Cedar Falls Area Education Organizations Awarded Grants by the Principal Financial Group Foundation, Inc.; Funds Will Benefit Programs for Area Youth and College Students.CEDAR FALLS, Iowa Cedar Falls is a city in Black Hawk County, Iowa, United States, and it is home to one of Iowa's three public universities, the University of Northern Iowa. The population was 36,145 at the 2000 census. -- In an effort to support community needs in the Cedar Falls/Waterloo area, the Principal Financial Group Foundation, Inc. provided grants totaling $19,000 during second quarter 2005 to local youth-oriented education organizations and the University of Northern Iowa The University of Northern Iowa, in Cedar Falls, Iowa, was founded in 1876, as the Iowa State Normal School. It has colleges of Business Administration, Education, Humanities and Fine Arts, Natural Sciences, and Social and Behavioral Sciences, and a graduate school. . Organizations benefiting from the grants program include: --University of Northern Iowa - The grant will support scholarships to students studying in the real estate program at the University of Northern Iowa. --Junior Achievement of Black Hawk Black Hawk (born 1767, Sauk Sautenuk, Va.—died Oct. 3, 1838, village on the Des Moines River, Iowa, U.S.) Sauk Indian leader. Long antagonistic to whites, Black Hawk was driven into Iowa from Illinois in 1831. Land and East Central Iowa - The Personal Economics program of Junior Achievement aims to increase students' understanding of finance, paying taxes, handling credit cards and saving for the future. --Waterloo-Cedar Falls Dollars for Scholars - Dollars for Scholars mobilizes and unites local citizens and encourages local students to reach for and achieve their educational goals. Scholarships are awarded to deserving graduating high school seniors. Other grant recipients include Family & Children's Council of Black Hawk County and Volunteer Center of Cedar Valley Cedar Valley may refer to:
These grants were made as part of the quarterly charitable grants program of the Principal Financial Group and the Principal Financial Group Foundation. The second quarter grants cycle focuses on education and funds scholarships and educational programming offered by a variety of not-for-profit organizations in targeted communities. The Principal Financial Group and the Principal Financial Group Foundation also awarded a total of $789,315 in education grants in other communities where The Principal(R) has a significant employee presence, including Des Moines Des Moines, city, United States Des Moines (dĭ moin`), city (1990 pop. 193,187), state capital and seat of Polk co., S central Iowa, at the junction of the Des Moines and Raccoon rivers; inc. , Mason City, Ottumwa and Pella, Iowa; Grand Island, Neb.; Indianapolis, Ind.; Middletown, Conn.; Phoenix/Tucson, Ariz.; Spokane, Wash.; and Wilmington, Del. For a full list of 2005 grant recipients, visit www.principal.com/about/giving. About the Principal Financial Group Foundation The Principal Financial Group Foundation provides grants on a quarterly basis in the following categories: Health and Human Services Noun 1. Health and Human Services - the United States federal department that administers all federal programs dealing with health and welfare; created in 1979 Department of Health and Human Services, HHS (first quarter); Education (second quarter); Arts and Culture (third quarter); and Recreation and Tourism (fourth quarter). The Principal Financial Group Foundation, Inc. was formed in 1987 to help support communities in which the Principal Financial Group has a major employee presence. For more information about the Foundation grants program, visit www.principal.com. About the Principal Financial Group The Principal Financial Group(R) (The Principal (R))(1) is a leader in offering businesses, individuals and institutional clients a wide range of financial products and services, including retirement and investment services, life and health insurance, and banking through its diverse family of financial services companies. A member of the Fortune 500, the Principal Financial Group has $187.8 billion in assets under management Assets Under Management (AUM) is a term used by financial services companies in the mutual fund and money management or investment management business to gauge how much money they are managing. (2) and serves some 15.2 million customers worldwide from offices in Asia, Australia, Europe, Latin America and the United States. Principal Financial Group, Inc. is traded on the New York Stock Exchange New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) World's largest marketplace for securities. The exchange began as an informal meeting of 24 men in 1792 on what is now Wall Street in New York City. under the ticker symbol Ticker Symbol An arrangement of characters (usually letters) representing a particular security listed on an exchange or otherwise traded publicly. When a company issues securities to the public marketplace, it selects an available ticker symbol for its securities which investors PFG PFG Principal Financial Group PFG Performance Food Group (Richmond, VA) PFG Pinnacle Financial Group PFG Plasma Flood Gun PFG Planning for Growth PFG Pasty Faced Geek PFG Perfluoroguanidine . For more information, visit www.principal.com. (1) "The Principal Financial Group" and "The Principal" are registered service marks of Principal Financial Services, Inc., a member of the Principal Financial Group. (2) As of June 30, 2005 |
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