Future Ready Iowa | Connecting Iowans

Future Ready Iowa connects Iowans to the education and training required for good paying jobs and careers to improve people's lives. The Future Ready Iowa goal is to have 70 percent of Iowans with education and training beyond high school by 2025.

Future Ready Iowa Programs & Initiatives

Registered Apprenticeship Funding

Grants and programs to build Iowa’s skilled workforce.

Information &
Funding
Child Care
Grants

Grants supporting affordable child care across Iowa.

Child Care Grant
Information
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
Information
Child Care
Task Force

Developing a comprehensive
strategy.

Child Care Task Force
Information
Summer Youth Program Grants

Create internship programs for high school students in your community.

Summer Youth Internship Program Information

Child Care Business Incentive Grant: New Funding Opportunity

A new funding opportunity under the Child Care Business Incentive Grant has opened up that supports child care slots across the state. The application deadline has been extended to November 16, 2022. Click the link below for details!

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We love showing off the work that the Employer Innovation Grant can do! See how the Marion Economic Development Corp and Mercy Cedar Rapids partnered to help high school students get a head start on their healthcare career.
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.
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Women are shaping the manufacturing industry across Iowa. Businesses like Danfoss North America (Ames,IA), Burke Corporation, and American Packaging share how women have become an important part of their workforce. Find more information about manufacturing careers at www.IowaWORKS.gov.
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.

Grant helps high school students get a head start on their healthcare career.
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.
You may have heard the name before, but what is Future Ready Iowa?
Women are shaping the manufacturing industry across Iowa. Three Iowa companies share how women have become an important part of their workforce.
Coronavirus Relief Fund Employer Innovation Grant helps Iowans get CNA certified.