Policies and Procedures

The term Quad Cities shall be defined to include the geographic area of Scott County, Iowa and Rock Island County, Illinois.
The Mission Statement, the Vision and Values Statements, and the Annual Statement of Priorities shall be the guiding criteria for evaluating each grant application.
Only complete grant applications submitted prior to the annual submittal deadline of September 1 of each year will be placed on the agenda of that meeting for action. A unanimous vote of all trustees present is required to add a grant application received after the submittal deadline.
Schedule for review and approval of grant applications:
- September 1. Submittal deadline for grant applications
- September 15. Transmit all grant application submittals to the trustees.
- October 7. Prepare final annual meeting agenda and transmit to all trustees
- Fourth week in October is the target for the Annual Meeting.
The trustees, by majority vote, may schedule additional meetings to consider grant applications submitted under unusual circumstances; however, the minimum review time for any application shall be sixty days from submittal date to trustee action.
An organization that is denied funding after review and action by the trustees may not submit another grant application until the next application cycle.
In order to promote opportunity for new grant applications to receive funding, an organization may not apply for a grant beyond three consecutive years. After a hiatus of one application cycle, an organization may reapply.
The trustees shall create a Statement of Priorities at the beginning of each application cycle that sets out the funding priorities and the targeted amount of funds available to each area of need contained in the Mission Statement.