAs the world faced an unprecedented crisis last year, giving did not slow—it accelerated—with donor advised funds, which you can start at the Community Foundation.
Read MoreThe 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.
Read MoreThe 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.
Read MoreReturns 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.
Read MoreIt seems like only yesterday—and a lifetime ago at the same time—that I was sitting with my colleagues Kelly Thompson and Anne Calder in the Quad Cities Community Foundation office on March 12, 2020, an otherwise uneventful Thursday afternoon were it not for the emerging news about the novel coronavirus.
Read MoreThe additional grant brings the Community Foundation’s total support of the United for Equity Fund to $100,000, with hopes of it having a profound impact on the social and economic wellbeing of people of color in the Quad Cities.
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