CCI members have a story to tell

CCI Receives Four-Star Rating from Charity Navigator Three Years in a Row

Charity Navigator, America’s premier

independent charity evaluator, awarded Iowa CCI its highest rating — four

stars — for three years in a row. Only 10 percent of the charities rated by

Charity Navigator have received at least three consecutive four-star ratings,

indicating that CCI “consistently executes its mission in a fiscally respon-

sible way and outperforms most other charities in America.” Charity Naviga-

tor helps charitable givers make intelligent giving decisions by providing

in-depth, objective ratings and analysis of the financial health of America’s

largest charities. In earning Charity Navigator’s highest four-star rating, Iowa

CCI has demonstrated exceptional financial health, outperforming most of

its peers in its efforts to manage and grow its finances in the most fiscally

responsible way. CCI is very honored by this rating.

Our Mission

THE MISSION OF IOWA CITIZENS FOR COMMUNITY IMPROVEMENT

IS TO EMPOWER AND UNITE GRASSROOTS PEOPLE OF ALL ETHNIC

BACKGROUNDS TO TAKE CONTROL OF THEIR COMMUNITIES;

INVOLVE THEM IN IDENTIFYING PROBLEMS AND NEEDS AND IN

TAKING ACTION TO ADDRESS THEM; AND BE A VEHICLE FOR

SOCIAL, ECONOMIC, AND ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE.

2009 Board

Vern Tigges, President

At-Large Member

Lori Nelson, Vice-President

Carroll Regional Chapter

Frank Jones, Secretary

Southeast Iowa Chapter

Keith Kuper, Treasurer

Hardin Regional Chapter

Robin Ghormley

Des Moines Chapter

Barb Kalbach

At-Large Member

Brenda LaBlanc

Des Moines Chapter

Cynde Rayman/Ferol Wegner

Des Moines Chapter

Kevin Shilling

Adair-Madison Regional Chapter

Katheryn Spencer

Humboldt Regional Chapter

Tommie Stoner

At-Large Member

Phyllis Willis/Judy Lonning

At-Large Member

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

Charity Navigator Award 1

2009 Board 1

President’s Letter 2

Farming & the Environment 3

Housing & Financial Safety 4

Immigrant Issues 5

Voter Owned Iowa Clean Elections 6

Leadership Development 7

Investing in Change 7

Kathy McFarlin Memorial Fund 8

Thank Yous 9

Financials 9

Coalitions & Alliances 10

from the Board President

IN 2009, IOWA CITIZENS FOR COMMUNITY IMPROVEMENT

CONTINUED TO BE AN ORGANIZATION THAT PUTS

PRESSURE WHERE IT NEEDS TO BE PUT IN ORDER TO

WIN POLICIES THAT PUT PEOPLE FIRST.

At Iowa CCI, we believe in the power of everyday people,

united and standing up to corporate power and greed, to

be an unstoppable force for justice. From pushing elected

officials at the Statehouse to calling out Wall Street and the

Federal Reserve, CCI was at the forefront locally and

nationally, holding legislators, corporate special interests

and big banks accountable to the people.

Because of your generosity and support, and because of

the power of our members standing up for what’s right,

we have much to be proud of in 2009. I can think of

several highlights:

We stopped four factory farms from building and

pushed the Department of Natural Resources to levy

stiff fines and penalties on polluters.

We took on payday lenders and launched the small-

dollar loan program, which offered more than

$100,000 in small loans as an alternative to payday

lending, a predatory practice that traps borrowers in

a cycle of debt.

We were one of nine groups across the country to

host a meeting with the Federal Reserve, calling on

them to put people before profits and stand up for

good, affordable credit in our communities.

More than 60 members participated in the

Showdown in Chicago with thousands from across

the country, where we confronted big banks and

called on them to stand on the side of the people.

We won state legislation to protect Iowa’s waters,

preventing factory farms from spreading manure on

frozen and snow-covered ground.

We pushed the campaign contribution limits bill out

of committee for the first time ever.

We got the state legislature to pass a wage protection

and anti-child-labor bill, which provides additional

protection for workers, regardless of immigration status.

We were applauded by the House Ethics Committee

for our ethics complaint against violators for failing

to file lobbyist reports. As a result, we won legislation to

require proper filing, disclosure and transparency of

lobbying groups’ wining and dining events.

We were named most valuable grassroots advocacy

group by The Nation magazine.

I am honored to be a part of an organization that is

recognized nationally for making a difference, and we

couldn’t have done it without your support. You should be

proud — you help put us on the map locally and nationally

as a force to be reckoned with for social, environmental and

economic justice.

It is a privilege to work alongside such committed members

and staff. You give us the power to continue to mobilize and

engage lots of everyday people, stand up for what’s right,

work together for a more just and democratic state and

nation, and put people first.

Thank you.

Vern Tigges, Board President

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standing up for what is right

WITH THE HARD WORK AND SUPPORT OF THOUSANDS OF MEMBERS

FROM ALL WALKS OF LIFE, IOWA CITIZENS FOR COMMUNITY

IMPROVEMENT (CCI) HAS PERSISTENTLY STOOD UP FOR WHAT’S RIGHT ON

ISSUES THAT IMPACT EVERYDAY PEOPLE.

farming & the environment In 2009, CCI members organized

local campaigns to stop factory farms

from building in Van Buren, Wright,

Madison, Dallas and Poweshiek

Counties. We held rallies, petition

drives and meetings with decision

makers all around the state. The

result: Prestage Farms dropped their

construction plans in Poweshiek County, and the

Environmental Protection Commission overturned the

permit for a 4,800-head site in Van Buren County.

During the legislative session, CCI members worked hard

to ban manure spreading on frozen ground, a practice

that has resulted in high pollution levels in our state’s

waterways. Members’ persistent efforts led to the passage

of important clean water legislation banning the practice of

spreading liquid manure from factory farms on frozen and

snow-covered ground during winter months. Despite

massive opposition from the factory farm industry, we

won this common-sense legislation that will protect our

waterways from manure runoff.

Members also pushed for strong enforcement action

against a northern Iowa factory farm corporation owned

by brothers Luke and Charles Kollasch. The Kollasches

own multiple factory farm sites in Kossuth and Palo Alto

Counties, which is part of our Humboldt Regional Chapter.

CCI members have battled them on several occasions in

recent years to stop them from building more factory farms.

When we learned in August that the Iowa Department

of Natural Resources had referred the Kollasch brothers

to the Attorney General for numerous environmental and

other violations, members mobilized and demanded the

toughest possible fines and penalties. The AG later sued

the Kollasches; the case is still pending.

On the national level, CCI and other member groups of

the Campaign for Family Farms and the Environment

(CFFE) delivered more than 25,000 petition signatures to

U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack, calling on him to

suspend loans to factory farms. Despite overproduction in

the industry, the United States Department of Agriculture

(USDA) continues to provide government-backed direct

and guaranteed loans for new factory farm construction

and expansion.

The factory farm industry has also been actively seeking

taxpayer money from USDA to prop up factory farms. They

have received millions of dollars in “bailout” money and

have continually asked for more. CCI members persistently

contacted decision makers, asking them to back off on

giving the factory farm industry any taxpayer public money.

We generated strong media coverage and received

statewide and national attention.

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Iowa CCI is committed to helping families achieve their

financial and homeownership goals and avoid the dangers

of predatory business practices.

Out of our organizing around financial education issues,

CCI partnered with Bankers Trust in the spring of 2009 to

offer the “Small-Dollar Loan” program as an alternative to

payday lending, which traps borrowers in a cycle of debt.

The small-dollar loan provides borrowers facing an

immediate financial difficulty an opportunity to pay off

a debt, build and repair their credit and return to

financial stability.

Our organizing and group sessions around the small-dollar

loan program revealed the need for an alternative to

payday lending in our communities. CCI’s campaign to

ensure that good, affordable credit is available in our

communities consists of bringing payday lenders to the

table to work out reasonable payment plans with borrowers,

demanding banks and credit unions meet the need of

small-dollar lending and pushing for legislation to cap

interest rates and extend payback periods on payday loans.

Using direct action, CCI members showed up at payday

loan shops in Des Moines to put them on notice and

request a meeting with their top officials. Members also

met with the Iowa Division of Banking’s Finance Bureau

Chief at our convention in July, pushed the Federal Reserve

Bank in August at a CCI-sponsored meeting attended by

250 people, met with state legislators and Tom Gronstal,

head of Iowa’s Division of Banking, as a lead-up to the

2010 legislative session, and held a community meeting

with payday lending expert Uriah King of the Center

for Responsible Lending to strategize on payday

lending legislation.

CCI members called out Wells Fargo for funneling hundreds

of millions in lines of credit to payday lenders. In October,

three dozen CCI members held a press conference that

revealed Securities and Exchange Commission and Uniform

Commercial Code filings tying Wells Fargo to payday

lending. Following the press conference, members visited

the executive offices of Wells Fargo in downtown

Des Moines to deliver a message to the bank’s regional

president: stop financing payday lenders.

