by Heid Huiskamp Collins | Aug 25, 2024 | Education Planning, Financial Planning
I’ve been helping families save for college with 529 Plans for about 20 years. A tax-free way to accumulate money for higher education? Sounds like a “no-brainer” to me. People have a multitude of questions, though, and everyone is afraid of having money left over...
by Heid Huiskamp Collins | Aug 25, 2024 | Education Planning, Financial Planning
According to www.collegetuitioncompare.com, average tuition for the 2023-2024 school year at public 4-year institutions was $11,823.00 for in-state residents and $21,802.00 for students who hail from out-of-state. Private 4-year schools come in at $28,417.00 for...
by Heid Huiskamp Collins | Jun 5, 2020 | Community Involvement, Education Planning, Financial Planning, For Women, Legacy Planning, News, Uncategorized
I can’t NOT speak, but I hesitate to find the right words as anything I say threatens to highlight my white privilege. I feel such deep pain for my black and brown sisters and brothers, our community, and our country, and I feel some very real shame at how relatively...
by Heid Huiskamp Collins | Oct 16, 2018 | Education Planning, News
Myiah is my nine-year-old mentee who lives in the West End of Rock Island with her family which includes 11 brothers and sisters. No one in Myiah’s family has ever graduated from high school, let alone post-secondary school. She is smart as a whip! ...
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 | 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...
