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.
VisitMerCo—established in 2020 to highlight the culture of Mercer County and promote local assets through tourism and business opportunities—has received $3,000 from the Looser-Flake Foundation to create storytelling placards in downtown Aledo and launch a regionally focused podcast.
Read MoreIn Aledo, the Looser-Flake Foundation has committed $250,000 over the next five years to the Aledo Park District to support the construction of the Aledo Aquatics Center. Mercer County Family YMCA will manage and staff the new facility.
Read MoreThe Looser-Flake Foundation has distributed more than $110,000 in new grants across Mercer County, IL. With a focus on creative arts, these grants are making an immediate impact on communities in the region.
Read More“Because of Looser-Flake, what we have right now is working better than ever before. Their support ensures we can offer these services to our youth to address their social and emotional needs so they can do all the things they’re capable of doing.”
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 Looser-Flake Charitable Foundation, administered by the Quad Cities Community Foundation, announced grants for dual-credit, Advanced Placement, and vocational education opportunities in Sherrard and Mercer County School Districts.
Read MoreThe Looser-Flake Charitable Foundation has announced almost $200,000 in grants for educational technology projects in two rural Illinois school districts. Read how Sherrard School District and Mercer County School District will use the funding to enhance their students’ experience.
Read MoreAs school districts across the region consider how education will be delivered this fall due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the two largest school districts serving Mercer County students in Illinois will continue their pursuit to ensure every single student has access to technology.
Read MoreVanessa Witherell imagines a school library where students are not only engrossed in books but immersed in making, building and coding.
Read MoreA new teaching corps at Western Illinois University is poised to help solve the state’s widening teacher shortage by sending qualified, trained teachers to rural school districts in western Illinois. The Looser-Flake Foundation is supporting the program with a grant designated for a student in the program from Mercer County.
Read MoreNow through October 1, 2019, arts, cultural and historical organizations serving residents of Mercer County can apply for grant support from the Looser-Flake Charitable Foundation. A total of $100,000 will be awarded.
Read MoreTrustees of the Looser-Flake Charitable Foundation have awarded $150,000 to 11 groups across Mercer County to improve parks and recreation facilities.
Read MoreTrustees of the Looser-Flake Charitable Foundation have awarded $150,000 to 11 groups across Mercer County, Illinois, to improve parks and recreation facilities for the people of Mercer County, and all who enjoy these outdoors spaces.
Read MoreA huge leap into the 21st century is the way Steve Miller describes the impact on Sherrard Community Unit School District #200 when it was awarded a technology grant from the Looser-Flake Charitable Foundation…
Read MoreDorothy Looser-Flake and Roberta Looser, sisters who were born and raised on a family farm near New Boston Township, Illinois, cared deeply about the community that gave them so much growing up.
Read MoreResidents of Mercer County are invited to come together to envision what they want for the future of their county, and to work with one another to make it happen.
Read MoreWhen I think about the steady rhythm of our work here at the Quad Cities Community Foundation, and the many philanthropic victories we witness, I am more and more aware of the linchpin holding it all together—people.
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