Project IOWA
Des Moines Cluster
Purpose: Develop a long-term sustained program to train unemployed and underemployed central Iowans with skills necessary to advance to better-paying jobs with full benefits.
Current Efforts
- Meeting with central Iowa employers, educational institutions, government agencies, service agencies and community organizations to explore existing job training programs and current and projected occupational needs.
- Seeking a grant to hire a full-time community organizer to work with unemployed and underemployed central Iowans who seek career-track, living-wage, full-benefit jobs, but lack the necessary skills.
Successes:
Central Iowa Works Funding Collaborative has granted $25,000 jointly to AMOS and to Iowans for
Social and Economic Development (ISED). The funds will be used to study how faith-based groups
can become partners in the work force development system.
Click on this link to view a fact sheet on Project IOWA: /sites/default/files/Project%20Quest%20Fact%20Sheet.docx
Contact Persons: Rev. Ben Bell
Living Truth Church
livingtruthchurchdsm@yahoo.com
Reverend Mark Stringer
First Unitarian Church of Des Moines
