The Iowa Women’s Foundation will receive funds from the Women’s Funding Network to help expand opportunities for working women by improving the child care sector in the state. Specifically, the funding will target the Iowa Women’s Foundation’s Building Community Child Care Solutions collaborative, which is an effort to increase access to child care across the state. BCCCS launched in 2018, and more than 30 communities have since participated in the program. With funding from the Women’s Funding Network, the Iowa Women’s Foundation hopes to increase BCCCS participation to 10 more communities. “In addition to creating 3,000 child care openings across the state, one of our biggest accomplishments with BCCCS has been helping businesses and the public recognize that child care is a workforce issue,” said Dawn Oliver Wiand, CEO of Iowa Women’s Foundation. “With funding support from WFN, we can spread this message far and wide. And as a member of the Governor’s Child Care Task Force, we can use our success with BCCCS as the framework for building a stronger child care sector in Iowa.”