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Prevent Child Abuse Iowa to pilot workplace program

Prevent Child Abuse Iowa has been awarded a $50,000 Community Development Grant for its Connections Matter program from the Polk County Board of Supervisors. The funding will support the development of curriculum specific to the business sector …

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Arts council offers grants

The Iowa Arts Council is offering grants up to $10,000 plus assistance from Iowa’s three regent universities as part of its Arts Build Communities program. The program is for Iowa nonprofits, schools and tribal governments. “Many Iowa …

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AARP, Latino Political Network set voter info sessions

AARP Iowa and the Latino Political Network plan a nonpartisan effort to inform voters about the latest procedures at the polls. The closest session is at 10 a.m. Oct. 17 at the West Des Moines …

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UI Hospitals and Clinics to open psychiatric crisis unit

The psychiatry department at University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics next week will open a 24-hour Crisis Stabilization Unit, designed for people experiencing an emotional crisis or psychiatric emergency. The new unit in Iowa City …

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Goodwill of Central Iowa to expand service territory

Goodwill of Central Iowa announced it has expanded its service to three additional counties — Story, Marshall and Tama. The nonprofit will offer its supported employment services to individuals receiving support from Medicaid, Iowa Vocational …

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Artist to (temporarily) convert World Food Prize facade into art

A Paris-based artist plans to use lights and 3D video mapping technology to turn the east facade of the World Food Prize Hall of Laureates into a work called “Mental Banquet: Painting With Lights” that…
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Federal Home Loan Bank of Des Moines moves into its own building

The Federal Home Loan Bank of Des Moines moved its 300 local employees into a renovated office building Tuesday at 909 Locust St. The move marks nearly a full year of work to upgrade and …

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R&R leaves the first of many 250,000-square-foot footprints in Omaha

R&R Realty Group has opened the first building in what it plans as a 1 million-square-foot warehouse development in the Omaha area, one of two projects that the West Des Moines company has planned for …

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Rockwell Collins finds buyer for flight stabilizer business

Cedar Rapids Gazette: A French aerospace company plans to buy one of the businesses Rockwell Collins has been ordered to divest by the U.S. Department of Justice before United Technologies Corp. can close its acquisition. Paris-based …

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Muscatine grain processor to pay more than $50M in class-action settlement

Muscatine Journal: After years of legal action over pollution problems, a proposed agreement has been reached in a class-action lawsuit against Grain Processing Corp. in Muscatine. If the settlement is approved by the court, GPC will …