As this godforsaken year nears its end, giving way to the comforts but mostly stresses of the holiday season, there’s no better time to turn your focus local — from gift-shopping to just plain giving. The Give Guide in this magazine will point you towards an Iowa-based nonprofit (or a dozen, or 100) combatting injustice in a neighborhood near you in the realms of healthcare, housing, hunger, the environment and education.
Also inside: How scrappy Des Moines activists are staying ahead of the city’s draconian homeless policies; why crisis pregnancy centers get away with misleading women on state funding; and what it means to be a “nonconformer artist.”
Plus: Coloring in Colleen “Dr. Art” Ernst’s legacy in Iowa City; Kembrew McLeod recalls selling records to a young Pharrell Williams; A local comic artist starts his own sci-fi, POC-centric cinematic universe; Central Iowa’s year-round farmers market commences; a rapid-fire round of Dear Kiki, and much more.
