USA - IOWA: Tapestry Farms Receives $300k Grant From The QC Community Foundation

The Quad Cities Community Foundation is awarding Tapestry Farms a $300,000 Transformation Grant to expand their services over the next three years.

QC Community Foundation Vice President of Grantmaking and Community Initiatives Kelly Thompson says the organization is celebrating ten years of offering Transformation Grants. Unlike other grant opportunities at the foundation, this process is decided by a board committee that looks for areas of community need instead of blanket competitive applications.

"[W]e found was this intersection of welcoming refugees, helping them become long-term residents of the Quad Cities, as well as community health and nutrition," Thompson said in a phone interview with WVIK. "And Tapestry Farms welcomes refugees in part by engaging in urban farming. So they're making our Quad Cities community better, not only through helping people, but in making the land around us more sustainable, contributing to people's health and wellness by growing vegetables, all of those things."