BETTENDORF, IOWA (January 10, 2025) — The Quad Cities Community Foundation has awarded a $300,000 Transformative Grant — the largest single grant award it funds each year — to Tapestry Farms.

BETTENDORF, IOWA (November 16, 2024) — The Quad Cities Community Foundation has announced the launch of two cohort-based programs that will support the growth and development of local non-profits. Beginning in January 2025, nearly 100 non-profit professionals and volunteers — made up of teams from dozens of non-profits—will participate in the programs, gaining valuable knowledge and creating networks that will support the development of non-profits across the region.

BETTENDORF, IOWA (October 17, 2024) — The public is invited to a tree planting event to kick off the Clean River Advisory Council’s (C-RAC) Mississippi River Equity Vision and a bright, equitable future for river communities.

Trees will be planted at two locations. The primary event and program will be held at 19406 Loud Thunder Road, Illinois City, Illinois, and Rock Island.

BETTENDORF, IOWA (September 17, 2024) — Twenty-nine local nonprofits are receiving $550,386

through the Quad Cities Community Foundation’s Operations and Program Grants.

BETTENDORF, IOWA (August 15, 2024) — Every year, the Grant W Brissman and Virginia M Brissman Foundation awards grants for projects and organizations that improve the quality of life in the Village of Milan, Illinois. The Brissman Foundation is a private foundation administered by the Quad Cities Community Foundation.

BETTENDORF, IOWA (July 31, 2024) — The Quad Cities Community Foundation has granted a total of $57,218 to Western Illinois University to support and develop Rocky’s Play Space, a bilingual early learning and family empowerment lab site opening this year in Moline.

BETTENDORF, IOWA (July 1, 2024) — As non-profit organizations grow, they need additional support to build their capacity and sustainably expand their impact in the community. The Quad Cities Community Foundation designed Nonprofit Capacity Building Grants for exactly this reason.

BETTENDORF, IOWA (June 19, 2024) — Governor JB Pritzker has signed two pieces of legislation that will increase giving and funding opportunities for nonprofit organizations and enhance workforce development in Illinois.

The Quad Cities region’s three community foundations — Moline Regional Community Foundation, Quad Cities Community Foundation, and Rock Island Community Foundation — all celebrate the historic effort.

BETTENDORF, IOWA (May 30, 2024) — The Hubbell-Waterman Foundation is pleased to announce the opening of its 2024 grant cycle. The foundation provides grant funding to nonprofits in Scott County, Iowa, and Rock Island County, Illinois.

BETTENDORF, IOWA (May 13, 2024) Teens are central to transforming the Quad Cities region through generosity.

For more than twenty years, the Quad Cities Community Foundation’s Teens for Tomorrow (T4T) program has put young people in the driver’s seat of philanthropy. This year’s cohort of students from area high schools has now awarded $29,500 to six local non-profits. This total includes $18,500 the students raised through their direct work with donors.

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