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Non-Profits Receive $150,000 in Capacity-Building Grants
Foundation: Quad Cities Community Foundation
Boys and Girls Clubs of the Mississippi Valley in Quad Cities, Iowa, will get a new dance floor and better data management, among other things, thanks to a grant from the Quad Cities Community Foundation.
The foundation has awarded nine local non-profits a total of $150,000 to help them "build and strengthen the systems, structures, cultures, skills, resources, and power that they need to serve their communities," a rep says in a press release.
The maximum grant of $20,000 was awarded to Ballet Quad Cities for a new Marley dance floor in the Alder Theater, the Quad-City Times reports.
Other grants went to: $17,000 Project NOW, CAA, for technology expansion and upgrades to improve program delivery $20,000 Soles for Children, Argrow's House, social enterprise expansion and increased service impact $20,000WGVV, Quad Cities Community Broadcasting Group Inc.
for technology and software advancement to improve WGVV's communications, strategy, and program delivery $13,312 Boys and Girls Clubs of the Mississippi Valley for increasing mission capacity and improving data management with a centralized data system "As non-profit organizations respond to the needs and growth in our region, they require support to become more effective and up-to-date," the Community Foundation rep says.
"The region is going to
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