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.

Eureka!

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Eureka! is a STEM curriculum featuring daily workshops led by female faculty members at local colleges for four weeks over the summer. Students are girls aged 12 to 18.

Friendship Sewing Cooperative

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The Friendship Sewing Cooprative (FSC) offers a means of gaining economic self-sufficiency, supportive social networks, and self-confidence for African refugee women.

Friendship Sewing Cooperative

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The Friendship Sewing Cooprative (FSC) offers a means of gaining economic self-sufficiency, supportive social networks, and self-confidence for African refugee women.