Elena Vallejo is a student at Alleman High School with a very bright future. This month, President & CEO Sherry Ristau hands her monthly note to the community over to Elena. This is her voice. Hear it.
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This year marks 55 years of transforming the region thanks to the generosity of Quad Cities Community Foundation donors. And we are celebrating the donors who make smiles like this possible.
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Grace Lutheran Church in Davenport hosts an annual garden party to raise funds for the church’s grounds, and to invest in nearby neighborhoods. This year, the party’s hosts broadened the impact of the dollars they raised. They decided to help fellow community members affected by the historic, record-setting flooding of the Mississippi River earlier this year.
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The River Bend Foodbank has a goal that every single person will want day go to bed without being hungry. It’s ambitious. And it’s possible, thanks to the food bank’s partnership with generous donors and the Quad Cities Community Foundation who continue to rally behind the cause.
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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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There are so many things we want the Quad Cities to be known for: welcoming, diverse, inclusive, safe, and affordable, to name just a few. More than anything, we want to be a place that people come and stay, whether that’s a college graduate, a new family, a single mom, or a lifelong Quad Citizen.
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Vanessa Witherell imagines a school library where students are not only engrossed in books but immersed in making, building and coding.
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Fulton Association for Community Enrichment, a Geographic Affiliate Fund of the Quad Cities Community Foundation, is offering a challenge match that makes it a fantastic time to honor someone important to you or to remember someone you dearly miss.
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More than $77,000 in additional grants have been awarded to 12 nonprofits from eight additional funds supported by donors at the Community Foundation. The grants provide general operating support and support for successful ongoing programs.
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Twenty nonprofit organizations serving Rock Island and Scott Counties in the Quad Cities have been awarded more than $315,000 in funding from the Amy Helpenstell Foundation Fund at the Quad Cities Community Foundation. More than $110,000 in additional funds will be awarded through renewable grants in 2020.
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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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A 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.
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Philanthropy is never an accident.
Generosity happens secretly, sympathetically, and strategically. Sometimes it happens in great big ways, and more often in small ways including volunteering time. And, it is never without a story. I would like to share a few of those stories with you.
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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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There have been days when volunteers at the Milan Christian Food Pantry literally bump into each other while they work. “We have used every square inch of space,” said Al Nordstrom, who serves on the pantry board of directors.
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The Quad Cities Community Foundation is currently offering multiple grant opportunities through its online grant system for nonprofits in the Quad Cities region and beyond.
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Isabel Bloom’s life was one of intense creativity and love for her craft, always curious about what she saw through her family and travels and imagining ways to set those moments in stone permanently through her sculptures.
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The Quad City Osteopathic Foundation has solidified its legacy—forever—with a $2.2 million gift to the Quad Cities Community Foundation. It is the start of a new chapter for the Osteopathic Foundation, which was started in 1985 after the close of the Quad City Osteopathic Hospital in Davenport.
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