Sumner Daycare and Learning Center, Inc., Sumner Iowa
The Sumner Daycare and Learning Center (SDLC), was approved by the State Fire Marshal to conduct business in renovated classrooms of the Durant Elementary until June 2024.
Sprouts Early Learning Academy, Carlisle Iowa
Sprouts will use funding to support the addition of a new classroom. Furniture items such as cots and sheets, as well as teaching materials and age appropriate manipulatives are needed for the growing enrollment.
Shooting Star Childcare
Elkhart is a growing community north of Ankeny that has a need for childcare and employment, as the nearest jobs or childcare is 20 minutes away.
Noble Initiative Foundation, Griswold Iowa
Our mission is to build a childcare development center that will provide affordable year-round childcare, including full-time, part-time, and before/after-school care.
MICAH House Corporation, Council Bluffs
MICAH House will continue our efforts to address upstream barriers to stability by embarking upon the Building Beyond Shelter capital campaign.
Lutheran Services in Iowa
This proposal builds upon an LSI project funded by the Iowa Women’s Foundation since 2015 in Des Moines to provide training and State of Iowa registration for refugee and immigrant women that wish to become in-home child care providers.
Hawkeye Community College Foundation, Waterloo
Decreasing availability of quality childcare has created barriers for employers and employees across Iowa. According to the Governor’s Childcare Task Force Report, Black Hawk County has 4.1-6 children per available childcare slot.
Discoveries Learning Center
The goal of this project is to rehabilitate the existing building to serve the needs of students aged 6 weeks to preschool.
Council Bluffs Schools Foundation
The Council Bluffs Community School District is constructing an Early Learning Center to expand preschool services to an additional 175 students in full-day preschool programming, as well as an additional 30 children in infant and toddler child care rooms.
Community United Child Care Centers, Cedar Falls
This project will consist of remodeling the existing facility and building a new addition that will increase capacity by 54 slots. For 0-5 ages, adding more infant and toddler slots than other age groups because of greater need. Before and after school care for school-age children will be added to this center that it previously did not have. Project to be completed October 2023.
