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.
In the Quad Cities, the rising cost of childcare is among the most pressing challenges facing working families. But community nonprofits are stepping up to respond—and leading the way is Project NOW, a grant recipient of the Quad Cities Community Foundation.
Read MoreAs funders, we want to try and mitigate any worry or anxiety you have about any current competitive grants you have from us. It is our responsibility as a community foundation to be flexible and responsive to community needs, and now is one of those times.
Read MoreThe Quad Cities Community Foundation continues its monthly learning series on Thursday, September 12 by bringing Community Foundation donors behind-the-scenes at WQPT.
Read MoreThe Quad Cities Community Foundation continues its monthly learning series in August by introducing donors to the work of The Mississippi Valley Regional Blood Center.
Read MoreThe Quad Cities Community Foundation continues its new monthly learning series in June by introducing donors to the work of Two Rivers YMCA.
Read MoreThe Quad Cities Community Foundation is pleased to announce the launch of a monthly series that will bring together donors, community members and Quad Citizens working at nonprofits that have received grant support—our hold Nonprofit Endowment Funds—at the Community Foundation.
Read MoreThe Quad Cities Community Foundation aspires to be the most trusted resource for community generosity. And one of the ways we can be generous today so that our region thrives well into the future is through the endowment building work we do.
Read MoreWe are celebrating our 55th Anniversary by helping nonprofit organizations in our primary service area build endowment. We know that endowment provides flexible, reliable funding to make nonprofits stronger, so our board has committed $75,000 from our Community Impact Fund to provide a 1:1 match to eligible nonprofit agency funds based on donor gifts to those funds.
Read MoreWhen Jean Moran asks her son 11-year-old Finnegan what mom is good at, he says, “Kickball.”
“Finny,” as she calls him, is wise beyond his years. Because while the mother of two and the new chairperson of the board of directors at the Quad Cities Community Foundation may indeed be good at connecting her foot to a fast-approaching bouncing ball, she is also great at connecting people in the community together for the greater good.
Read MoreEarlier this month in our e-newsletter, we were pleased to share a story of generosity. I hope you were able to look through the diverse, lengthy list of nonprofits that Quad Citizen and Quad Cities Community Foundation Donor Maggie Tinsman has contributed to.
Read MoreOur very own Vice President of Grantmaking and Community Initiatives, Kelly Thompson, sat down with Mediacom Newsleaders host, Brian Boesen, and talked about what we’ve been up to here at the Quad Cities Community Foundation.
Read MoreDuring and after the recession, most charities were forced to operate with less money.
Now, ten years later, Michelle O'Neill reports contributions have been rising, but nonprofits and foundations in the Quad Cities face other challenges.
Read MoreNine nonprofits will improve their technology, equipment, training and strategic planning using more than $100,000 in new grants from the Quad Cities Community Foundation.
Read MoreNine nonprofits will improve their technology, equipment, training and strategic planning using more than $100,000 in new grants from the Quad Cities Community Foundation.
Read MoreIf you wanted to reserve one of the meeting spaces in the Moline Public Library, you would find a clean, welcoming location but—they will admit—very little in the way of technology.
Read MoreThe Quad Cities Community Foundation awarded $100,000.00 to the Robert Young Center to support a new youth suicide prevention program.
Read MoreThe Robert Young Mental Health Center has received a $100,000 grant to create a youth suicide and self-harm support program.
Read MoreGifts to the Community Impact Fund allow the Quad Cities Community Foundation to support nonprofits across the Quad Cities region through grant programs like our Nonprofit Capacity Building Grant.
Read MoreMore than $110,000 in grants have been awarded this year by the Grant W. Brissman and Virginia M. Brissman Foundation. The Quad Cities Community Foundation provides administrative and grantmaking services to the Brissman Foundation.
Read MoreThree long-standing philanthropists and partners at the Quad Cities Community Foundation were honored for their leadership at the 2018 National Philanthropy Day celebration presented by the Quad Cities chapter of the Association of Fundraising Professionals (AFP).
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