27 Aug 2024

Meet Rocío Ayard Ochoa, the Newest Member of the Quad Cities Community Foundation

By Quad Cities Community Foundation

BETTENDORF, IOWA (August 27, 2024) — Rocío Ayard Ochoa joined the Quad Cities Community Foundation in August as our new major gift officer and director of engagement. She brings a wealth of experience and excitement to the new position. Rocío sat down to talk about what led her to the Community Foundation and her vision for supporting generous donors across the region.

Hi, Rocío! Welcome to the Community Foundation. How was your first week on the job?

25 Apr 2024

Quad Cities Community Foundation: How Generous Donors Transformed Our Region in 2023

By Quad Cities Community Foundation

BETTENDORF, IOWA (April 25, 2024) — In 2023, the Quad Cities Community Foundation granted $9.3 million to the Quad Cities regional community and non-profits. This staggering figure is made possible by the generous donors who support the Community Foundation’s mission.

19 Mar 2024

Women-Focused Organizations Create Positive Change in the Quad Cities

By Quad Cities Community Foundation

BETTENDORF, IOWA (March 19, 2024) — It’s Women’s History Month. And the Quad Cities Community Foundation is proud to partner with many women-focused and women-led non-profit organizations that are working to make the Quad Cities region a better place to live and work.

20 Feb 2024

Generosity Promotes Kindness and Compassion in Local Schools

By Quad Cities Community Foundation

BETTENDORF, IOWA (February 20, 2024) — One Quad Citian is using charitable giving in a creative way — to inspire acts of kindness and compassion in area middle schools. The anonymous donor has established endowment funds called “Donna’s Gift” to recognize caring among students at two Quad Cities schools, with the plan to add more schools in the future.

24 Jan 2024

Celebrating Sixty Years of Donor-Driven Transformation

By Quad Cities Community Foundation

BETTENDORF, IOWA (January 24, 2024) — It started with a simple idea. Two community leaders — Bea Conrad and John Nagle — wanted to organize the collective generosity of the region to improve the lives of their neighbors and the strength of their community.

24 Oct 2023

Quad Cities Community Foundation’s Teens for Tomorrow (T4T) Program: Empowering Teen Philanthropists

By Quad Cities Community Foundation

BETTENDORF, IOWA (October 24, 2023) — For more than twenty years, the Quad Cities Community Foundation’s Teens for Tomorrow (T4T) program has been offering young people the opportunity to use their voices to empower change through philanthropy. Teens work with adult mentors to learn about fundraising and grantmaking. Each cohort of about twenty students awards funding to local non-profits.

31 Aug 2023

Quad Cities Community Foundation Brings Diverse Perspectives Together with Clean River Advisory Council

By Quad Cities Community Foundation

BETTENDORF, IOWA (August 31, 2023) — The Mississippi River is more than 2,300 miles long, meandering from northern Minnesota, through the Midwest and Southeast, before discharging in the Gulf of Mexico. Across that distance, the river runs east to west in only one place, a short span right at the center of the Quad Cities region.

In other words, the Quad Cities is comfortable moving in an unexpected direction.

26 Jun 2023

Quad Cities Community Foundation to Launch New Center for Nonprofit Excellence

By Quad Cities Community Foundation

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.

30 May 2023

Support Households Impacted by the Building Collapse in Davenport

By Quad Cities Community Foundation

BETTENDORF, IOWA (May 30, 2023) — In partnership with Disaster Ready Quad Cities, the Quad Cities Community Foundation is currently accepting donations to the Quad Cities Disaster Recovery Fund to support Quad Cities non-profits supporting households impacted by the collapse of 324 Main Street in downtown Davenport, Iowa, over the weekend.

27 Apr 2023

Quad Cities Community Foundation: “This is What Community is”

By Quad Cities Community Foundation

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.

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