Public-private partnerships key to helping QC end poverty

By: Kenda Burrows|April 19, 2024

|7 min read

Thurgood Brooks, a coordinator for the Rock Island West End Revitalization initiative, talks about the plan during Project Now's Rooting Out Poverty Conference. CREDIT KENDA BURROWS

To help the Quad Cities chart a new course to end poverty community leaders are working to Level Up residents, lift up neighborhoods and end permanent punishments, QC leaders said Thursday during the Second Annual Rooting Out Poverty Conference.

Anti-poverty leaders took center stage at the daylong April 18 conference at Rhythm City Casino Resort in Davenport. The event attracted more than 300 community and nonprofit…

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Public-private partnerships key to helping QC end poverty

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