ROCK ISLAND, ILLINOIS (May 10, 2023) — United Way Quad Cities is pleased to partner with the National Association of Letter Carriers (NALC) for the Stamp Out Hunger Food Drive, the nation’s largest one-day food drive. In partnership with River Bend Food Bank and local labor partners, this event on Saturday, May 13, aims to rally the community together in gathering non-perishable food donations to benefit Quad Cities families and children.

BETTENDORF, IOWA (May 8, 2023) — The Quad Cities Community Foundation has announced the recipients of $522,400 in scholarship awards. Made possible by the generosity of donors to scholarship funds at the Community Foundation, the scholarships awarded represent a significant investment in local students and their future impact on the Quad Cities and beyond.

GRINNELL, IOWA (April 28, 2023) — As the beautiful spring season begins, gravel riders in and around the Grinnell community have excitedly resumed their weekly gravel rides in preparation of the annual Prairie Burn 100 gravel bike ride and 5K fun-run fundraiser on Saturday, June 10, 2023, in Grinnell, Iowa.

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.