2025 Grant: Vince Jetter Community Center

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The Vince Jetter Community Center has a commitment to educating and empowering individuals, families, and groups. They strive to make the Clinton community a better place by creating a safe- nonviolent, nurturing place for Clinton’s youth and their families to grow.

2025 Grant: House of Hope

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In 1995, House of Hope started with a peer support model, evolving over time into a trauma informed care model.

30th Anniversary Grant

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The Hawkeye Community College Foundation is a nonprofit organization focused on empowering students, strengthening businesses, and enriching communities.

Help Us Grow – Furnishing Classrooms

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The Kids Spot is a nonprofit child care center that opened in Lake City, Iowa in 1992. They provide part-time, full-time and before/after school care. They are the only DHS licensed program in their community.

Girls on the Run New Curriculum Suite

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Girls on the Run uses running and other physical activities as a platform for teaching life skills and promoting holistic health outcomes for girls in grades 3-8.

Parenting and Life Skills Program for Young Moms

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Young Women’s Resource and Action is one of the only organizations in central Iowa to offer small group programs, individual support and mental health counseling to girls and young women ages 10-24.

Removing Barriers to Career Exploration for Iowa Girls

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IJAG mission is to assist students facing multiple barriers to success to graduate from high school and transition to continued education and careers through provision of counseling, mentoring, tutoring, career exploration and post-secondary planning.

Working to Institutionalize Sex Education

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EOI is Iowa’s only agency solely focused on adolescent sexual health. For over 25 years, EOI has worked to create a culture in which all Iowa Teens receive comprehensive, medically accurate, age-appropriate sexual health information.