NewsCategory: Employee Ownership

VGM Group Inc. is excited to announce the ninth HME Woman of the Year Award celebration will be held during its Heartland Conference, June 9–11, 2025, in Waterloo, Iowa.

On Tuesday, Oct. 1, VGM kicked off Employee Ownership Month by unveiling its new 100% Employee Owned flag!

Since opening our own child care center in November of 2023, VGM Group has seen firsthand how access to quality, affordable child care and education Makes a Difference. VGM’s Q3 community giving aims to expand that opportunity to even more area families by focusing on child care and summer programming for children.

Sometimes, all a kid needs is to be comforted by mom or dad. It can make all the difference. And one of the best things about VGM’s new on-site child care center is that you can be right there for your kids when they need you. That’s been a major benefit to Tyler Mahncke, president of U.S. Rehab, who has two kids in VGM’s child care center.

Nick Dideriksen, director of business technology for Forbin’s managed IT services, and his wife Briley know a thing or two about child care in the Cedar Valley. The two have three kids: daughters Quinn, who turns 8 in July, and Lennon, who turned 6 in April, and son Brooks, who turned 3 in May.

Since it opened in November 2023, VGM Group’s on-site child care center has been a life-changing benefit to its working parents. Now, VGM is excited to extend that same benefit to even more of its families.  

VGM Group, in partnership with the Waterloo Community Foundation, has awarded six $1,500 scholarships to dependents of VGM Group employees. “At VGM, we believe that supporting our employee owners also involves supporting their loved ones,” said VGM Chief People Officer Sara Laures.

“The child care center was one of the main reasons VGM appealed to me,” said Samantha Doering (Corporate Communications & Events). Her 19-month-old son Weston, who Samantha says is now “a completely different kid,” started going to the VGM child care center when it opened in November 2023.