St. Mark Youth Enrichment Provides Before & After-School and Summer Programs
St. Mark Youth Enrichment provides safe places for kids in the greater Dubuque area with before and after school and summer programs. These programs fill a gap for working families and students in need of support with reading, math, and social emotional skills. With a philosophy of inclusion, safety, and trust staff make connections with […]
LINK Grinnell Develops After-School Program and More
Grinnell, IA Community members and business leaders convened for months to address the childcare desert in Grinnell. A collaboration between the Grinnell Chamber of Commerce, Pow-I80 and JMP Early Childhood Iowa yielded a feasibility study that confirmed the Grinnell area had a severe shortage of child care spaces to serve the community. Since the initial […]
For Essential Workers, Nothing Is More Essential Than Child Care
This guest column from IWF Executive Director, Dawn Oliver Wiand was originally published in the Gazette Thursday, April 2nd. For the last three weeks, our country has grappled with the question, “In a crisis, what can’t we live without?” We’ve had to make tough calls in our attempts to answer this question—millions of Americans are […]
The Marita Theisen Child Care Center is the Latest Development in the Steeple Square Project
The overall Steeple Square project has been focused on restoring an historic church campus while revitalizing what is arguably the city’s most vulnerable neighborhood. The most recent addition to the campus is the Marita Theisen Childcare Center, housed in the former church rectory. Plans for this center were formulated in response to a critical […]
The Montgomery County Child Development Association, Inc. Works Towards Opening the Red Oak Child Development Center
In the fall of 2018, after Red Oak was identified by CCR&R as having insufficient childcare availability, a small group of citizens joined to address providing quality, affordable childcare for our community. The group quickly expanded to form a board governed 501c3 non-profit corporation, the Montgomery County Child Development Association, Inc. (MCCDA). MCCDA is now […]
The Stanton Child Resource Center Maintains a 5-Star Rating on the IQRS
The Stanton Child Resource Center (SCRC) has achieved and maintained a 5-star rating on the Iowa Quality Rating System since 2016. While SCRC provides excellent child care to its current families, the need for additional child care spaces in Southwest Iowa is dire. There are very few licensed centers in our area, making the need […]
Clinton Head Start & Early Head Start – Community Action of Eastern Iowa
There is increasing need for infant and toddler care in Iowa. Currently, Clinton Early Head Start has over 100 families on the waitlist and we know there is a need even beyond this number. According to 2018 data, Clinton County had 3,445 children under five years old. There are 1,677 licensed/registered child care spaces. Because […]
Cambridge and TrafFix Devices Make Major Contributions to New Child Care Center
We are so excited to hear that Cambridge Investment Research and TrafFix Devices have pledged major contributions ($1.25 million from Cambridge and $500k from TrafFix) to Jefferson County Kids Inc’s, future child care center! These companies are creating a model of how the business community can come together and work to increase the availability of […]
First Golden Rattle Awards Presented
The Iowa Women’s Foundation has established the Golden Rattle Award to honor the work of an exceptional individual and a business that is going above and beyond to assist their employees with childcare. Dan Levi and Frontier Co-op are the first recipients of these awards. Dan Levi, owner of Levi Architects in Cedar Falls, Iowa, […]
2020 Core Grantees Announced
The Iowa Women’s Foundation has announced the Core Grantees for 2020. $100,000 has been awarded to eleven organizations across Iowa to shatter the barriers women and girls face to economic self-sufficiency: Employment, Child Care, Housing, Education/Training, Transportation and Mentoring. Recipients are: House of Hope, Domestic Violence Intervention Program, Girls on the Run of Eastern Iowa, […]
