We’re matching gifts to endowment funds at the Quad Cities Community Foundation dollar for dollar! Learn how you can double your impact today!
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Our financial investments connect us in very real ways to what’s happening across the country and the wider world, but we have ways of ensuring that nothing gets in the way of our ability to support our community locally.
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What do we mean when we say "endowment"? Endowment can feel like a mystery—even though it’s a way to make giving more powerful! We’re here to walk you through what endowment is and how it works so you can feel confident in how you invest in your community.
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We asked members of our staff and board to reflect on how connection and collaboration drive our work forward. Watch what they had to say.
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Generosity is a learned skill, and intentionally teaching it to your children is both important and a great family-building activity. Anne Calder offers four simple ideas for how you can get started.
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“No one knows better than nonprofits how to do more with less. But they shouldn’t have to. And we shouldn’t let them. Working in service of missions that lie at the heart of our community’s quality of life, they deserve as much of our generosity as we can possibly give them, especially when times are tough.”
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Thirty-four local nonprofits are receiving $577,262 through the Quad Cities Community Foundation’s Operations and Program Grants.
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Meet Your Generosity Guidebook, a brand-new resource the Community Foundation created to help individuals and families have conversations about philanthropy and start to act on their generous impulses in simple, effective ways.
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After more than a year working full-time in auditing, Maddi Haan recently took the next step down her path, joining the Quad Cities Community Foundation this July as an accounting specialist.
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The Looser-Flake Charitable Foundation, administered by the Quad Cities Community Foundation, made $150,000 in grants for parks and recreations projects across Mercer County.
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The Quad Cities Community Foundation has named Kent Pilcher the new chairperson of its board of directors. Replacing outgoing chairperson Randy Moore, Pilcher brings nearly seven years of service to the Community Foundation and a long history of local community leadership.
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We are proud to launch ResourceLink, an information hub for donors, nonprofit professionals, and involved Quad Citizens who want to take their efforts to benefit our community to the next level.
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Sue Rector recently worked with the Community Foundation to open the Rector Family Fund for CASI, an “acorn” or starter endowment she will fully fund through smaller monthly gifts over the course of five years.
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As the Quad Cities Community Foundation’s newest administrative assistant, Jennie White is excited to have a front-row seat for the stories of generosity that unfold in our community every day.
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Get to know the Boy Scouts of America Illowa Council’s bee program and outdoor classroom project—one of seven projects supported by this year’s Mark W. Schwiebert Fund for Environmental Studies Grants.
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I’m learning what a tremendous privilege it us for us at the Community Foundation to sit down and listen to our community members’ visions for the future. That simple act, repeated over time, affords us a precious window into our community’s collective vision.
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As we announce $150,000 in Nonprofit Capacity Building Grants going to 10 local nonprofits this summer, we’re also extending an exciting opportunity for donors to step in and support proposals that the grant program’s budget did not allow it to fund.
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The new president and CEO of the Quad Cities Community Foundation couldn’t be more excited to start her work in our community. Watch a video message from Sue Hafkemeyer!
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Siri Pothula was at school when she got the good news. “I saw the email, and my first instinct was to just stare at it. I was like, ‘This is not real. I did not do that.’” Read how Siri and other Teens for Tomorrow members raised over $5,000 to expand their grantmaking budget.
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“As I look eagerly ahead to the region-wide collaboration I can support as the leader of this organization, I’m taking the opportunity, at this early juncture, to dwell in the place where I believe collaboration begins: active listening.”
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