Nearly $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 grant-making services to the Brissman Foundation.
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On November 15, Bob and Blenda Ontiveros were recognized by the Quad Cities chapter of the Association of Fundraising Professionals (AFP) as the 2017 Quad Cities Outstanding Philanthropists. The couple, who hold a non-endowed donor advised fund at the Quad Cities Community Foundation…
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The Quad Cities Community Foundation has awarded more than $100,000 to 10 local organizations to help them build their capacity. The Community Foundation’s Nonprofit Capacity Building Grants provide funding to local organizations for
Read MoreWhat started as an idea for a way to help local groups fund larger-scale projects has turned into one of Cedar County Community Foundation's most popular grant programs.
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We're in a season of gratefulness and that's exactly where my head and heart were when I returned from a recent trip to Phoenix, Arizona, for the CEO for Cities National Conference.
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We're in a season of gratefulness and that's exactly where my head and heart were when I returned from a recent trip to Phoenix, Arizona, for the CEO for Cities National Conference.
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“Their stories are important,” Mary Pruess said as she thinks back to the segments that have aired over the past year on Embracing Our Military, a program of WQPT-Quad Cities PBS. “Their stories touch lives, and make a difference.”
Read MoreThe Quad Cities Community Foundation is proud to announce that applications for 2018 scholarships are now available. Thirty-eight different scholarships will be awarded this spring, with some offering more than one award.
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Youth and their families in the Quad Cities will receive more affordable mental health services thanks to the Amy Helpenstell Foundation Fund (TAHFF) at the Quad Cities Community Foundation.
Read MoreIf you’re like me, there’s a certain nostalgia when autumn arrives. Fall ushers in a season of transformation, of change—the weather, leaves, harvest and migration.
Read MoreThe way Anne Calder likes to describe them, the Quad Cities Community Foundation new Field of Interest Funds are kind of like aiming gifts in a direction of impact without trying to hit a target… right away, at least.
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Over the next year, we’re going to roll out 3 Questions, a series that introduces to you—or in many cases, re-introduces to you—our Quad Cities Community Foundation team.
Read MoreChange. Growth. Transformation.
If you’re like me, there’s a certain nostalgia when autumn arrives. Fall ushers in a season of transformation, of change—the weather, leaves, harvest and migration.
Read MoreThis summer, to celebrate and encourage the strength of Quad Cities nonprofits that serve our community while navigating an ever-evolving funding landscape, the Quad Cities Community Foundation announced a challenge grant…
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Mark Schwiebert hopes the first round of grants from the Mark W. Schwiebert Fund for Environmental Studies will not only increase awareness about the environmental challenges posed by climate change, but also provide funding for research projects aimed at facing those challenges head-on.
Read MoreIt’s a perennial question from grantseekers: what are grantmakers looking for in the applications they consider and the projects, programs, or organizations they fund? I asked it myself when I was a grantwriter, and now that I’m on the funding side I know the answer(s).
Read MoreNonprofits in the Quad Cities—and across the United States—are operating in a new world, requiring them to weather ever-evolving funding challenges while also anticipating and changing to meet the needs of communities in the future.
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Extraordinary generosity oftentimes comes from the most ordinary people. Just ask Jack Cross.
Read MoreThe greater Quad Cities community will benefit from the energy and expertise of three new staff members at the Quad Cities Community Foundation this fall.
Read MoreWe are standing on the cusp of a tremendous opportunity. Right now, America is experiencing one of the largest transfers of wealth in history—from one person to a beneficiary, and the depth of good that it could do for the people in the Quad Cities is unimaginable.
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