Nearly 60 CCI members took our message of “Enough

is Enough” to the big banks at the Showdown in Chicago

in late October. Along with thousands of others from

organizations across the country, we confronted the

American Bankers Association, Wells Fargo and Goldman

Sachs, demanding they stop blocking financial reforms

and start putting people before big profits and bonuses.

The Showdown is part of a national campaign to hold

banks accountable.

Throughout 2009, CCI addressed economic hardships

through financial literacy and homeownership education.

We offered 24 financial classes and nine “Fast Track to

Homeownership” courses. Participants in our various

homeownership courses purchased more than $1.5 million

worth of real estate in Polk County and surrounding counties.

We served a total of 229 people through CCI’s financial

education classes, 58 through homeownership classes and

180 through one-on-one budget and credit counseling over

the course of the year.

housing & financial safety

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“CCI MEMBERS ALL HAVE A STORY TO

TELL, AND WHEN WE STAND UP WITH

ONE ANOTHER, OUR VOICES GET

HEARD SO WE CAN HAVE AN IMPACT.”

– LORI NELSON, CCI MEMBER

standing up for what is right

immigrant issues

Iowa CCI brings everyday people from all walks of life –

urban, rural, immigrants and lifelong Iowans – together to

get things done on issues that impact us most.

In 2009, CCI launched a worker-justice and wage-theft

campaign after hearing stories and complaints from new

immigrants in the community. We worked with other like-

minded organizations to win passage of a wage protection

and anti-child-labor bill, which provides additional

protection for workers regardless of immigration status.

And, we were successful in getting Iowa Workforce

Development to make a Spanish language wage claim form

available for Spanish speakers to use. We also got Iowa

Workforce Development to agree to allow us to assist

Spanish speakers in filing wage claims.

Iowa CCI is helping immigrants learn what they can do

to stand up for what’s right and stop wage theft and other

workplace abuses. We helped members stand up to

employers, file complaints with the Iowa Civil Rights

Commission and the Occupational Safety and Health Ad-

ministration, and recover unpaid wages. Using current labor

laws, CCI is going after unscrupulous employers to make

sure all workers, regardless of immigration status,

are protected.

In April, during the Congressional recess, CCI members

met with top staff for Congressman Leonard Boswell and

Senator Tom Harkin to push for immigration reform that

works for our communities, sharing how raids and

door-to-door visits are causing immigrants to live in fear

and stressing the concern for their children’s safety. As a

result, Boswell’s staff committed to looking into the issue

and agreed to set up a meeting between Boswell and

ICE officials.

In August, a dozen members met with Congressman

Tom Latham on Comprehensive Immigration Reform

and the DREAM Act [photo above], which makes college

more affordable for immigrant students. This meeting

was part of CCI’s ongoing campaign to bring immigrant

and non-immigrant members together to push our

members of Congress to pass fair immigration policies.

In November, two dozen members met with Representative

Mark Smith of Marshalltown who committed to work with

CCI to pass a state DREAM Act. Rep. Ako Abdul Samad of

Des Moines committed to introduce the bill in the legislature.

Also in November, a CCI member from Marshalltown was

one of only three callers to tell her story on a nationwide

teleconference with Congressman Luis Gutierrez (IL).

“I LIKE BEING A PART OF CCI BECAUSE

I LIKE TO BE ACTIVE IN THE COMMUNITY.

CCI ORGANIZES TO CREATE POSITIVE SOLUTIONS.”

– ELVIRA GUERRERO, CCI MEMBER

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Iowa CCI’s four-pronged strategy for reducing — or

eliminating — the influence of big money on our political

system consists of: 1.) better reporting, transparency and

disclosure, so everyday folks can see who’s trying to wine

and dine our elected officials; 2.) campaign contribution

limits; 3.) public financing of elections, or Voter Owned Iowa

Clean Elections (VOICE); and 4.) tougher enforcement when

campaign finance or disclosure laws are violated (in other

words, cracking down on violators, whether they’re elected

officials or big-money donors).

The current election funding system and escalating

campaign budgets trap candidates — whether Democrat,

Republican or Independent — in a never-ending fundraising

cycle. Under VOICE, candidates could choose to run using

public funding instead of constantly fundraising and

accepting money from big-money donors who want to

wield their influence. VOICE would let elected officials focus

on the job at hand, which is developing public policy that

serves the common good and puts people first. VOICE

would give us elections where people talk more and

money talks less.

