Don E. and Charlotte Williams
Don and Charlotte were known for their "giving spirit." Even though they are gone, they are both still helping young people through the Community Foundation.
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Marie Kurtz Charitable Gift Annuity
Marie’s spirit of giving led her to believe establishing a charitable gift annuity at the Community Foundation would provide the greatest benefits to herself, her community and the organizations she loved. A gift annuity allowed Marie to receive fixed income payments for life while saving taxes twice, since she avoided capital gains tax and received a generous charitable deduction.
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Steve and Kathi Morency
Steve and Kathi Morency were inspired by a book. Through the Community Foundation, they established scholarships to help foster children attend college.
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Arlene Elliott
Arlene Elliott was a pioneer in the aviation industry, co-founding Elliott Aviation with her husband, Herb, in 1936. When she passed away, her estate included a gift to the community.
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Hunt and Diane Harris
Hunt and Diane Harris recognized the ongoing need for board training and understood that not all nonprofits could afford this activity.
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Mike and Jean Steffenson
chose to establish a fund with the Community Foundation because they felt it was a convenient, efficient, and well-managed way for them to carry out their charitable giving.
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Helen Sudbrook
Helen’s gift to the community has helped address the most pressing needs and enabled the Community Foundation to be creative in its approach to strengthening the Quad City region.
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Michael J. Barrer
"There was never any question in our minds that we needed a way to honor the life of this very special person,” said Roberta Barrer. “I know Mike would be pleased and humbled to know his family and friends are establishing this fund to help keep his spirit and memory alive."
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John P. Bowe
"John P. Bowe was a man who was never in the public eye; a man who never had the chance to achieve greatness, to have a family, to build a legacy. The love of all who knew him will be in his legacy, as well as this scholarship which will bear his name forever."
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HELP Legal Assistance
Since 1970, low-income persons living in Clinton and Scott counties and older persons living in Clinton, Scott and Muscatine counties have been turning to HELP Legal Assistance for high quality legal services.
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Children at Risk Fund
"Twenty dollars for a baseball might not seem like a lot to you, but it means the world to a kid that has nothing. I see a lot of those kids. I work for the Juvenile Court Services Department in Rock Island County," said David VanLandegen.
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