Dancers busy rehearsing for Woodlawn Arts Academy’s upcoming production of The Nutcracker Ballet. Pictured (l-r) are Maddey Oyen as the Sugar Plum Fairy, Giuliana Messer as Drosselmeyer, Michaela Brown as Clara, Leo Uresti as The Nutcracker, Sophie Potthoff as the Snow Queen and Ronni Oyen as the Rat King

CORALVILLE, IOWA (October 22, 2026) — The Iowa Women’s Foundation (IWF) awarded $400,000 in grant funding to fifteen organizations working across Iowa to remove barriers to economic prosperity for women and girls.

DES MOINES, IOWA (October 22, 2026) — Better Business Bureau® serving Greater Iowa is strengthening its fight against financial fraud. Cody Huizenga, Operations Specialist at BBB Greater Iowa, has completed Fighting Financial Fraud, a national train-the-trainer program from the BBB Institute for Marketplace Trust℠, BBB's educational foundation, made possible with support from the FINRA Investor Education Foundation.

DUBUQUE, IOWA (October 22, 2026) — The University of Dubuque (UD) announced today an extraordinary investment in the future of business education as UD’s School of Business will be renamed the Robert W Plaster School of Business in honor of a substantial seven-figure gift from the Robert W Plaster Foundation. Additionally, the school will be relocated from multiple locations on campus to a centralized location within the Chlapaty Center for Innovation when the center opens fall 2027.