In 2009, CCI members continued educating legislators and

pushing for VOICE and other important measures — like

campaign contribution limits (Iowa has none!). We raised

campaign finance issues at each of our Statehouse lobby

days, and on weekends during the session when legislators

attended coffees in their home districts. We also generated

good statewide press coverage through daily and weekly

papers, radio stories and well-read political blogs. Because

of our efforts, the campaign contribution limits bill

advanced out of committee for the first time ever.

During the summer

months, we met

with key legislators

from Des Moines,

Dubuque, Ames,

Iowa City and

Indianola to

continue building

support for VOICE

and the contribution

limits bill. Nearly 100 members were involved in these meetings.

And then in August, we filed an ethics complaint against

the Iowa Pharmacy Association (IPA) for violating disclosure

laws after it hosted a reception for lawmakers earlier in

the year, but failed to file a disclosure report for over five

months. State law says these reports must be filed within

five business days of the event. Our research found that

more than two dozen other lobbying groups had violated

state law by filing late. As a result, the House Ethics

Committee reprimanded the IPA and the other late filers,

and then drafted legislation with stronger filing, disclosure

and transparency requirements for these “wining and

dining” events. The committee also publicly thanked CCI

for bringing this issue to light.

On the national level, CCI members continued pushing

for passage of the Fair Elections Now Act (FENA) — which

is essentially VOICE at the federal level — through calls,

emails and face-to-face meetings with our Congressional

representatives and their staff. So far, Senator Tom Harkin

and Congressmen Bruce Braley and Dave Loebsack have

signed on as FENA co-sponsors. We’ll focus our efforts on

Congressman Leonard Boswell in 2010.

“IT’S IMPORTANT THAT PEOPLE KNOW WHO IS WINING AND DINING

OUR LAWMAKERS. THE NUMBERS MAKE IT CLEAR THAT THE LEGISLATURE

ISN’T ENFORCING ITS OWN RULES; THIS WAS A KEY OPPORTUNITY

TO SHOW THE PUBLIC WHAT IS GOING ON. WE NEED BETTER REPORTING,

CAMPAIGN CONTRIBUTION LIMITS AND A PUBLIC FINANCING OPTION

[VOICE].” – TYLER UETZ, CCI MEMBER

voter owned iowa clean elections

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leadership development

Iowa CCI is committed to deepening our leadership so

that we can realize the Iowa we all want to see. That is why

we have offered numerous opportunities for members to

develop their leadership skills:

One Leadership in Action leadership school in April.

Fourteen CCI members participated in the school, which

is designed to give members the tools to effect change

in their communities. Topics included: developing a

strategy, understanding power, leadership development,

how to tell your story, what organizing is and base-building

skills. Eighty percent of the leadership school attendees

have taken active leadership roles since attending.

Three half-day leadership trainings. These sessions

focused on helping members better understand what it

takes to move our issues at the Statehouse and how we

can have more power to set the agenda. Approximately

50 CCI members attended these sessions, which were

held in February, May and December.

In addition, two CCI members participated in the

National People’s Action “Leadership 100” training, which

was held at the Highlander Folks School in Tennessee

in December. The Highlander school was founded in

1932 and has a rich history in training civil rights leaders,

including Rosa Parks and Martin Luther King, Jr. This

powerful training session helped participants develop

their own leadership skills and learn how they can help

develop other leaders.

Iowa CCI’s leadership continues to grow across the state —

more than 200 members participated in trainings that CCI

offered in 2009.

INVESTING IN CHANGE: Doubling Down for Community Organizing — the Best Investment

In April, CCI was honored to host a roundtable discussion

on community organizing and using philanthropy to achieve

social change with Dave Beckwith and Mary Stranahan of

The Needmor Fund.

Needmor, which started from the fortune created by the

Champion Spark Plug Company, supports people who work

together to change the social, economic and political

conditions that bar their access to participation in a

democratic society. Both Dave and Mary agree that CCI

is one of the leading organizations in the nation creating

change through community organizing.

By all accounts, the roundtable was a great event. We had

45 people in attendance, including members, CCI major

donors, prospective donors, business partners, community

foundation representatives and other like-minded individuals.

Dave and Mary’s message to everyone was simple:

“In our 50-year history [at The Needmor Fund] we have

seen that community organizing is the most effective

means for engaging citizens in true democracy and

bringing about social change. And, now, more than ever,

philanthropic dollars for community organizing and civic

engagement are the best investments in the health and

well-being of our communities, states and nation.”

