New Child Care Director Certificate Training Expands Opportunities
IWF extends a special thank you to our 2022 Grantee Partner, Hawkeye Community College Foundation, for writing this guest blog and sharing more about the Foundation’s work to raise funding for scholarships, assistance in educational opportunities, staff equipment and development, and other support services, such as child care. Guest Contribution from Hawkeye Community College Foundation: […]
IWF’s Child Care Solution Fund Helps Families Enroll Their Children in KidsPoint (through Waypoint)
When Lucinda had her second child, she had planned to be a stay-at-home mom, but after a few months, she decided it was not a good fit for her and began pursuing employment opportunities. She and her husband didn’t have any family in the area, so after she enrolled her daughter at KidsPoint, she quickly […]
News from Little Knights Learning Center – Dysart Campus
On July 27, 2021, we officially moved into our new facility. Going from 3 rooms inside of an elementary school to 5 rooms, 2 offices, a laundry room and full kitchen has been an exciting time for us, yet trying at times. Our current challenge is to hire enough staff to cover the wait lists […]
How Scholarships Make Child Care More Affordable for Working Families
A special thank you to Mt. Pleasant Childcare Center, one of IWF’s 2022 BCCCS Grant Fund Recipients, for writing this guest blog. To learn more about this organization and get updates from the center, visit facebook.com/mpchildcarecenter/. The Mt. Pleasant Childcare Center opened in July 2021, providing much needed child care to residents of Mt Pleasant […]
Greetings from the Family Resource Center
Greetings from the Family Resource Center. We are located in the county seat of Ringgold. We are the only licensed child care center in our town of Mount Ayr. A group of community members came together in the early 90’s to put together an Early Childhood Center and in 1997 broke ground for our current […]
Check Out the Community Early Childhood Center
In November of 2020, our child care center began an expansion project to increase our licensed capacity from 151 children up to 207. We applied for, and received, a Community Development Block Grant totaling $600,000. We then kicked off a capital fundraising campaign to raise the necessary funds to start construction. In June of 2021, […]
Community Child Care Solutions Collaborative
Iowa Women’s Foundation Receives $25,000 from Aetna to Support Building Community Child Care Solutions Collaborative CORALVILLE, IA, July 27, 2022 – The Iowa Women’s Foundation (IWF), a nonprofit organization focused on improving the lives of Iowa’s women and girls, announced a $25,000 donation from Aetna Health of Iowa Inc., dba Aetna Better Health of […]
IEDA, Iowa Women’s Foundation Hire New Employer Engagement Director to Address Child Care Needs in Iowa
June 14, 2022 (Des Moines, Iowa) – The Iowa Economic Development Authority (IEDA) and the Iowa Women’s Foundation (IWF) today announced a new full-time position dedicated to helping Iowa businesses develop family-friendly child care policies for their employees. Sheri Penney, the former economic development director in Mitchell County, has accepted the new role of IWF’s Employer […]
Lutheran Services of Iowa | Celebrating Providers: Past and Present
We are proud to share this story from Lutheran Service of Iowa (LSI). For eight years we have been providing grants to LSI’s child care registration program. We have enjoyed watching the program grow and expand to help combat the barrier of finding affordable, quality child care in the state of Iowa. This program has […]
Oakridge Neighborhood Is Prepared To Care (P2C) with In-Home Childcare Program Pilots
The five-year-old in Sama A.’s care at her home in Oakridge Neighborhood is from a household that cannot speak English. And yet, not only can he now speak English along with his native Kunama, he can also write his numbers, past 10 and beyond. The reason? His caregiver Sama is actively teaching the child while […]
