Today, Bailey Nelson is a middle school science teacher in the Davenport Community School district. Here’s how a scholarship through the Community Foundation helped her achieve her goals.
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When Quad Cities–area nonprofit Progressive Action for the Common Good (PACG) decided to honor the legacy of community activist Dick Fallow after his death in 2013, opening a memorial fund at the Quad Cities Community Foundation was a natural choice.
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If you think about it, most of the good things in your life have come through your community—the place you call home and the people who make up the region. So really, it makes sense to give back to those places and those people.
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Participants in the Quad Cities Community Foundation’s Teens for Tomorrow (T4T) program, a youth philanthropy group of high school students, today announced the recipients of the program’s annual grants.
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When disaster strikes, communities must come together to work together to figure out how to respond immediately, and recover long-term.
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The advent of the new Women’s Mental Health Endowment at Vera French, started at the Quad Cities Community Foundation, will not only honor Dr. Vera French, but continue to provide resources for her life’s work.
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On her first day as Quad Cities Community Foundation’s new administrative assistant, Luann Polissaint was handed a jar of Play-Doh during an informal staff meeting.
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We are proud to be a champion of the Quad Cities regional vision, and today, we want to take a moment to shout that to the masses once again.
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As the world faced an unprecedented crisis last year, giving did not slow—it accelerated—with donor advised funds, which you can start at the Community Foundation.
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The Mississippi Valley Blues Society is here to stay. That’s the message volunteers and board members hope the community embraces after the society recently opened an endowment with the Quad Cities Community Foundation.
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The Quad Cities Community Foundation will host a 20-minute lunchtime conversation on YouTube and Facebook about the Socially Responsive Investment Pool: what it is, how fundholders can add it to their portfolio, and talk about the 15.6 percent rate of return it achieved in 2020.
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Returns for two investment pools surpassed the 10 percent national average in 2020, with the Strategic Growth Pool and Socially Responsive Pool returning 15.5 percent and 15.6 percent, respectively.
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It seems like only yesterday—and a lifetime ago at the same time—that I was sitting with my colleagues Kelly Thompson and Anne Calder in the Quad Cities Community Foundation office on March 12, 2020, an otherwise uneventful Thursday afternoon were it not for the emerging news about the novel coronavirus.
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The additional grant brings the Community Foundation’s total support of the United for Equity Fund to $100,000, with hopes of it having a profound impact on the social and economic wellbeing of people of color in the Quad Cities.
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The Glassman Fund recently awarded $20,000 to the East Moline and United Township School Districts for their comprehensive, multiphase plan to provide an extensive WiFi network for students.
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With the added benefit of investing in society’s positive characteristics, the Socially Responsive Pool is seeing a remarkably high return rate. In fact, the pool outperformed all other funds at the Community Foundation last year, achieving a 15.6 percent return rate in 2020.
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The Quad Cities Community Foundation has welcomed two new board members this month: Quad-City Times Publisher Debbie Anselm, and Attorney Mark Schwiebert.
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Board Chairperson Randy Moore writes about his earliest memories of generosity, and how those lessons guide him as he begins his tenure as the head of the Community Foundation’s board of directors.
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Teens for Tomorrow will be awarding a total of $10,000 to nonprofits dealing with one of three issues that are especially critical to address today: education equity, racial injustice, and social inequities.
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“I wish you could have seen the expression on his face when I told him he was going to get to bring home his very own desk,” Ann Schwickerath, executive director at Project Renewal, recalled.
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