QC Interfaith and five partner credit unions have unveiled the 2nd edition of their anti predatory lending brochure, designed to combat pay day lending and other predatory loans usage in the QC area. Please follow link to QC Times article about the brochure and how you can get a copy. Thank you to DCHC Credit Union, Ascentra Credit Union, IH Mississippi Valley Credit Union, the Family Credit Union and RIA Federal Credit Union for joining QCI in offering alternative to pay day loans!

Quad Cities Interfaith is inviting you to the unveiling of its latest effort to combat predatory lending in the Quad Cities: a brochure that warns against payday loans and offers viable alternatives for affordable credit. The new brochure will be unveiled Thursday, November 20, 2008 at 4:30 pm at Café on Vine, 932 West 6th Street, Davenport, Iowa. Light refreshments will be served.

Quad Cities Interfaith is hosting a “Voices for Health Care Justice” forum. Among invited speakers are Josephine Kallipeni, Campaign for Better Health Care, and Jay Schmitt, Gamaliel Foundation. They will speak on health care in the state of Illinois and nationally.

The forum will be held Tuesday, October 21, 2008 from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. at St. Pius X Church, corner of 24th Street & 31st Avenue, Farrell Hall, Rock Island, Illinois.

Quad Cities Interfaith was awarded a grant from the Catholic Campaign for Human Development totaling forty thousand dollars. The funds are to be applied towards staffing, leadership development training, and their work on immigration, health care, strengthening neighborhoods, and general community organizing functions.

Father Marv Mottet, one of the founders of Quad Cities Interfaith, will be honored with the Pacem in Terris Peace & Freedom Award on October 19, 2008 at a ceremony at Christ the King Chapel on the campus of St. Ambrose University, in Davenport, IA. The ceremony will commence at 3:00 PM and is open to the public. Please join us in offering our congratulations to Father Mottet! Read more at: Quad City Times