Community & Charity Involvement

The mission of Gilda’s Club QC is to ensure that all people impacted by cancer are empowered by knowledge, strengthened by action, and sustained by community. Free of charge, Gilda’s Club Quad Cities provides support, education and hope to all people affected by cancer.

The mission of the U.S. Marine Corps Reserve Toys for Toys Program is to collect new, unwrapped toys during October, November and December each year and distribute those toys as Christmas gifts to less fortunate children in the community in which the campaign is conducted. The primary goal of Toys for Tots is to deliver, […]

Creating mobility and independence for people with disabilities.  The organization raises funds to provide adapted tricycles to children that are unable to ride a traditional bicycle. Our local AMBUCS, Mississippi Bend Trykes was formed in January 2016. We serve individuals in Eastern Iowa and Western Illinois and are currently the only chapter on tin the […]

JDRF is the leading global organization funding T1D research. Millions of people around the world live with Type 1 diabetes (T1D), a life-threatening autoimmune that strikes both children  and adults. There is no way to prevent it, and at present no cure. JDRF works every day to change this by amassing grassroots support, deep scientific […]

Red Nose Day is a campaign dedicated to raising money for children and young people living in poverty by simply having fun and making people laugh. The inaugural Red Nose Day was held in the US on 5/21/2015.  People across the country came together to have fun and raise funds and awareness.

Wear jeans. Help kids. Miracle Jeans Day can be held any day you like but is generally held in September of any given year.  1 in 10 kids in North America is treated at a Children’s Miracle Network Hospital each year.  Every single day, nearly 16,000 children visit the emergency rooms of their 170 member […]