News and Stories

The Hubbell-Waterman Foundation, a private foundation administered in partnership with the Quad Cities Community Foundation, announced $1,198,211 in grants to 53 area nonprofits. Applications for the next round of grants are due September 1.

For Rock Valley Physical Therapy, growing from 10 clinics to 62 meant more than expanding to new markets—it also meant becoming a part of new communities. Read how Rock Valley works with the Quad Cities Community Foundation to make its robust corporate giving program a cinch.

For many students, receiving a scholarship is their introduction to the work of the Community Foundation and our mission to transform our region through generosity. Read why president and CEO Sue Hafkemeyer is hopeful that it will be just the start of an enduring relationship.

Congratulations to this year’s scholarship recipients! Made possible by the generosity of donors to scholarship funds at the Quad Cities Community Foundation, the $522,400 in scholarships awarded represents a significant investment in local students and their future impact on the Quad Cities and beyond.

Our Giving Catalog is a way for generous people to join together for a collective impact on our community. Browse a wide range of funding opportunities that nonprofits have told us will take their work to new heights, make a gift of any size, and see each project progress toward its funding goal!

Together, we have the chance to inspire charitable giving in Illinois—if it passes the Illinois legislature. As organizations working in the nonprofit sector, today we ask that you lend your voice in support of the Illiniois GIVES Act.

Creative arts organizations in Mercer County are invited to apply for grants from the Looser-Flake Charitable Foundation, a private foundation administered by the Quad Cities Community Foundation. Up to $100,000 total will be available to organizations that participate in the collaborative grant application process, which will be led by Mercer County Better Together between now and the July 14 deadline.

For Rachel Pitchford, it’s the sense of one-on-one connection with each scholarship applicant that sets the time she gives on the Community Foundation’s Scholarship Committee apart from other volunteer experiences. “I really like getting down to the nitty-gritty, learning each person’s story and their goals.”

The Martin Luther King Center in Rock Island knew that volunteers were a major untapped resource for building relationships in the community and advancing their mission. See how a Nonprofit Capacity Building Grant from the Community Foundation helped them implement a volunteer engagement strategy with incredible results.

When Laura Scott moved back to the Quad Cities area after more than two decades in northern California, she began volunteering at the Quad Cities Community Foundation as a way to get to know her community better. See what she learned.

This National Volunteer Week, we recognize that generosity comes in so many different shapes—and that all those forms of generosity are necessary. So, when we say that everyone has a place at the Community Foundation, we really do mean everyone.

Latino leaders in the Quad Cities and surrounding areas have a new resource for building their skills, knowledge, and abilities to succeed, lead, and maximize their impact on their community. The Quad Cities Latino Leadership Development Program is made possible, in part, by $50,000 in grants from the Quad Cities Community Foundation.