by Heid Huiskamp Collins | Sep 17, 2018 | Community Involvement, Education Planning, News
I am flexible about working nights and weekends both to accommodate busy clients’ schedules and so I can carve out time during the week to do the community outreach that feeds my soul. Every Monday morning, I start my day at Lourdes Catholic School in...
by Heid Huiskamp Collins | Jun 25, 2018 | Community Involvement, News
I’m a Rock Island girl. I’ve worked in big financial institutions in Chicago and San Francisco, but I was raised in Rock Island and attended Alleman High School and Augustana College. When it came time to raise my own children, I left Berkley, California...
by Heid Huiskamp Collins | Apr 24, 2018 | Community Involvement, Education Planning, News
The Quad-Cities Big Table, an initiative of the Quad-Cities Chamber of Commerce, was meant to bring people together to have conversations about how we can make life in our community even better. I hosted a table of eleven at the Martin Luther King Center in Rock...
by Heid Huiskamp Collins | Mar 15, 2018 | Community Involvement, For Women, News
Women’s United is an initiative of the United Way and is made up of women in the Quad-Cities area who are committed to ensuring that all children are Kindergarten-ready, no matter their socioeconomic status. I am extremely proud to count myself among...
by Heid Huiskamp Collins | Feb 16, 2018 | Community Involvement, News
When I was a little girl, I loved school. I own it: I was a geek. I loved learning, I loved being the first one to raise my hand, I loved writing papers…I even loved taking tests. One of my favorite things was going school supply shopping with...
by Heid Huiskamp Collins | Dec 28, 2017 | Community Involvement, News
Myiah, my “Lil’ Sister” through Big Brothers/Big Sisters, brought me so much joy when I celebrated Christmas (which was also her 9th birthday!) with her this week. Circa ’21 is a gem in our Quad-Cities community: a dinner/theater showplace...
