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Thirty-nine nonprofits in the Quad Cities are recent recipients of Q2030 Grants from the Quad Cities Community Foundation. A total of $75,000 was awarded in 2019. Q2030 Grants support nonprofits in eastern Iowa and western Illinois whose programs contribute to making the region cool, creative, connected and prosperous.
Read MoreTapestry Farms helps families who are forced to flee their country because of violence or persecution the tools they need to become productive Quad Cities residents. A recent Q2030 Grant from the Quad Cities Community Foundations allowed the organization to employ two refugees this summer to grow community gardens in the area.
Read MoreJim Theisen has a hard time talking about generosity without getting choked up. “Everything I have is a gift,” he says. “The more I give, the more I get back.”
Read MoreFor the first time in the Quad Cities Community Foundation history, two Quad Cities organizations have been awarded $100,000 Transformation Grants. In previous years, only one $100,000 Transformation Grant has been awarded by the Community Foundation board of directors.
Read MoreTo Trista Foster, there's nothing cooler than watching your community improve, and knowing you had a hand in it. She is a member of the Quad Cities Community Foundation's Q2030 Grants Committee, a group that recently wrapped up their first year of awarding grants to area nonprofits.
Read MoreNovember is a month of gratitude, and there are so many reasons to be thankful for the generosity in this community.
Read MoreFor students who work feverishly on sculpture and wood bench projects each summer as part of the Quad City Arts Metro Youth Apprenticeship Program, it is always a rush to the very end. "They always say they wish they had a little more time," said Margot Day, Community Engagement Specialist at Quad City Arts. "It's crunch time."
Read MoreWhen kids leave after a session at Juan Diez Rancheros, where they work with horses as a form of emotional therapy, Executive Director Michele Allison wants them to feel one thing—valuable. "They are valuable," she said. "The world may make them feel like they aren't, but I see their value."
Read MoreJohn Howes is certain that when the young man he has mentored through the Big Brothers Big Sisters program walks across the stage to receive his high school diploma one year from now, no one will be more proud than he will be. "That's why we do it," said Howes, who has participated on and off with the program since the mid-1990s.
Read MoreThe Quad Cities Community Foundation has launched a new grant program inspired by the Quad Cities Q2030 Regional Action Plan.
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