Building Solutions

By connecting stakeholders to resources available in their area, the Iowa Women's Foundation is helping businesses and communities across Iowa open new child care centers, create family-friendly policies, and find novel solutions to tackle their toughest child care challenges.

Shattering Barriers

The Iowa Women's Foundation is working together with communities across the state to shatter the six barriers to women’s economic sufficiency: employment, child care, housing, education/training, transportation, and mentoring. Together we are stronger!

Stronger Together for 25 years

Since its inception in 1994, the Iowa Women’s Foundation has been committed to improving the lives of Iowa's women and girls. Through a diversified mix of action and funding including research, grantmaking, advocacy, education and collaboration, IWF has worked to shatter the causes and not just the symptoms of economic self-sufficiency.

OUR MISSION

Is to improve the lives of Iowa's women and girls.

The Iowa Women’s Foundation is committed to improving the lives of Iowa’s women and girls. We use research to uncover the biggest barriers to women’s success as well as their greatest needs, and we invest our passion and resources accordingly.

From the Frontlines: Child Care & COVID-19 – Two Sisters, Two Stories

May 6, 2020

Watch the 2020 OVATION Unveiling Ceremonies

June 16, 2020

In Solidarity: IWF and WFMN Statement on the Death of George Floyd

May 29, 2020

IWF EVENTS

Watch the 2020 OVATION Unveiling Ceremonies

June 16, 2020

OUR WORK

We understand what barriers impact the success of Iowa's women and girls.

Six key barriers were identified as the leading obstacles to women’s economic self-sufficiency:
Employment, child care, housing, education/training, transportation, and mentors.