Midwest Hope and Healing Awards Community Non-Profits

MOLINE, ILLINOIS (July 26, 2022) — For eighteen years, Midwest Hope and Healing offered encouragement and comfort to 4,000 breast cancer patients with signature healing baskets. Through the generosity of donors, Midwest Hope and Healing established a grantmaking fund at The Moline Foundation to continue their legacy of caring for those newly diagnosed with breast cancer.

“Midwest Hope and Healing is able to support organizations in our community that provide a variety of services and programs to breast cancer patients and their families. We could not do this without the help and support of The Moline Foundation,” acknowledges Colleen Borts, Founder of Midwest Hope and Healing.

This year Midwest Hope and Healing is honored to award $7,600 in financial support to:

Azubuike African American Council for the Arts

Breast Cancer Support Group

$1,600

Genesis Health Service Foundation

Breast Imaging Costs for those with Financial Barriers

$3,000

Living Proof Exhibit

Black Hawk State Park Mural by local Cancer Patients

$1,000

NormaLeah Ovarian Cancer Initiative

2023 Arts Project 

$1,000

UnityPoint Health Trinity Health Foundation

Cooking with Heart Classes for Cancer Patients  

$1,000

Gaye Shannon Burnett, Azubuike Board President, believes, "The Wrapping Ourselves in God's Love support group was created to provide a safe space for survivors and women going through treatment to meet, talk, laugh, and share their stories of living each day with breast cancer. We hope to build and maintain a community that makes our sister's problems, our problems, as we find solutions together. We are grateful for receiving funding that will allow us to offer Healing Talking Circles to women impacted by breast cancer from the Quad Cities African American Community.”

About The Moline Foundation

The Moline Foundation, founded in 1953, is a community foundation that provides funding to health, human services, education, community development, arts, and other charitable organizations benefitting the citizens of Moline and the surrounding area. The Moline Foundation receives and administers charitable gifts for all citizens in a seven-county region including Rock Island, Henry, Mercer, Warren, Henderson, McDonough Counties in Illinois, and Scott County in Iowa.