Grant Awards 2025
As of June 2025
Community Foundation of Greater Dubuque: Promising Futures Grants: $3,000, $2,371, $2,700
Franciscan Sisters of Perpetual Adoration (FSPA): Two $10,000 Grants
Women’s Circle Grant: $1,500
In July 2024, the Lantern Center received an $80,000 ($40K for 2 years) grant from the Dubuque Racing Association. This was the largest grant in our organization’s 23-year history!
The Lantern Center was thrilled to have been selected as the 100+ Men Who Care: Tri-State Area’s 2024 4th quarter recipient receiving $14,500! For more information on this amazing organization, click here!
Grant & Corporate Foundation Awards 2024
City of Dubuque – Purchase of Service: $20,000
Dubuque Racing Association: $80,000 ($40K for 2 years)
Franciscan Sisters of Perpetual Adoration: Two $8,000 Grants
McDonough Foundation: $2,000
Promising Futures: $2,000 & $3,000
Sisters of Charity Ministry Grant: $20,000
Sisters of St. Francis Ministry Fund: $20,000
Spahn & Rose Charitable Foundation: $500
Theisen’s More for Your Community: $1,500
United Way of Dubuque Area Tri-States: $30,000
Wahlert Foundation: $1,500
Women’s Giving Circle: $1,855
Welcoming our Afghan brothers and sisters
What can we do locally to help Afghan refugees who are starting a new life here in the U.S.? We’ve heard this question many times from supporters in the past months. Currently, about 13,000 Afghans are living at Fort McCoy, about 125 miles north of Dubuque.
If you have the space and energy in your life to spend at least a week volunteering at Fort McCoy, you can apply here Accommodations, training and meals will be provided, but you must travel there on your own.
Catholic Charities of La Crosse is helping lead the efforts to welcome Afghans at Fort McCoy. They are taking applications for shorter-term volunteers. They are not accepting donations of used items, but they have registries where you can purchase specific items that are needed. If you exchange Christmas presents, consider asking loved ones to give your Christmas present early by purchasing an item on the registry. It’s quickly getting cold in Wisconsin, and items like warm coats and new scarves are needed now. Find out more information here
You can also help by preparing to welcome Afghans in Iowa. The Catherine McAuley Center based in Cedar Rapids has committed to helping resettle 250 Afghans in the coming year, as well as 300 refugees. here you can find a link to a Google form where you can indicate interest in helping Afghans come home to Eastern Iowa, including as a landlord, employer or English tutor.
Further west in the state, Lutheran Services of Iowa will have the capacity to welcome about 500 Afghans, mostly in Des Moines and Sioux City. Read about their efforts here:
