Spring Forward Learning Center
1 Location
Email: robbie@springforwardqca.org
Quad Cities, IL 61201
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Our Mission
To provide educational programs at no cost to enhance the lives of families in our community.
Since its inception, Spring Forward has supported thousands of students in kindergarten through 6th grade, helping them to increase literacy, academic, and social skills through fun and engaging out-of-school programming.
Our History
In 1999, seeing a need in the community for a safe, controlled environment where kids could go after school, parishioners at Good Shepherd Presbyterian church in Rock Island, Illinois started Spring Forward Learning Center as a mission project. The program, which served about 40 students from Audubon Elementary, quickly expanded to include homework help and tutoring. By 2007, the growing need for after-school programming motivated the church to establish a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization so that it could support even more schools in the district.
In 2009, Spring Forward Learning Center added a second program site at First Presbyterian Church in Milan, springboarding steady expansion that would grow to include seven after-school and nine summer programming sites, as well as a family literacy program and sports clubs.
