The Fulton Association for Community Enrichment, a geographic affiliate fund of the Quad Cities Community Foundation, was established nearly fifteen years ago to help Fulton residents leave a legacy while supporting their home community.
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With the help of a $156,000 grant from the Looser-Flake Charitable Foundation, a private foundation administered by the Quad Cities Community Foundation, the Mental Health Action Program will be able to further its school-based mental health case management services in Mercer County and Sherrard School Districts.
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“As I step in as interim president and CEO of the Quad Cities Community Foundation, I’m enjoying the privilege of working in new and closer ways with our talented team.” Randy Moore, board chairperson and interim president and CEO, writes about seeing the transformational work the Community Foundation does from a fresh perspective.
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The Quad Cities Community Foundation has announced the recipients of a total of $566,000 through its Coordinated Field of Interest Grant program. Made possible by donors to the Community Foundation, this year’s program pools resources from 11 different Field of Interest Funds as well as the Quad Cities Community Impact Fund.
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If you’ve applied to a grant program from the Quad Cities Community Foundation this year, you’ve noticed some new questions on the application. Here’s how collecting board demographic data will help us evaluate grant applications—and ourselves as a grantmaker.
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Mercado on Fifth has been hard at work on its new indoor community space, a project funded in part by a Transformation Grant from the Quad Cities Community Foundation. President Maria Ontiveros and Director Anamaria Rocha discuss their vision for Mercado’s next evolution.
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Kate Jennings, Q2030’s new executive director, sits down with the Quad Cities Community Foundation to share what excites her about the work ahead of her.
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The Looser-Flake Charitable Foundation has announced almost $200,000 in grants for educational technology projects in two rural Illinois school districts. Read how Sherrard School District and Mercer County School District will use the funding to enhance their students’ experience.
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President and CEO Sherry Ristau shares her gratitude to the community during her final week as president and CEO of the Quad Cities Community Foundation.
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Grants of up to $10,000 for projects dedicated to improving quality of life for residents of the Village of Milan, Illinois, are now available through the Grant W. Brissman and Virginia M. Brissman Foundation, a private foundation administered through the Quad Cities Community Foundation.
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Anne Calder, vice president of development at the Quad Cities Community Foundation, has been awarded the Chartered Advisor in Philanthropy (CAP) designation from the Richard D. Irwin Graduate School of the American College of Financial Services.
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As Sherry Ristau enters the final weeks of her tenure as president and CEO of the Quad Cities Community Foundation, one thing couldn’t be clearer to her: this is an organization that is ready to take its work to the next level. For the leadership team, this moment of transition is a chance to reflect on the milestones achieved over the last seven years and how those accomplishments have positioned the Community Foundation to set its sights even higher going forward.
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When Greg and Dr. Christine Anderson Petty moved from the Quad Cities to Denver in 2009, they were returning to a city they had come to love during a brief residence there three decades earlier. But their generosity remains tethered to the places where their roots run the deepest—the Quad Cities and the wider northwestern Illinois region.
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When Don Pedersen’s wife, Marsha, passed in June 2020, he realized that they had put off deciding exactly where to channel the generous gift they had earmarked in their estate planning for the Quad Cities Community Foundation. “I asked myself, what do we really want to happen to that money?” said Don. “I felt that before something happened to me, I needed to establish a direction for those funds to go.”
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DevelopmentLink, a bi-monthly roundtable hosted by the Quad Cities Community Foundation, hopes to foster collaborative relationships for fundraising professionals in the region.
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After seven years leading the Quad Cities Community Foundation, President and CEO Sherry Ristau will step down from her position at the end of August to make way for further organizational—and regional—transformation.
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After a year of reflecting on our past and looking ahead to the future, our board and staff are powered by incredible energy and excitement to take our work with donors, nonprofits, and every Quad Citizen to new heights.
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As he wraps up a master’s degree in community and economic development, Sam McCullum finds himself in an internship at the Quad Cities Community Foundation. Here, he shares his thoughts on the experience so far.
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The Quad Cities Community Foundation today announced the recipients of its spring 2021 Nonprofit Capacity Building Grants. With up to $15,000 in funding available for each project, the grants provide powerful support for investments in equipment and technology, training for staff and board members, and strategic planning work, among other areas.
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Bethany for Children & Families has received a $150,000 gift from the Morency Family Charitable Giving Fund at the Quad Cities Community Foundation. Read more about the gift and what it will support.
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