Earlier this year, the Quad Cities Community Foundation announced a challenge grant opportunity to instigate charitable giving for Quad Cities nonprofits.
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I love this place. It is community. It is home. It has everything we need (especially now because our daughter and husband just recently moved to the Quad Cities!).
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The Quad Cities Community Foundation has awarded more than $100,000 to nine Quad Cities organizations to strengthen their ability to do their work.
Read MoreThere are countless ways to give back to the community—and the charities Quad Citizens care about—through the Quad Cities Community Foundation. And there’s one unique way to give that also allows donors to turn their generosity into a lifetime of income as well.
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Community. If you ask Maria Ontiveros, it’s as life giving as the water you drink. “It’s almost as important as drinking nine glasses of water every day,” she said. “It’s so crucial to mental health.”
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It was during a balloon and laser demonstration while a high school student that Caleb Hoffman first realized he was interested in engineering.
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If the importance of mental health services in a community is any indication of how quickly Vera French Community Mental Health Center of Davenport was able to meet a challenge match made by an anonymous Quad Citizen…
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Dorothy Looser-Flake and Roberta Looser, sisters who were born and raised on a family farm near New Boston Township, Illinois, cared deeply about the community that gave them so much growing up.
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A group of local teenagers have spent the past year identifying promising opportunities and pressing needs in the Quad Cities area as part of the Quad City Community Foundation’s Teens for Tomorrow program.
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My dad’s service club lived by a saying that continues to stick with me: “By changing the lives of others, our life is inevitably changed.”
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It’s impossible to miss—the conversation surrounding violence in communities across the United States. From neighborhood disputes to school shootings, the Quad Cities is not immune, to the violence or the conversation.
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A generous donation should let many families indebted to the Davenport Public Library begin new chapters this summer.
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The federal estate tax exemption has been greatly increased under the new law. As a result, donors like you, who have included charitable gifts in their estate plans, may be better situated if those gifts are made as lifetime gifts.
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It was during a balloon and laser demonstration while a high school student that Caleb Hoffman first realized he was interested in engineering.
Read MoreHere’s our promise: Come to the table and you’ll be inspired. Better yet, you’ll inspire something—or someone else.
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To celebrate the resilience of Quad Cities nonprofits as they continue to support the local community despite ongoing funding challenges, the Quad Cities Community Foundation has announced another round of Community Impact Fund Challenge Grants.
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A revitalization of the Quad Cities Community Foundation investment structure is not only yielding excellent returns, but also means that donors will now be able to do more good in the community.
Read MoreThe thought of a woman heading into the final chapter of her life lonely, in poverty and with little hope, moves Regina Haddock to action every single day. “More than 30 percent of women between the ages of 65 and 75 fall into extreme poverty,”…
Read MoreThe best way for our Community Foundation to make good decisions about the resources that have been entrusted to us is to leave it in the care of a board of directors that are professionals with diverse backgrounds and leaders committed, passionate and reflective of people in our region.
Read MoreThree new board members have joined the Quad Cities Community Foundation, adding to a diverse and committed group of leaders to the Quad Cities region’s largest source for community philanthropy.
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