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Butterworth Center & Deere-Wiman House promotes cultural and educational growth
through the generosity and vision of donors like you.
If you’d like to support the Deere-Wiman House Campaign:
Your gift to the Annual Fund funds day camps, meeting space for nonprofit community groups, beautiful grounds and more!
People –
Programs –
Preservation
With history as our inspiration and lifelong learning as our passion, we operate two historic houses—once home to four generations of the Deere family—where visitors step back more than a hundred years into local history. Whether climbing a grand staircase, admiring a century-old artifact, or hearing how John Deere and his descendants took root in Moline, guests from pre-school to senior adult leave with a message that history is woven into the fabric of every modern community.
And through the generosity and vision of donors like you, we want to encourage new generations to rally around community history while promoting cultural and educational growth. Here’s a sample of what your donations supported last year alone…
And through the generosity and vision of donors like you, we want to encourage new generations to rally around community history while promoting cultural and educational growth. Here’s a sample of what your donations supported last year alone…
People gathering spaces
(valued at $372,00) provided at no charge for community use
- 16,200 visitors, representing 251 nonprofit groups in 1,200 meetings, gathered to serve the community with their charitable, educational, and cultural outreach
- 660 daycare students attended free summer day camps
- 1,263 school children learned about Deere family history through field trips, in-class programs, and curriculum developed by our staff
- 1,400 guests toured historic Butterworth Center and Deere-Wiman House
- Leaky historic German silver sink at Butterworth Center replaced with a reproduction to serve nonprofit groups
- Water feature in the Deere-Wiman House formal gardens replaced with a historically inspired flower bed
To make a pledge, a gift of stock, IRA contribution or other, please contact Britt Vickstrom 309 . 743 . 2720 bvickstrom@butterworthcenter.com
You can also give by check, made payable to William Butterworth Foundation, with “Annual Fund” in the memo line or in accompanying correspondence.
Mail checks to:
Butterworth Center & Deere-Wiman House
1105 8th St
Moline, IL 61265
Butterworth Center & Deere-Wiman House Privacy Statement
Butterworth Center & Deere-Wiman House is committed to respecting the privacy of all individuals, including donors, guests, volunteers, and recipients of written and email communications.
Information Collected
Butterworth Center & Deere-Wiman House collects and maintains the following types of information:
- Contact information: name, organization/company, complete address, phone number, email addressDonation information: amounts donated, date of donation(s), method of the donation.
- Donor’s requests and comments
- Non-personally identifiable information, such as how many hits the Butterworth Center & Deere-Wiman House website receives and the name of the city of each web visitor.
Butterworth Center & Deere-Wiman House uses data to:
- Maintain records of donations
- Send acknowledgments and tax receipts, when appropriate
- Send out newsletters, notices, and other types of communications
Written comments received from donors and others individuals may be occasionally posted, with their prior consent, on Butterworth Center & Deere-Wiman House website or in other types of communications.
Credit card numbers are not retained once processed.
No Sharing of Personal Information
Butterworth Center & Deere-Wiman House does not sell, rent, trade, or transfer donor personal information to outside organizations. Use of donor information is limited to the internal purposes of Butterworth Center & Deere-Wiman House and only to further the mission of the organization.
Nevertheless, security measures may not prevent all losses, and Butterworth Center & Deere-Wiman House is not responsible for any damages or liabilities relating to security failures.
Nevertheless, security measures may not prevent all losses, and Butterworth Center & Deere-Wiman House is not responsible for any damages or liabilities relating to security failures.
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Our Commitment to Donors, Guests, Volunteers, and Recipients of Written and Email Communications:
Butterworth Center & Deere-Wiman House will not sell, share, or trade our donors’ names or personal information with any other entity.
This policy applies to all information received by Butterworth Center & Deere-Wiman House, both online and offline, on any platform, as well as any electronic, written, or oral communications.
Butterworth Center & Deere-Wiman House will not sell, share, or trade our donors’ names or personal information with any other entity.
This policy applies to all information received by Butterworth Center & Deere-Wiman House, both online and offline, on any platform, as well as any electronic, written, or oral communications.
To the extent any donations are processed through a third-party service provider, donor information will only be used for purposes necessary to process the donation.