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.

Left to right: Kelly Thompson, Tee LeShoure, Dwayne Hodges, Nicole Cisne Durbin, Chief Jeffrey Bladel, Mayor Mike Matson, Sarah Ott, and Sue Hafkemeyer

BETTENDORF, IOWA (October 26, 2022) — Not every kid who takes a class, does a camp, or joins a production at Davenport Junior Theatre finds themselves pursuing a career in the performing arts — but that’s not the theater’s mission.