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Project NOW held its 2nd-annual Rooting Out Poverty Conference Thursday at Rhythm City Event Center, Davenport. Among the six-hour event, that attracted over 300 people, Moline Mayor Sangeetha Rayapati discussed the new Level Up and Thurgood Brooks talked up West End Revitalization, two major efforts to help lift local residents out of poverty. Level Up […]

"What if I told you that poverty is unacceptable?," said Dwight Ford, executive director of Project NOW.

Project NOW held its 2nd-annual Rooting Out Poverty Conference Thursday at Rhythm City Event Center, Davenport. Among the six-hour event, that attracted over 300 people, Moline Mayor Sangeetha Rayapati discussed the new Level Up and Thurgood Brooks talked up West End Revitalization, two major efforts to help lift local residents out of poverty. Level Up […]

The new center is located at 4711 44th Street, Suite 2, in Rock Island.

YouthBuild Quad Cities is celebrating its 20th anniversary this year.

The police officers and sheriffs deputies in Rock Island County are getting some powerful new tools to help unhoused people.

Project NOW has reopened two of the four classrooms they plan to open in the Esperanza Center in Moline.

CHARLESTON – A Black man says he was the victim of racial discrimination while working at Walgreen’s.

For the first time since the pandemic, Molines Esperanza Center will re-open its doors this fall to serve up to 80 preschoolers through Project NOWs Head Start program.

For the first time since the pandemic, Molines Esperanza Center will re-open its doors this fall to serve up to 80 preschoolers through Project NOWs Head Start program.