The stories below? You make them possible through your gifts to the Quad Cities Community Foundation. Take a look at the impact people like you are having on our Quad Cities region.
10, 9, 8… Wait a minute—not so fast! 2022 will be over before we know it, but there’s still time to make a gift to your community through the Quad Cities Community Foundation. Here are five ideas to help you share your generosity before the end of the year.
Read MoreThe holidays are a wonderful time to gather with family and friends to share fond memories, make up for lost time, and eat plenty of good food. They can also be the perfect time to have deeply meaningful conversations about generosity with your loved ones.
Read More“To be a resource that serves our entire community today and tomorrow, we need everybody’s perspective, everybody’s support. We need generosity in all its forms.”
Read MoreHumility Homes & Services’ supportive housing model, piloted with the help of a 2020 Transformation Grant from the Quad Cities Community Foundation, is changing lives for community members who have experienced chronic homelessness. A new $1 million grant from the U.S. Bureau of Justice Administration will make the program’s impact that much more transformational.
Read MoreApplications for scholarships through the Quad Cities Community Foundation are now open. Made possible by the generosity of donors, more than 70 renewable and one-time scholarships totaling over $500,000 are available to local students this year.
Read MoreIn just 9 days since we first announced our endowment-building challenge, donors gave $75,000 to 49 endowment funds at the Quad Cities Community Foundation. We matched those gifts dollar for dollar with funds from the Quad Cities Community Impact Fund for a combined $150,000 impact!
Read MoreSuzanne DeReu and Jeff Blackwell didn’t set out to start a nonprofit. But as they took action to address a gap in local hospice care, they found themselves at the helm of Heartland Pet Peace of Mind QC. Now, they're on their way to official 501(c)(3) status with fiscal sponsorship at the Community Foundation.
Read MoreAs Davenport Junior Theatre enters its 71st season, it’s building an endowment fund to ensure that it can continue to provide access to the arts for generations of local students to come, no matter where their journeys take them.
Read MoreIn the United States, 90 percent of household wealth is held in noncash assets, including real estate, stocks, and—increasingly—cryptocurrency. Now, donors can give all those types of gifts and more to support the causes closest to their hearts
Read MoreWe’re matching gifts to endowment funds at the Quad Cities Community Foundation dollar for dollar! Learn how you can double your impact today!
Read MoreOur 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.
Read MoreWhat 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.
Read MoreWe asked members of our staff and board to reflect on how connection and collaboration drive our work forward. Watch what they had to say.
Read MoreGenerosity 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.
Read More“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.”
Read MoreThirty-four local nonprofits are receiving $577,262 through the Quad Cities Community Foundation’s Operations and Program Grants.
Read MoreMeet 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.
Read MoreAfter 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.
Read MoreThe Looser-Flake Charitable Foundation, administered by the Quad Cities Community Foundation, made $150,000 in grants for parks and recreations projects across Mercer County.
Read MoreThe 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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