CFQA: Raymond, Norbert, and Eleanor Rueter Fund Grant

CFQA: Raymond, Norbert, and Eleanor Rueter Fund Grant

Status: ACTIVE
Funder: Community Foundation of the Quincy Area
Last Updated: October 06, 2025

Summary

The CFQA: Raymond, Norbert, and Eleanor Rueter Fund offers grants to support K-12 students in Illinois struggling with reading and comprehension. This initiative focuses on enhancing educational opportunities for children in Adams, Brown, Hancock, and Pike counties through tutoring and specialized education. By fostering literacy, the fund aims to create a brighter future for students, ensuring they have the necessary skills to succeed academically and beyond.

Overview

The Raymond, Norbert and Eleanor Rueter Fund provides grants to help kindergarten through 12th grade students who have difficulty with reading and comprehension skills. Students must attend an Illinois school, public or private, in the Community Foundation’s geographic service area. Eleanor Rueter found a way to take care of those she loved and those she would never know. Because of her, there are children in our communities with the opportunity for a more promising future.

Eligibility

You can learn more about this opportunity by visiting the funder's website. Public and parochial schools or their foundations in Adams, Brown, Hancock and Pike counties in Illinois. Grants will assist with the cost of tutoring or specialized education primarily to improve reading and/or comprehension skills for students in kindergarten-12th grade.