BETTENDORF, IOWA (September 29, 2025) — Thirty-six local non-profits are receiving $629,000 through the Quad Cities Community Foundation’s Operations and Program Grants.

The Operations and Program Grants are made possible by generous donations to Field of Interest Funds as well as the Quad Cities Community Impact Fund. The grants make up the Community Foundation’s largest competitive grantmaking cycle each year.

BETTENDORF, IOWA (September 25, 2025) — For the third year in a row, NAMI Greater Mississippi Valley has a generous partner in supporting its biggest fundraiser of the year. NAMIWalks is the Quad Cities’ largest mental-health advocacy and awareness event, and it’s also NAMI Greater Mississippi Valley’s biggest source of unrestricted funds for its free, nationally-developed education and support groups for those living with mental-health conditions, and their families and friends.

BETTENDORF, IOWA (September 25, 2025) — The Diane and late Hunt Harris family is making a transformative, historic $10 million endowment gift to permanently name the Quad Cities Community Foundation’s Hunt and Diane Harris Center for Nonprofit Excellence.

MONMOUTH, ILLINOIS (September 25, 2025) — About sixty years ago, a song by the legendary Johnny Cash detailed how he'd been "everywhere, man" — "Reno, Chicago, Fargo, Minnesota, Buffalo, Toronto, Winslow, Sarasota," and on and on.