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The Lake County Community Foundation, an affiliate of The Chicago Community Trust, announced $199,900 in grants to local nonprofit organizations serving the urgent needs of the most vulnerable individuals and families in the county. The following ten 2013 grant recipients have demonstrated exceptional commitment to making Lake County a better place to live, work and […]

More than $8,000 was awarded by the Community Foundation of the Quincy Area to eleven students pursuing higher education and one teacher for a recognition award. The awards are funded from permanently endowed funds held with the Community Foundation. The funds provide scholarships at an accredited post-secondary institution for a graduate or student of each

Congratulations to Stacy Reed, Program Director for the Community Foundation for the Land of Lincoln, for being named one of the Forty under 40 by Springfield Business Journal Illinois!

The Sherrard Academic Foundation through the Moline Foundation awarded three $1,000.00 scholarships plus two $750.00 scholarships to graduating seniors from Sherrard High School who plan to continue his/her education through an accredited program. One (1) $1,000 scholarship funded by the Farmers State Bank of Western Illinois will be awarded to a student attending a four

Reprinted from ACT: One month ago, ACT issued a “Work Readiness Standards and Benchmarks” report that presented a first-ever definition of work readiness—an empirically-driven definition based on what is arguably the most extensive and detailed skills database in the world. Today we build on that foundation with “The Condition of Work Readiness in the United