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Future Ready Iowa Programs

Last-Dollar Scholarship

Learn more about the Last-Dollar Scholarship.

Scholarship
Information
Employer Innovation Fund

Business solutions that can help your organization.

Innovation Fund
Information
Registered Apprenticeship

View information about Registered Apprenticeship programs in the state.

Registered Apprenticeship
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Child care
Challenge

Grants supporting affordable child care across Iowa.

Child Care Challenge
Fund Information
Summer Youth Program Grants

Create internship programs for high school students in your community.

Summer Youth Intern Pilot
Program Information

Child Care Taskforce

Governor Reynolds launched the Child Care Taskforce on March 10, 2021, to develop a comprehensive strategy to address the child care shortage and barriers to work in Iowa.

Child Care Taskforce Information

Coronavirus Relief Fund Grant Awardees

A series of Coronavirus Relief Fund grants were awarded to support Iowa's workforce though job training opportunities for those whose employment was affected by the pandemic. View the awardees for the Employer Innovation Fund Grant, the Registered Apprenticeship Expansion Grant, and the Earn and Learn Grant.

Iowa Governor Kim Reynolds launched the Child Care Task Force to understand the issues facing child care providers in Iowa and help expand access to quality child care. Child care providers and advocates describe some of the barriers they face and explain how state funding is already helping them solve child care barriers in their community.
On March 10, Governor Kim Reynolds signed Executive Order 8, launching a new Child Care Task Force to develop a comprehensive strategy to address the child care shortage and barrier to work in Iowa. The governor also announced awardees of two child care grant programs totaling $13,053,372 and contributing to the creation of more than 4,000 new child care slots across Iowa.
To celebrate January as National Mentorship Month we spoke with a mentor and mentee in our Future Ready Iowa Virtual Mentorship program. Hear how both help each other learn and grow from this unique partnership. If you are interested in becoming a virtual mentor, or signing up as a mentee, follow this link: https://futurereadyiowamentoring.chronus.com/
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Lakeside Village is a Senior Community Center in Panora, Iowa. With the help of the Coronavirus Relief Fund Employer Innovation Grant, the staff was able to receive certification as a Certified Nursing Assistant at a local CNA training center. Now they're able to better care for their senior citizens during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Child care providers and advocates describe some of the barriers they face and explain how state funding is already helping them solve child care barriers in their community.
On March 10, Governor Kim Reynolds signed Executive Order 8, launching a new Child Care Task Force to develop a comprehensive strategy to address the child care shortage and barrier to work in Iowa.
To celebrate January as National Mentorship Month we spoke with a mentor and mentee in our Future Ready Iowa Virtual Mentorship program.
You may have heard the name before, but what is Future Ready Iowa?
Coronavirus Relief Fund Employer Innovation Grant helps Iowans get CNA certified.