And, they challenged everyone to “double down” their

financial support for CCI. They said, “by supporting

community organizing, you are working with others to

create a more just and equitable society.” When you fund

organizing, you fund democracy — and that helps all of us.

DEVELOPING MEMBERS INTO LEADERS IS A CRITICAL

ELEMENT OF A POWERFUL COMMUNITY-ORGANIZING

GROUP. THE ESSENCE OF LEADERSHIP IS EVERYDAY PEOPLE

COMING TOGETHER TO ACT ON THEIR VISION AND VALUES

TO CREATE POSITIVE CHANGE, NOT JUST FOR THEMSELVES

BUT ALSO FOR THEIR COMMUNITIES.

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In the shock of Kathy’s passing from us, I’ve sought comfort

in her life so very well lived. Adrift in this long good-bye, I

have found some refuge in the joy and fulfillment she knew

in her work with Iowa CCI.

CCI’s long history of empowering everyday people around

shared concerns within their communities, authentic

homegrown populism, first caught her admiration. Their

ideals, discipline and pristine stewardship of entrusted

resources enlisted her as a tireless development director.

But it was the enthusiastic mix of work and play, long hours

enlivened by frequent bursts of laughter, song, mischief and

youthful energy that won her heart.

Kathy came home charged with that energy. She found

special pleasure in mentoring young workers; her

confidence firm that their idealism would be emboldened

by challenges taken on.

When she became ill, CCI didn’t miss a beat, remained a

model employer, held her place, kept her in the loop, visited

frequently, delivered suitably silly and always healing gifts.

Soon after her funeral, Hugh Espey, CCI executive director

and forever friend, came seeking my blessing and input in

how best to preserve and commit more than seventy financial

gifts received by CCI in Kathy’s memory. That conversation

was my first glimpse of a way forward, to reenter a life in a

way that would honor and sustain my wife’s legacy.

We’re building an endowment devoted to annual staff

development to nurture tomorrow’s leaders in the important

work Kathy liked to call building a community of conscience.

In my meetings with CCI staffers, their thoroughgoing,

on-point strategic discipline again and again blows me

away. Our fund has already grown to over $63,000!

I have no experience in soliciting the generosity of others,

but what I can do is ask that we all think big. Your entire gift

will become endowment principal, never to be depleted.

I ask you to share my confidence in this as an appropriate

acknowledgement of Kathy’s life and CCI’s work. If you

commonly give in tens, please think hundreds, if hundreds,

please think thousands…

A heartfelt thank you to staff, board, convention attendees

and friends for your generous contributions.

Thank You.

We would like to thank all of the individuals who gave an honorary or memorial gift in 2009. Your thoughtful and generous support is very much appreciated.

Gifts given in honor of:

Kurt & Arliss Kelsey, Gary & Donna Larsen,

Judy Lonning, Dwight & Bev Rutter, Ferol Wegner

Gifts given in memory of:

Edith Finley, Ernie Fleuette, Olive Jones,

Kathy McFarlin, David Partridge

We would also like to extend a special thank you to our

Get It Done Club members in 2009. Through your faithful

and generous monthly support, we raised $22,604 over

the course of the year.

And, thank you to our members who applied for a

matched gift from your employer in 2009. Your efforts to

double down your giving brought in an extra $1,885 to

the organization.

Kathy McFarlin Memorial Fund for Staff Development

LONG HELD VALUES AND EXPERIENCES OF SERVICE,

COMMUNITY AND SOCIAL JUSTICE CAME TOGETHER

AND KATHY’S PUBLIC VOICE FOUND ITS FULLEST

EXPRESSION IN HER FINAL WORKPLACE.

By Bret McFarlin

June 2009

CCI Named “Most Valuable Grassroots Advocacy Group” for 2009 by The Nation magazine.

We are honored that The Nation magazine named Iowa

CCI as an MVP (Most Valuable Progressive) for 2009. John

Nichols writes, “Although the MVP list, which makes its print

debut here, focuses on individuals and organizations, it is

really about issues and ideas. As such, the point is not to

identify perfect players so much as to make note of activists

and activist groups that may not get enough recognition

but that are having a demonstrable effect — in Washington

and around the country.”

We would like to thank those who make us a powerful organization recognized nationally for making a difference:

Thank you to National People’s Action (npa-us.org).

We’re proud to be an affiliate of this tough national

network of metropolitan, regional and statewide

organizations that build grassroots power to advance

racial and economic justice. Together we’ve been having

a big impact on justice issues for nearly 35 years.

