Quakerdale of Waterloo

Located in Waterloo, Iowa, Northeast Iowa Food Bank is a social welfare organization that provides food and grocery products for individuals, as well as various nonprofit organizations. It offers food distribution, elderly weekend bags and operation family pack programs. The organization provides food boxes for senior citizens who live in Black Hawk, Butler, Chickasaw, Bremer, Buchanan, Marshall, Poweshiek, Tama and Grundy counties in Iowa. Northwest Iowa Food Bank is part of a nationwide food distribution s network that operates more than 1,600 food serving sites that annually provide over 12 million meals to children in nearly 40 U.S. states. The organization offers backpacks for children in schools, churches, and day care and community centers. It receives funds from the Cedar Valley United Way and the Waverly-Shell Rock United Way. The Northeast Iowa Food Bank is a member of Feeding America, which is one of the largest charitable hunger relief organizations in the United Sates.

Friendship Village is retirement community for individuals aged 60 and above, and is located in Waterloo, Iowa. It has more than 400 senior citizens utilizing living in over 300 apartments and cottages. It offers facilities, including common areas, a chapel, grounds and an on-site health center. It provides services, such as laundry, window washing, snow removal, maintenance of the buildings and grounds, and shuttle bus service for shopping, professional appointments, worship services and entertainment. It also has barbershop and woodworking shop, and activity and exercise rooms. It provides one meal daily in the central dining area. It offers activities, such as woodworking, billiards, painting, crafts and shuffleboard. The apartments have facilities of a kitchen, bathroom, heating and air conditioning, closet space and smoke- and fire-detection system. The emergency call signals are linked to the health center.