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Together, the Quad Cities Community Foundation and 12 other local funders and individual donors have raised $224,000 to help River Bend Food Bank provide more than one million meals to children, adults, and seniors facing hunger this winter.

“As I look toward the end of the year and reflect on my first six months as a Quad Citizen, I can confidently say that “give where you live” is much more than a clever catchphrase to this community. It’s a source of joy, an example to set, a profound expression of generosity.”

The Quad Cities Community Foundation’s new Giving Catalog makes it easy for you to review and support specific projects and initiatives that our community’s nonprofits have identified as critical to their ability to thrive.

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.

The 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.

“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.”

Humility 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.

In 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!

Suzanne 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.

As 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.

In 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

We’re matching gifts to endowment funds at the Quad Cities Community Foundation dollar for dollar! Learn how you can double your impact today!

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.

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.

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.

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.

“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.”