We’ve asked some of our nonprofit partners to share their experiences working with the Community Foundation beyond the realm of grantmaking.
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Our region’s nonprofits are instrumental in addressing inequity and providing for social needs in the community. They provide recreational opportunities, support healthcare, engage our young people, and offer many other services we all rely on. You likely have a friend, family member, or neighbor who works for a nonprofit organization. In the Quad Cities, nonprofits touch all our lives. Here’s where the Center for Nonprofit Excellence comes in.
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The Quad Cities Community Foundation is encouraging monetary donations to the First Day Fund to directly support students and schools across Scott and Rock Island Counties as they prepare for the new year
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As they settle into their new positions, Development Assistant Jenny Kitsis and Accounting Assistant Dorrie Murphy discuss their early time at the Quad Cities Community Foundation and their excitement for the future.
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The Quad Cities Community Foundation will launch a new Center for Nonprofit Excellence, a resource dedicated to strengthening the region’s nonprofit sector.
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The Quad Cities Community Foundation’s Teens for Tomorrow 2023 cohort set a new record for program grantmaking, awarding $38,000 to eight local nonprofits.
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Nonprofits can apply for up to $20,000, requested as a one- or two-year grant.
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Being a generous community requires connection, collaboration, and preparation so that we can advocate and respond when a disaster happens. The Quad Cities is just this kind of community.
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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.
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Thanks to the generosity of over 250 donors and businesses who have made gifts to the fund thus far, the Quad Cities Community Foundation has made two grants totaling $80,000 to be immediately administered in partnership with the Quad Cities Open Network. Funds will provide swift and flexible financial support to all households who lived in 324 Main Street.
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To grow their grantmaking budget, members of Teens for Tomorrow have taken matters into their own hands. Read how they raised $30,000 to bring their impact to new heights.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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!
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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.
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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.
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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.”
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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.
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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.
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