Schools, health clinics and social services have some new money to spend.
The United Way of the Quad Cities announced Tuesday that 38 organizations will receive a share of $3 million raised during last year's campaign.
Some of the heftiest grants are going to Community Health Care, the Child Abuse Council, and a few local school districts.
The Rock Island School District got $154,000. Superintendent Mike Oberhaus says the money will help provide enrichment programs at schools with the highest numbers of low-income students.
"It will provide academic interventions, it will provide social and emotional supports, it will provide academic enrichment opportunities for [students] to experience such as going to the Figge and the Putnam museums and other attractions throughout the community that are important to the community and that we want them to have the opportunity to do."
The funds were divided into three categories. A little over one third of the 3 million dollars went to educational organizations. The remaining money was split between health and income stability organizations.
Community Health Care's Tom Bowman says the $167,000 grant from the United Way will help fund new mental health services.
"This allows us to work with other partners in the community and do more integration of behavioral health services on site."
For instance, Bowman says, Community Health Care will be able to hire a full-time therapist, so that patients being treated by a general physician will also be able to see a therapist if necessary.
United Way President Scott Crane says the organization was able to help less than half of the groups that applied for grants this year.
He says that's because this is the first time the United Way accepted applications from anyone interested. Usually it just pulls from a pool of about 45 existing partnerships.
Eighty organizations applied this year.
"We had a number of requests that were solid, good requests that we could not fund. In fact, we would need another $3.5 million dollars to fund everything that was recommended.
Applicants had to specify what they'd use the money for, and they'll have to submit reports on their progress in August of 2018.