Dreamer: Tyler Anderson

Business: Roller City

Location: Mason City, IA

Roller City needs your help to achieve our dream: re-finish our skating floor! Last year, we played host to over 28,000 skaters. A re-finished floor would go a long way in serving families and individuals in our community! If we end up winning, we will host a free skating party to celebrate!

Dreamer: Jake Prazak

Business: NIP & Fitness Center

Location: mason city, IA

NIP Fitness has one overall goal. That goal is to make North Iowa healthier by offering the best in nutrition and exercise equipment while also giving back to our community. We hold special events here for kids fighting illness's, kids with special needs, and kids events in general. We would use the...

Dreamer: Liz Neighbors

Business: Beyond Baby Inc.

Location: Eagle Grove, IA

Beyond Baby Inc. is a small business that cares for breastfeeding families in Iowa. This business was started by Liz Neighbors, a nurse, mother, and lactation professional that met some challenges as she worked to breastfeed her two daughters. There was no service in the area that catered to families...

Dreamer: Stacey Wood

Business: Fashion Gemz

Location: Mason City, IA

My new clothing store Fashion Gemz has opened in Mason City. The store is beautiful and the racks are full. We are set back a little way from the highway in a newly refurbished strip center. Because we are not highly visible we could use some advertising to promote our store so people know where we...

Dreamer: Jennifer Kellogg

Business: Jadiva

Location: Mason City, IA

Jadiva is all about jewelry, the arts, and teaching my techniques to others. I make various types of jewelry, photography, and original arts. By selling my designs at the local Main Street Market and teaching a few classes at the local art museum I have noticed a need for both handmade goods as well...

Dreamer: Danny DeVries

Business: Wright Eyes by Danny

Location: Clarion, IA

Wright Eyes is an Optical Center located in Clarion, Iowa. Danny DeVries, owner of Wright Eyes has been working in the optical retail industry for thirty-two years. She has an extensive background in providing high satisfaction to customers in meeting their eye wear needs. When a local Optometrist...

Dreamer: Yulia Dannen

Business: Dannen Accounting,Payroll & Income Tax, LLC. DBA: D & S Services

Location: Mason City, IA

D & S Services is a small practice providing tax, payroll and accounting services to meet the needs of individuals & small businesses. Our company was created with the MISSION to provide superior quality, professional individual & business tax preparation, payroll and accounting services at reasonable...

Dreamer: Kimberly West

Business: Personality-Ville

Location: Mason City, IA

Help Personality-Ville® start a revolution! Personality-Ville is a personality style kingdom with multiple products of books, games, online tests and more, all by using illustrated Kingdom Crests of the four temperaments. Speakers, trainers, counselors, teachers & people of all ages from around the globe,...

Dreamer: Laura Dicke

Business: The Green Impact Company

Location: Eagle Grove, IA

The Green Impact Co is creator of the original Security Shutter and we want to base our marketing & manufacturing plant in Eagle Grove, IA. Gutter Glove Protection, Rated #1 in Consumer Reports. Lifetime Water Management System that you can harvest rainwater or snow with! Solar Shield Insulation...

Dreamer: Tony Halsted

Business: Hoovers Hatchery

Location: Rudd, IA

Hoovers Hatchery is a 70 year old company specializing in the hatching of baby chicks. We own our own breeding stock and develop the highest quality chickens for natural raising by small farmers, hobby farmers and mid level growers. We pride ourselves on being a family owned, small business know nationally...

Dreamer: DEB MCNEILUS

Business: DARBE&CO.; BOUTIQUE

Location: CHARLES CITY, IA

Darbe & Co Boutique offers style-conscious women full-circle beauty from morning to evening with a splash of energy and fun. We are a locally owned, locally operated business. We opened our doors on February 16, 2013, in a Main Street building which is 3,500 square feet. The Boutique is home to the...

Dreamer: vicky zimmerman

Business: Roger & Vicky's Cafe

Location: Charles City, IA

Our business is ment to bring friends together for a relaxing enviorment to catch up on lost time. A place to hold a business meeting and accomplish your goals for the business. A place for kids bring in there home work and have access to the internet so they can accomplish there goals of completing...

Dreamer: Amy & Chad Olson

Business: AC Outfitters & Fur Trade

Location: Osage, IA

AC Outfitters & Fur Trade will sell hunting, fishing, trapping and archery equipment. We will also have techno hunt which is a virtual bow hunting simulator. We will service bows and help teach people how to shoot if they are new to bow shooting. We will also buying fur and deer hides. We are applying...

Dreamer: Renea Scott

Business: Scott Transcription Services

Location: Clear Lake, IA

My business takes on clients from all over the US, allows them to dictate onto our free service and then employees type the dictation, upload to a secure site and the client then has a completed document to review, edit or print. I am applying for this contest because I would love to hire more employees,...

Dreamer: RuthAhh Zimmerman

Business: HaddyGrace

Location: Floyd , IA

HaddyGrace is an online Children's clothing boutique, designed to put the style back into comfort and function! We often work directly with mom to create the exact outfit that they have in mind for their children! through our Esty shop we have gained thousands of loyal customers and are currently...

Dreamer: Cheri Brueggeman

Business: Mod Photography

Location: Clear Lake, IA

There is nothing more inspiring than capturing people in their world, whether it’s a special event or just every day life! We would like to build a photography studio and would use the money to meet our clients needs with the space. We are here to help people in any way we can and love creating images...

Dreamer: Mike Booth

Business: North Country Grain Systems llc

Location: Hampton, IA

I have been in agriculture all my life. I use these products on my own farm. I was in the need of a service provider and never had one with my equipment purchased. I have been providing my service to farmers and coops through other companies and want to go out on my own. I am applying for this contest...

Dreamer: Stacy Anderson

Business: Hanson Family Life Center

Location: Forest City, IA

Our goal at Hanson Family Life Center is to provide a high quality nurturing program for children in a Christian-based atmosphere. Our building was built 16 years ago and with the high volume of children that have passed through our program our building is in need of some updating. With this grant...

Dreamer: Jayne Kirschbaum

Business: Decorating & Design by Jayne

Location: Garner, IA

I am a very creative person so my dream has always been to share this with everyone. I so custom sewing and alterations but I also do interior decorating specializing in what I call curb side rescue. I collect items that can be repaired and re purposed. I also do wedding decorating. I am applying...