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Women Aware celebrated its 30th anniversary in 2009! We were formally organized as an Iowa non-profit corporation in 1979. We were formed to serve the needs of displaced homemakers, a growing population in the 70's that was unfamiliar with navigating public and private services tthat would lift their family out of poverty.
Milestones:
1985 - Our first Women of Excellence banquet and awards ceremony.
1988 - Women Aware admitted as an agency member of the United Way of Siouxland.
2005 - The certification scholarship program established with United Way's Women's Power Lunch Committee.
2006 - We moved to our current offices in the Commerce Building.
2006 - We sponsored our first bike ride event, Wheeling for Women Aware.
2008 - Women Aware designated by the Waitt Foundation to administer the Waitt Single Parent Scholarship program.