2024 community impact grants

All Care Health Center is creating a Care Coordination Program to manage current patient care gaps and to establish care with over 2,000 prospective patients attributed to All Care via managed care organizations.  Grant funds are directed toward All Care’s Care Message subscription, postage, and printing costs that will encouraging patients to maintain necessary healthcare, and to connect new patients who do not seek healthcare as an effort to curtail healthcare disparities. 

The Home Fire Campaign solicits support for the full cycle of home fire preparedness, response, and recovery, as well as compensation and benefits for staff involved in the campaign. Funds provided to support the project will be used for financial assistance to disaster clients to provide emergency basic needs, such as food, clothing, and shelter; long-term support includes helping clients overcome obstacles to permanent housing, such as security deposit, first month's rent, and home repair. 

Funds from the Community Foundation for Western Iowa will support direct staffing and supply costs for Readers to Leaders and Math Matters, our foundational academic programs. These programs provide the necessary resources to build and expand upon members’ literacy and math skills through engaging and effective programming. 

The mission of the Carson Community Rodeo is to be a leader in the sport of rodeo, while promoting the sport and the Carson community through innovation, people, and a quality event. 

Funding will support the Carson Community Rodeo in undertaking our largest improvement project to date, the replacement of existing wooden bleachers, with new steel bleachers featuring walkways and handrails.  This much-needed improvement will provide safer and more comfortable seating for nearly 5,000 spectators who attend.

Eckels Library is using funds to update the feel of our library by providing fun carpets, fun seating, and kid height bookshelves that they can access their board books from. Our new shelving has given us the ability to create a reading nook as well as the cozy feeling throughout provided by the fun carpet and flexible seating options. 

Golden Hills will use grant funds to launch our WanderLoess project, which will provide programming and promotion of southwest Iowa's natural and cultural resources. Funds will be used to produce materials for the Park-to-Park Poker Run that will be five stops—one stop for our five program areas. 

Grant funds provided by the Community foundation will support the 2024 Annual Independence Day Celebration by helping cover the costs of free food, bottled water, Kona Ice, education, entertainment for up to 800 people, in addition to activities for children attending. 

Funds will support the "Equine Enrichment Activities for Older Adults" project that allows residents from three unique Senior Care Partners to participate in one off-site visit to Horses Help SWI, Inc and one on-site visit where we bring the horses to them.  Each visit the horses will provide mental stimulation, as well as peace and comfort.

Community Foundation grant funds will be used to provide direct civil legal services for Pottawattamie County residents who cannot afford to hire an attorney. These residents are those with a household income at or below 125% of the Federal Poverty Level ($39,000 for a family of four.) 

Community Foundation grant funds will be used to purchase Burlington English (BE) educational software licenses and BEST Plus assessments for ESL participants, and i-Pathways educational software licenses, as well as Test of Adult Basic Education (TABE) assessments for GED participants.  

The Community Foundations Impact Grant will allow the 3 Window Add On Project addition to the Main Street Murals Project. This addition is celebrating the contributions of three individuals who played a vital role in the history of Macedonia. 

O-pa will serve students and teachers in western Iowa schools through its education programs, which provide a continuum of high-quality music and performance experiences. The grant will be used to fund program components including curriculum and materials, teaching artists, concerts, production, school visits, staffing, and more. 

Funds from the Community Foundation Impact Grant will support a Youth talent show on June 21, 2024, that The Hoff Family Arts & Culture Center and PACE will. This outdoor amateur talent competition is free for ages 3 through graduating high school seniors. 

Funding from the Community Foundation for Western Iowa Community Impact Grant enables the NE-Omaha Chapter to purchase necessary supplies and materials (lumber, hardware, new mattress, pillow, sheets and a blanket) to provide fully furnished beds for bedless children in need at this time in their service area. 

With the support of the Community Foundation of Western Iowa, we aim to build and deliver 17 beds to children in need, ensuring they have a comfortable and safe place to sleep. Our focus area includes underserved communities within these counties, where families may struggle to afford basic necessities like beds for their children. 

This is a four-day camp at Iowa School for the Deaf exploring aspects of student leadership that will be turned into action projects. Funds will cover the cost of materials, bussing, housing and food, supplies, and recreational activities for the students. 

Funding is going towards our Together Choice Food Pantry located in Council Bluffs. Our pantry is dedicated to serving the community members that are food insecure with nutritious food, SNAP registration, WIC registration, as well as other opportunities.

Vision Treynor Group (VTG) is improving Treynor for its residents and surrounding communities and to cap off our project, the VTG aims to enhance the Lakin Foundation's Family Pavilion. The Community Foundation of Western Iowa is making this possible by funding the purchase of five commercial round picnic tables.