More than 25,000 residents were displaced from their homes in Linn County, Iowa, as a result of the devastating June floods. Hundreds of businesses were either damaged or destroyed and not able to function. The immediate and massive clean up is complete and rebuilding efforts are underway. Progress is being made but many community needs exist and will emerge in the coming weeks, months and years.
Nonprofits in our community are responding to the relief and recovery effort in extraordinary ways. Many of their organizations were damaged or destroyed but in spite of this, continue to help others.
Help make a difference with your donation. All money will go directly to Linn County, Iowa, nonprofits that are helping individuals, families and businesses recover and rebuild.
For more information on the Flood of 2008, visit the following Web sites:
The Greater Cedar Rapids Community Foundation - www.gcrcf.org and http://www.gcrcf.org/page10002920.cfm to see a list of Flood 2008 Fund grant recepients to date.
Corridor Recovery - www.corridorrecovery.org
Cedar Rapids Chamber of Commerce, "Building the Road to Recovery" video - http://blip.tv/file/1293921/
Inside the PGA Tour, Zach Johnson of Cedar Rapids, Iowa, flood tour video - http://www.pgatour.com/video/?/video/video/pga-tour/features/2008/10/27/feat_johnson_iowa_floods_08inside44.pgatour
About the Flood 2008 Fund
The Flood 2008 Fund of The Greater Cedar Rapids Community Foundation is for flood relief and recovery donations. One-hundred percent of financial donations to the fund will
support Linn County in its recovery from the June 2008 flood. The first priority of the fund is to allocate grants to nonprofit organizations to provide families and 
individuals basic assistance to reestablish stable living after the June 2008 flood.
The fund will support nonprofit organizations in Linn County, Iowa, with ongoing recovery and rebuilding efforts throughout the Cedar Rapids-metro and surrounding communities.
The Greater Cedar Rapids Community Foundation will work with organizations that we have a current relationship with and have proven themselves strong administrators of grant funds. The Flood 2008 Fund will be coordinated with other funders and basic service providers to target needs unmet by other sources.
Donations may also be made to the following flood relief and recovery funds administered by The Greater Cedar Rapids Community Foundation:
Berthel Fisher 2008 Flood Relief Fund enables Berthel Fisher employees, retirees, customers, suppliers, and other friends of the company to make financial donations to flood recovery efforts.
Cedar River Soccer Association Flood Relief Fund enables players, coaches and families to make financial donations to flood recovery efforts.
Job and Small Business Business Recovery Fund was established by the Cedar Rapids Area Chamber of Commerce to provide financial assistance through outright grants and 0% interest forgivable loans to a small for-profit business (person or entity that sells goods or services) and/or the owner of commercial property in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, that has sustained uninsured physical damage as a result of the Flood of 2008. The Cedar Rapids Area Chamber of Commerce will accept applications from and award grants to qualified local businesses with less than 50 full time equivalent employees that intend to reopen and/or rebuild their business in
Rockwell Collins Flood Recovery Fund enables Rockwell Collins employees, retirees, customers, suppliers, and other friends of the company to make financial donations to flood recovery efforts.
Rotary 2008 Flood Relief Fund was established by the seven Cedar Rapids-area Rotary chapters so that Rotarians, both locally and around the world, can help Iowans devastated by the 2008 floods. The Greater Cedar Rapids Community Foundation will administer the Rotary 2008 Flood Relief Fund. The Cedar Rapids Metro Rotary Presidents Committee will advise the Community Foundation on fund distribution, which will go to Linn county nonprofit organizations involved in first response assistance, as well as recovery and relief efforts.
Weitz Company Flood Relief Fund enables Weitz company employees, retirees, customers, suppliers and other friends of the company to make financial donations to flood recovery efforts.
How to Donate
Online
www.gcrcf.org
Mail
Greater Cedar Rapids Community Foundation
200 First St SW
Cedar Rapids, IA 52404
Please note in the memo fund choice
Phone
319.366.2862
To donate gifts of stock or discuss corporate donations, please contact Bud Synhorst at 319.366.2862 or bud.synhorst@gcrcf.org.
About The Greater Cedar Rapids Community Foundation
The Greater Cedar Rapids Community Foundation is a charitable nonprofit organization that works to strengthen and promote philanthropy in the Greater Cedar Rapids area. We also serve as a community leader that brings people and organizations together to create positive change.
Community Foundations connect philanthropists with the needs of the community by providing a service for giving that allows them to give back in variety of ways ? outright gifts, donor advised funds, scholarships, memorials and honors.
In 2007, The Greater Cedar Rapids Community Foundation awarded $4.3 million to 246 Linn County nonprofits - uniting the generosity of our donors with the needs of the community. Since becoming a public foundation in 1992, The Greater Cedar Rapids Community Foundation has distributed more than $32 million in grants.
For more information, visit www.gcrcf.org or call us at 319.366.2862. Our mailing address is 200 First St SW, Cedar Rapids, IA 52404.
