A robotics team was one of 10 Quad Cities Community Foundation grant award winners | Stock Photo
A robotics team was one of 10 Quad Cities Community Foundation grant award winners | Stock Photo
A high school robotics team that works with an approximately 125-pound robot is among 10 nonprofits that received the Nonprofit Capacity Building Grants totaling nearly $110,000 from the Quad Cities Community Foundation.
QC Elite FIRST Robotics Team 648 “Flaming Squirrels” received $10,700 for “critical equipment needs,” the Quad Cities Foundation said in a June 30 release.
Serving the Quad Cities area, the community-based QC Elite Team 648 is a FIRST (For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology) Robotics Competition team that “designs, builds, programs, and competes” with its robot, the team’s website said.
Jean Moran, board chair of Quad Cities Community Foundation
| Quad Cities Community Foundation
“Thank you, Quad Cities Community Foundation for this capacity-building grant,” the QC Elite Team 648 said in a July 6 post on its Facebook page. “We look forward to obtaining new equipment to use in our competition pit and during our outreach efforts throughout the Quad Cities.”
The Quad Cities Community Foundation’s grants help nonprofits by providing funds for such efforts as strategic planning, staff training, board development and technology, the Quad Cities Chamber said in the release.
The Quad Cities Chamber said other organizations receiving grants were Trinity Health Foundation, $9,000, for strategic planning; Second Chance Housing, $8,500, for technology upgrades; Dress for Success Quad Cities, $11,963, technology upgrades; St. Alphonsus Catholic Church, $13,782, technology and security upgrades; Quad City Symphony Orchestra, $6,485, musician training; 180 Zone, $12,549, staff training and security upgrades; Grow Quad Cities, $5,000, technology upgrades; WQPT Quad Cities PBS / Western Illinois University Foundation, $15,000 staff training; and Humility Homes & Services, $14,250, strategic planning.
More information about the fall cycle for the Nonprofit Capacity Building Grant is available at the Quad Cities Community Foundation’s website.
The two-step process organizations go through are completing a Letter of Interest form, and if invited to apply, submitting full applications, the foundation’s website said.
The deadline for letters of interest is Tuesday, Sept. 1, according to the foundation’s website.
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