Social Emotional Learning: Expanding Model for Greater Impact – CORE Grant
St. Mark’s is expanding its social emotional learning model to have direct programming for girls throughout the entire year, family engagement and education efforts targeted for single mothers to gain skills to foster healthy parenting practices at home, and adding training and consulting for other organizations in effective implementation of social emotional strategies.
Toolbox: Giving Girls Tools for Life
Toolbox: Giving Tools for Life provides girls ages 8-18 with hands-on instruction and experience in skilled trades.
Iowa Women in Trades: Apprenticeship Opportunity Network
The Iowa Women in Trades Network (IWIT) links unemployed or underemployed Iowa women with opportunities to prepare for and enroll in registered apprentice programs in construction trades. The ultimate goal of this project is to build a pipeline to high-quality construction jobs for Iowa women.
Harvesting Our Potential: Training Women Farmers
Through Harvesting Our Potential: Training Women Farmers, this program connects women who aspire to farm with a successful woman farmer as a mentor for critical on-farm experience, networking events, and business training, so they will be successful farmers.
The Women’s Business Center
The WBC offers a series of workshops for low-income and low-capital women on creating a business along with individual counseling.
Women Caring for the Land: Nurturing New Careers in Ecological Restoration
WFAN has built a successful conservation outreach program called Women Caring for the Land(SM) to support aspiring female entrepreneurs in the growing field of ecological restoration and for the rising number of women inheriting farmland in Iowa
Blueprint for Winning Academy
The Blueprint for Winning Academy is an intensive bipartisan training program for strong female candidates. The focus is on communication, fundraising, message, presence, and media.
Empowering Young African American Women
YWCA of Black Hawk County aims to increase graduation rates and decrease teenage pregnancy among African American high school women by engaging in community service mentoring and educational activities targeted around personal growth, black heritage, decision making, and career exploration.
One-Two-Three-Go
Des Moines Area Community College’s “One-Two-Three-GO” program aims to assure greater success for nontraditional female students pursuing health careers by developing needed math skills in preparation for additional college coursework.
Economic Literacy Course for Victims of Domestic Violence
The purpose of the Economic Literacy Course for Victims of Domestic Violence will acquire training to offer the Personal Economic Planning curriculum to support low-income women with multiple barriers to employment, while also disseminating educational information through an established statewide network.