Diane and Hunt Harris of Moline have made a $10,000 grant to the Figge Art Museum from their Harris Family Charitable Gift Fund at to support an upcoming exhibition “For America.”
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The Clyde Mayfield Memorial Scholarship has been established at the Quad Cities Community Foundation to celebrate his life and provide scholarships through a partnership with the Davenport Schools Foundation.
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The Quad Cities Community Foundation recently sat down with Erie D. Johnson, a local trust officer, who works with his clients to manage their wealth and establish estate plans.
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“I’m just so happy to be involved with this—to be able to do this,” Dr. Raj Sekharen said from his home in the Quad Cities, where he has been quarantining during the COVID-19 pandemic. “I don’t get out very much these days, you know.”
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Lynn and Dennis Quinn started an endowment fund and seeded it with “a small amount” at the Quad Cities Community Foundation many, many years ago. Their intent was to begin a relationship with the Community Foundation, and then go from there.
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Thanks to donors who give through the Community Foundation, we are able to listen to our community, and then act on the greatest opportunities and most pressing needs in our region. In all my years working with donors and nonprofit leaders, listening and acting has never been more critical than during this COVID-19 pandemic.
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A $250,000 grant from the Kathi and Steve Morency Family’s fund at the Quad Cities Community Foundation will support the future of Family Resources. The Davenport-based nonprofit provides foster group care, survivor services, mental health services, and more, to the region.
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Chuck and Jeane Keibler hope to make life “just a little better” for people in the Quad Cities—and in other parts of the country. They’re getting a little help from the “littlest” Keiblers—and no, we’re not referring to the Keebler elves (besides, that’s a different spelling altogether).
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For Bob Ontiveros, nearly everything action he takes in life comes back to one goal: creating value. “I’ve been searching for ways to create value for people my whole life,” he said.
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She loved watching the Iowa Hawkeyes on Saturday, and eating ice cream on Sunday. And she loved doing both with her family. Joanne Updegraff was one of those people who quietly laid a philanthropic legacy, experiencing the joy of giving while she was alive and passing it on to her family upon her passing nearly one year ago.
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Teresa Barker knows what it is like to start a small business. It is hard work. It takes perseverance. It is long days, and long evenings too. That’s why she stepped up to support flood-impacted Quad Citizens through the Disaster Recovery Fund.
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The Quad Cities Community Foundation, in partnership with WVIK-Quad Cities NPR, is offering a free estate planning seminar on Thursday, September 19, 2019, at 6 p.m. RSVP today.
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There are still people who need help recovering from the historic flooding of the Mississippi River in the Quad Cities region this spring. “Recovery doesn’t happen overnight, in a week, or even months, after a disaster like the one we had,” Kelly Thompson, vice president of grantmaking and community initiatives at the Quad Cities Community Foundation said.
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The Quad Cities Community Foundation continues its monthly learning series on Thursday, September 12 by bringing Community Foundation donors behind-the-scenes at WQPT.
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The list is long—there are literally hundreds of philanthropic ways you can give this year. And that’s not meant to be overwhelming. It’s meant to be inspiring.
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The Quad Cities Community Foundation continues its monthly learning series in August by introducing donors to the work of The Mississippi Valley Regional Blood Center.
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Thoughtful planning can strengthen your current finances, reduce taxes and help you plan your philanthropic legacy. Attorneys Pete Wessels and David Wierman of Wessels & Wierman and Wealth Manager David Nelson of NelsonCorp Wealth Management will offer a free seminar on planning your estate.
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Footsteps can be hard to follow. But let me tell you, we have leaders rising up in the Quad Cities who are not only filling the shoes of those Quad Citizens who came before them, but confidently forging new paths of their own. This moment, my friends, is a transformative one in the Quad Cities.
A $25,000 grant is being offered for individual disaster assistance to victims of major flooding in Scott and Rock Island counties, according to the Quad Cities Community Foundation.
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