Thank you to those who believe in and support our

mission and work. Thank you to our funders —

foundations, churches and businesses. Your continued

support means a lot to us.

And finally, the biggest thank you to our members.

It may sound cliché, but it’s true — members are what

make CCI the strong organization it is today. From your

membership dues to the actions you take — attending

local and statewide meetings, showing up at the Capitol,

contacting decision makers through your calls, e-mails

and letters, etc. — you put us on the map locally, state-

wide and nationally as a force to be reckoned with.

Thank you.

WE WISH TO EXPRESS OUR APPRECIATION

TO ALL THOSE WHO BELIEVE IN US AND

ARE WILLING TO INVEST GENEROUSLY.

TOGETHER WE ARE TACKLING TOUGH

ISSUES AND GETTING THINGS DONE.

Operations

Revenues $999,526

Foundations 54.1%

Individuals 23%

Churches 7.3%

Businesses 6.9%

Government 6.9%

Other 1.8%

Expenses $963,772

Program 91.3%

Support Services 6.4%

Fundraising 2.3%

Financials FY09

thank you

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COALITIONS, PARTNERSHIPS

& ALLIANCESCampaign for Family Farms and the Environment Center for Community Change Common Cause Fair Immigration Reform MovementFood & Water WatchHousing Service Providers including Re/Max Real Estate Concepts, Des Moines Municipal Housing Authority, HOME Inc., Iowa Finance Authority, Iowa Re-alty, Neighborhood Finance Corporation and the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban DevelopmentImmigrant Rights Network of IowaInterfaith Alliance of Iowa Institute for Social and Economic Development Iowa Allies for Immigration ReformIowa Attorney General’s OfficeIowa Catholic ConferenceIowa Chapter of the Sierra Club Iowa Citizen Action Network Iowa Conference United Methodist Church Iowa Farmers Union Iowa Home Ownership Education Project Iowa Immigration Education CoalitionIowa Renewable Energy AssociationIowa Workforce DevelopmentLeague of Women Voters of Iowa Lending Institutions including Bank of the West, Bankers Trust, Community State Bank, First American Bank, First Bank, Iowa State Bank, Regions Bank, Veridian Credit Union,

West Bank and U.S. BankNational Family Farm Coalition National People’s ActionProgressive Coalition of Central Iowa Public Campaign Reform Immigration for America Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom

CONSULTINGGrassroots Policy ProjectKentuckians for the CommonwealthKim Gilliam Consulting Services

Mary K. Ochs Consulting Services

The financial support of the following

institutions is appreciated:

Bank of the WestBankers Trust CompanyBen and Jerry’s FoundationCatholic Campaign for Human Development Center for Community ChangeCharles Stewart Mott Foundation Christian PrintersClean Water NetworkCommunity Development Block Grant (City of Des Moines)Community Foundation of Marshall CountyDiane Middleton FoundationDiscount Foundation Educational Foundation of America The Evangelical Lutheran Church in AmericaFarm Aid

Ford FoundationFranciscan Sisters of Perpetual AdorationGreater Des Moines Community Foundation The ING FoundationIowa Appraisal Advisory CouncilIowa Home Ownership Education ProjectIowa State BankIrwin Andrew PorterKnapp Properties, Inc.McKnight FoundationThe Meredith Corporation FoundationMeta BankNational People’s ActionNationwide FoundationNeedmor FundNorman FoundationOcwen Financial ServicesPatagoniaPiper FundPresbytery of Des MoinesPrincipal Financial Group Foundation, Inc.Retirement Research FoundationRE/Max PropertiesSchool Sisters of Notre Dame (St. Louis)Select PortfolioSchool Sisters of Notre DameUnitarian Universalist Veatch Program at Shelter RockUnited Church of ChristU.S. BancorpU.S. Department of Housing and Urban DevelopmentVeridian Credit Union Wellmark Blue Cross & Blue Shield

coalitions and alliances

Iowa Citizens for Community Improvement works closely with other groups

on issues that are important to our members. These are key coalitions and

alliances and consulting relationships we maintained during 2009:

“WE BELIEVE IN SOCIAL CHANGE. WE BELIEVE IN

THE METHODOLOGY OF COMMUNITY ORGANIZING

BECAUSE IT WORKS…CCI IS AN EXCELLENT

NATIONAL EXAMPLE OF THAT METHODOLOGY.”

– DAVE BECKWITH, THE NEEDMOR FUND

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