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Reading Into SuCcess: Campaign for Grade Level Reading The Greater Cedar Rapids Community Foundation is collaborating with local school, city, business and nonprofit partners on a community initiative to increase the number of children reading proficiently by the end of third grade in the Cedar Rapids metro area.On March 12, 2015 over 100 community members gathered at First Presbyterian Church in downtown Cedar Rapids to discuss resources and challenges to improve grade level reading, and began to map a local initiative. Cedar Rapids joins a network of 167 communities nationwide, including seven other Iowa communities, that are participating in the effort called The Campaign for Grade Level Reading. The local initiative, recently named Reading into Success, is an opportunity for the nonprofits and schools in the metro area to learn from one another, identify more collaboration opportunities, and develop a broad, community-wide system that ultimately leads to reading success for all children.
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Iowa Valley Resource, Conservation and development Project: Building the Capacity of Regional Food Partners to Establish a Food Hub in the Corridor When the Cedar Rapids Blue Zone Food Subcommittee identified a food hub as an important piece to help grow the purchase of local food in the community, the Iowa Valley Resource Conservation and Development successfully applied to the Community Foundation for a grant to determine the economic feasibility for its food cooperative to serve as a regional food hub.  |
His hands free medical clinic Project: Dental Equipment His Hands Free Medical Clinic is a nonprofit ministry providing free medical, chiropractic and dental services in a downtown office along a bus route in Cedar Rapids. When the clinic added a dental program, they recognized a need for tools to offer a more comprehensive treatment plan for patients.
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Cedar Rapids Metro YMCA Project: LIVESTRONG at the YMCA When the Cedar Rapids Metro YMCA was selected by its national organization as a site for a LIVESTRONG at the YMCA program, a grant from the Lil? Drug Store Products, Inc. Donor-Advised Fund at the Community Foundation helped to implement the program which served 176 participants in the first year.
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African American Museum of Iowa Project: Ensuring Access to African American History The African American Museum of Iowa realized educational outreach was critically important to their sustainability and they needed to enhance their education offerings. They had spent several years building extensive partnerships in Cedar Rapids and across the state. Because of those efforts, last year the Museum?s Education Department was at capacity and quickly reaching a point of needing to turn away interested groups.
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Patrick DePalma Transamerica |
Peggy Hardesty Community Volunteer |
Amy Lynch Deloitte |
Julie Nosek AEGON USA Investment Management, LLC |
Staff News We are pleased to welcome two new team members at the Greater Cedar Rapids Community Foundation. Judy Frank joins the Community Foundation as Receptionist; and Kathryn Stack joins the marketing and program teams as Content Associate.
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 Kathryn Stack Content Associate |
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Grant Pre-Application Briefing On January 15 and 16, 2015, over 30 nonprofit representatives attended the Grant Pre-Application Briefing offered by the Community Foundation to review funding opportunities for 2015 and to provide an overview of the application process. The Community Foundation also introduced a grant tutorial video, a resource on our website offering guidance and instruction for the online application process. |
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Grant deadline Friday, June 12, 2015, 4:30 p.m.
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