BETTENDORF, IOWA (February 20, 2024) — One Quad Citian is using charitable giving in a creative way — to inspire acts of kindness and compassion in area middle schools. The anonymous donor has established endowment funds called “Donna’s Gift” to recognize caring among students at two Quad Cities schools, with the plan to add more schools in the future.

BETTENDORF, IOWA (October 24, 2023) — For more than twenty years, the Quad Cities Community Foundation’s Teens for Tomorrow (T4T) program has been offering young people the opportunity to use their voices to empower change through philanthropy. Teens work with adult mentors to learn about fundraising and grantmaking. Each cohort of about twenty students awards funding to local non-profits.

BETTENDORF, IOWA (June 26, 2023) — The Quad Cities Community Foundation will launch a new Center for Nonprofit Excellence, a resource dedicated to strengthening the region’s non-profit sector.

The initiative will build on the Community Foundation’s long history of supporting non-profits by providing expanded resources that help local organizations advance their missions and grow their collective impact.

BETTENDORF, IOWA (April 27, 2023) — Last year, Rock Island’s Martin Luther King Center set an ambitious goal for its annual Thanksgiving celebration: serve 5,000 meals to community members.

For many years, the MLK Center had served about 200 meals the Sunday before the holiday. After adding Saturday delivery and, during COVID-19, a curbside pickup option, they watched that number tick up and up, from 1,000 meals in 2018 to 2,200 in 2020 and 3,500 in 2021.