BETTENDORF, IOWA (February 18, 2021) — Sharon Glassman was a quiet, thoughtful person who worked at the International Harvester Plant in East Moline. Folks remember her for a cheerful, kind-hearted sensibility that shone through whenever she spoke. Her husband, Kenneth Glassman, was a welder at Johnson Sheet Metal whose iron-clad work ethic instilled within him a sense of duty and purpose.

CORALVILLE, IOWA (February 15, 2021) — Applications are now being accepted for 2022 grants. To be eligible, proposed projects must focus primarily on serving the needs and aspirations of women and girls in Iowa. To this end, six specific areas have been identified as the most critical barriers for Iowa women and girls, and all grant applications must address one of these barriers.

DAVENPORT, IOWA (February 10, 2021) — What does the re-legalization of industrial hemp mean for Iowa? How is it grown? Can it compete with corn or replace single-use plastics?

BETTENDORF, IOWA (January 29, 2021) — As the nation celebrates Black History Month, United Way Quad Cities and its African American Leadership Society (AALS) are working with community partners to make it easy to learn about local racial disparities and to lift up contributions and successes of Black Quad Citizens.

BETTENDORF, IOWA (January 29, 2021) — The saying that youth are the future rings especially true in the Quad Cities, where the Quad Cities Community Foundation’s Teens for Tomorrow Program is helping create a bigger, better, and more active community. Teens for Tomorrow (T4T) is comprised of 30 students from Quad City-area high schools who are passionate about philanthropy.

MOLINE, ILLINOIS (January 28, 2021) The Moline Foundation announces the appointment of two new members of the Board of Trustees: Scott Lohman and Dr Reginald Lawrence II.

BETTENDORF, IOWA (January 27, 2021 United Way Quad Cities is seeking proposals for grants for the Emergency Food and Shelter Program, which received $149,107 from the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA).

BETTENDORF, IOWA (January 26, 2021) — With local food insecurity at an all-time high, the members of Ascentra Credit Union, through an auto-loan promotion, generated $23,350 to be donated to the River Bend Foodbank. The donation will provide approximately 116,750 meals for local families in the Quad Cities, Clinton, and Muscatine communities in which we serve.

BETTENDORF, IOWA (January 25, 2021) — Whenever Randy Moore is faced with a task, especially if it’s a challenging one, he always asks himself, “How can I do a good thing differently to make it better?”

BETTENDORF, IOWA (January 21, 2021) United Way Quad Cities is accepting applications for its Strategic Impact Grants from non-profits, grassroots organizations, and others serving the residents in Scott and Rock Island counties.

Grants will be awarded to organizations working to improve education, income, and health outcomes in the Quad Cities.

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