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The Rotary Club of Des Moines awarded its annual community service grant for $40,000 to Dorothy’s House, a safe place for teen and youth girls whose lives have been interrupted by sex trafficking and exploitation.

An advertisement in the January 2020 Cedar Rapids Tourism guide is already uniting women business owners in Uptown Marion.

An Ames nonprofit recently opened its doors, offering shelter and support to expecting mothers who are homeless, after more than five years of planning and fundraising. It all started, if you ask Carol Nelson, with a conversation between two women in a parking lot.

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Travis Kalanick, the founder and former chief executive of Uber, has stepped down from the company’s board of directors, severing his last tie with the company. The board forced Kalanick to resign as chief executive in 2017 after a series of sexual harassment and privacy incidents.