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Cedar Rapids effort trying to build girls up to be leaders Follow Us
Question of the Day By GRACE KING - Associated Press - Saturday, February 27, 2021
CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa (AP) - Akirah Johnson, 11, spends three days a week finding community and mentorship at a new program - Saving Our Sisters - that encourages positive decision-making for middle and high school girls in Cedar Rapids.
For the past few weeks, Akirah has been working on creating a vision board, which helps her think about her goals and how to achieve them.
Akirah, who is a fifth-grader at Garfield Elementary School in Cedar Rapids, already is eager to learn how to drive a car, said her mother, Tiara Johnson. She loves to dance, draw and color and read. And she asks a lot of questions, her mother said.
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Matthew 25 puts tools, hoes and hope in people s hands
Clint Twedt-Ball is executive director of Matthew 25. Photographed at its offices in southwest Cedar Rapids, Iowa, on Wednesday, Dec. 16, 2020. (Jim Slosiarek/The Gazette)
Clint Twedt-Ball is executive director of Matthew 25. Photographed at its offices in southwest Cedar Rapids, Iowa, on Wednesday, Dec. 16, 2020. (Jim Slosiarek/The Gazette)
The Tool Library at Matthew 25 in Cedar Rapids offers a basement workshop for members with large tools such as this band saw. Membership in the Tool Library runs from $48-180 annually depending on income and family size. Shot on Thursday, April 20, 2017. (Cliff Jette/The Gazette)
The Community Foundation of Washington County is holding their next monthly promotional event tomorrow.
Foundation Fridays are being held at various businesses throughout the county, where promotional materials on the foundation are being distributed to inform the public on the services the foundation provides in establishing endowments or donating towards those existing. Foundation Director Millie Youngquist says the public can also make tax-deductible donations to the foundation at any of the participating businesses, “And our main purpose is to grow endowments. An endowment is a fund that’s permanently invested so that the principal is never spent but every year it’s invested in stocks and bonds and very responsibly. And we work with the Greater Cedar Rapids Community Foundation, they have a company, a firm that does all their investing and so the money is pooled with other moneys so it enables it to grow faster and the fees are less so there’s advantages to that.”