Refugee Child Care Business Development Program – Core Grant
LSI helps refugee women to increase their families’ financial stability by becoming registered in-home child care providers through the Iowa DHS
GLOW (Girls Leading Others Wisely) Program – Core Grant
GLOW is an 8-week mentoring program for girls aged 7-12 of various cultural and socio-economic backgrounds to connect with one another, engaging in discussions and activities that help them build towards future success.
Refugee Child Care Business Development Program – CORE Grant
LSI’s Child Care Business Development program helps refugee women increase their families’ financial stability by becoming registered in-home child care providers through the Iowa Department of Human Services (IDHS).
Northeast Iowa Child Care & Discovery Center
IWF’s grant will pay for Design Development Phase II Architectural Services for a new child care “Discovery Center” increasing child care capacity from 135 children to 200 – 300 children. It will incorporate high-quality STEAM learning and play areas for the childcare attendees and other children on evenings and weekends.
Cedar Valley Kids design project
Cedar Valley Kids (CVK) will provide high-quality childcare to infants through school-age children. Ideally, CVK will build two or more sites, each serving about 100 children, in Waterloo. Funding will be used for initial design expenses which can then be replicated for additional sites and not duplicated saving funds for construction and startup costs.
CECC Expansion
The Community Early Childhood Center (CECC) expansion project will add a 4,908 square foot addition on to the north side of the current one level facility, allowing CECC to increase the number of children to whom we can provide child care services from 151 children to 207.
Growing Beyond Barriers – CORE Grant
The Sioux City Community School District developed a program to provide support to high school parents and assist them in completing their educations. This project is designed to get student parents into the classroom with as little disruption as possible, advocating for those who need an extra voice to reach their potential.
Expansion of Quality & Affordable Early Learning
Crittenton center offers high quality, affordable early learning care for families in all socio-economic levels. The project will expand childcare access to families in the most rapidly growing yet underserved area of Siouxland.
Removing Child Care As A Barrier To Women’s Economic Self-Sufficiency – CORE Grant
This program works to remove the barrier of accessing affordable, quality child care to obtain/maintain work or training and decrease the work force gap while increasing women’s economic security for female-head of households based on poverty guidelines under 200%.
Hawkeye Childcare Disparity Scholarships – CORE Grant
Hawkeye tries to carefully balance the expense of providing quality childcare with the need for affordable access for students who face greater than normal obstacles in pursuing, achieving, and succeeding in educational goals.
