Roberta Looser
Dorothy Looser-Flake
Thanks to funding from the Looser-Flake Charitable Foundation, Mercer County and Sherrard schools are seeing the impact of enhanced mental health services. The foundation made a three-year, $156,000 grant to the Mercer County Mental Health Action Program. Kelly Thompson is with the Quad Cities Community Foundation, which administers the Looser-Flake funding.
The Looser-Flake Charitable Foundation is a private foundation started in 2013 to serve charitable causes in Mercer County. Dorothy Looser-Flake and Roberta Looser were sisters who were born and raised on a family farm near New Boston Township, Illinois. They left a portion of their estates to establish the charitable foundation to support the region.