Founded by Senator Charles Grassley, Face It Together is a not for profit organization whose mission is to provide information, education, and encouragement to Iowans fighting the problem of drug use in order to build healthy kids, healthy families, healthy communities, and a healthy future for Iowa. Face It Together is based on the notion that making Iowa communities drug-free is up to all of us.

FIT began when Senator Grassley became deeply concerned about what he was hearing from Iowans about drugs, particularly methamphetamine. In seeking ways to help Iowa, the Senator pulled together a statewide anti-drug coalition comprised of representatives from the business, medical, law enforcement, treatment, prevention, media, religious, school, and government communities to analyze the extent of the problem. In the fall of 1999, Governor Thomas Vilsack joined the board, again.