Archive for January 2020
Iowa Department of Cultural Affairs opens 2020 arts and cultural grants
A new round of arts and cultural grants offered by the Iowa Department of Cultural Affairs is open for the 2020-2021 fiscal year, the department announced this week. Application deadlines run March 1 to June …
Read MoreWellmark Foundation announces 2020 grant cycles
The Wellmark Foundation is offering two competitive Matching Assets to Community Health grant opportunities in 2020. The MATCH grants are designed to support larger projects that build upon the assets unique to a community, and …
Read MoreIowa Policy Project report outlines legislative priorities for addressing poverty
A new report identifies steps Iowa lawmakers can consider in the new legislative session to keep Iowa families and children out of poverty. The report from the Iowa Policy Project – a nonpartisan, nonprofit public policy research …
Read MoreStock Watch 2019
The majority of Iowa’s publicly traded companies gained ground in 2019, as the wider U.S. stock market continued surging higher.
Thirteen of Iowa’s 20 public companies ended the year with gains in their stock prices, …
Read MoreEveryStep brings ‘very special story’ under one name
Caring for a 14-year-old girl who doesn’t speak English and is frightened because she’s going to be a mom. Supporting a 95-year-old veteran who is nearing the end of his life in hospice care. Helping …
Read MoreCity officials growing impatient over slow pace to clean up contaminated 40-acre site
Des Moines city officials and others are growing impatient over the snail’s pace it’s taking to transform a contaminated 40-acre site south of downtown into property that can be redeveloped.
Dico Inc., a closed manufacturing …
Read MoreNOTEBOOK: National Skills Coalition seeks to ramp up Iowa business connections
The leader of a national business group focused on closing the skills gap for American workers says it’s frustrating that funding more skills training doesn’t seem to be a top issue for any presidential candidate, …
Read More“I guess they see the potential in me.”
After dropping out of college, getting involved with the wrong crowd and making some bad choices, Sabreen Al-Hameed ended up being incarcerated at the Iowa Correctional Institute for Women.
“I thought it was the worst …
Read MoreExpert: New state law is not a guarantee your company won’t be sued for hiring an ex-offender
Many employers in Iowa are rethinking their policies on hiring individuals with criminal records. But they’re also treading very carefully, says a legal expert.
From a legal perspective, the complexities of hiring an individual with …
Read MorePreparing for reentry
Take away the 20-foot-high chain-link fence and concertina wire, and the Iowa Correctional Institute for Women might be mistaken for a slightly dated corporate campus, or perhaps the commons area of a community college. But …
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