30th Anniversary Grant
The Hawkeye Community College Foundation is a nonprofit organization focused on empowering students, strengthening businesses, and enriching communities.
Help Us Grow – Furnishing Classrooms
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.
Providing Rural Community Access to After School Programs
St Mark provides space for kids with after school and summer programs to fill a gap for working families and students that are struggling with reading, math and social emotional skills.
Girls on the Run New Curriculum Suite
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
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
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
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!
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
The Friendship Sewing Cooprative (FSC) offers a means of gaining economic self-sufficiency, supportive social networks, and self-confidence for African refugee women.
Refugee Child Care Training Program
LSI helps refugee women to increase their families’ financial stability by becoming registered in-home child care providers through the Iowa DHS.
