2025 Projects

The Jacksonville Senior Wellness & Activity Center is a nonprofit wellness center for senior adults that provides socialization, transportation, and meals in our center as well as home delivered meals for homebound seniors. With the Lowe’s Hometowns grant, the center will build a brand new seating area and pavilion outside of its facility, and repair its kitchen floor by applying an epoxy, non-slip finish to the concrete. These projects will help secure a safe and comfortable meeting space for our seniors, as well as secure the longevity of the organization's kitchen to ensure that we can continue to provide services to our seniors for years to come.

The Kansas Humane Society is a resource for pets and their people, helping homeless and abandoned pets for over 135 years. The Lowe’s Hometown grant will allow KHS to update and upgrade the laundry facilities and the volunteer center at our shelter. These renovations will ensure animals have a hygienic environment while they stay at KHS, reducing the spread of disease, as well as decreasing energy costs, and improving staff and volunteer efficiency.

The Kent County YMCA is committed to strengthening the community through programs that promote healthy living, youth development, and social responsibility. With the Lowe’s Hometowns grant, the YMCA will renovate its indoor and outdoor spaces, including replacing lobby and gym flooring, updating classroom wall panels, painting the building, repairing pavilion roofs, replacing amphitheater floorboards, and adding a new activity space. These improvements will enhance the safety, accessibility, and overall experience for over 4,000 community members, ensuring the YMCA continues to serve as a vital resource for health and wellness.

Kōkua Hawaiʻi Foundation is a nonprofit organization that supports environmental education in the schools and communities of Hawaiʻi by providing opportunities that enhance appreciation for and understanding of the environment to inspire lifelong stewards of the earth. With funding from Lowe's Hometowns, KHF will build the Kōkua Community Center by upgrading the storage area for the Kōkua General Store to be a multifunctional community center space, installing new bathrooms, flooring, upgrading electrical and lighting units, building storage areas, and installing a solar system. This renovation will also build indoor and outdoor spaces to provide a gathering place for the community to learn, share skills, stories and ideas, through workshops, classes and other learning opportunities that cultivate long-lasting behavior change around sustainability.

Founded in 1984, the Lynn Shelter Association believes every person deserves a place to call home and our mission is to provide a safe environment for each individual to define and pursue their goals for independence and self-sufficiency. With the Lowe's Hometowns grant, LSA will replace old, damaged, and unhealthy carpeting on the staircases and in the common areas of the four-story Osmund Building with heavy-duty, durable vinyl tile plank flooring. The building provides affordable housing for approximately 100 formerly homeless individuals and families. This renovation is an investment in the long-term health, stability and quality of life for people who have overcome homelessness and worked tirelessly to reclaim their lives.

Macomb County Rotating Emergency Shelter Team's (MCREST ) mission is to provide homeless and displaced individuals the opportunity for a successful transition to independence. With the Lowe’s Hometowns grant, MCREST will renovate an area of their current shelter into a 24-bed men’s shelter by completing interior demolition, installing new flooring and paint, upgrading bathrooms, and assembling beds and furnishings. These improvements will create a safe, stable, and welcoming environment for men experiencing homelessness in Macomb County, helping them access shelter, support services, and a pathway to permanent housing.

Manatee County Habitat for Humanity (MCHFH) builds homes, communities, and hope for low-income families. MCHFH will repair homes damaged by three hurricanes in 2024 and strengthen them against future storms. The community will benefit because these homeowners will be safer in their homes during future storms and will be less likely to need financial assistance, to be rescued by community rescue squads or to stay in County-maintained hurricane shelters.

The New Mom and Baby Project will convert two underused rooms at Metropolitan Ministries' MiraclePlace, one of the lead emergency shelters in Tampa Bay, into nurseries for new and expecting mothers. These nurseries will provide a safe and comfortable environment for breastfeeding and family bonding, with support from Lowe’s volunteers to design and furnish the spaces. This project is essential to alleviate stress for mothers, support postpartum health, foster a sense of community, and support families on their journey to self-sufficiency.

Mid Coast Hunger Prevention Program, the largest food access agency in a six-county region of Maine, has empowered low-income populations with dignified access to food for over 41 years. With the Lowe’s Hometowns grant, MCHPP's main food pantry and soup kitchen will add a welcoming, ADA-compliant front entrance, refurbished restrooms, freshly painted floors and walls, a weather-resilient entry awning, a replacement deli case, painted parking spaces, and replacement heating/cooling pumps to reduce noise and regulate temperature. These renovations will expand the capacity of the center, offering clients a more welcoming, dignified and accessible experience, while allowing staff and volunteers to more efficiently store and distribute groceries and meals.

Milestone Recovery provides compassionate, life-saving care to individuals battling homelessness, substance use disorders, and mental health challenges. With the Lowe’s Hometowns grant, Milestone will create a sanctuary of healing through a 12' x 24' gazebo, a peaceful reflection area with gardens, and a hardscaped pathway illuminated to offer safety and accessibility. This outdoor space will provide individuals in early recovery a place to find calm, support, and hope — a critical step toward rebuilding their lives with dignity and resilience.

Moore Youth & Family Services supports wellness for youth and families. With the Lowe’s Hometowns grant, the agency will revitalize the facility with new paint, landscaping, and a new reception area that makes it feel inviting and safe for youth and families. These improvements will expand the footprint of the agency and enhance the satisfaction of those receiving services.

New Life Center is one of the largest standalone domestic violence shelters in Arizona and has been a place of hope and refuge for families and individuals for more than 30 years. The Lowe’s Hometowns grant will help renovate eight of the organization's emergency shelter casitas, including installing new bathroom fixtures, durable flooring, and energy efficient lighting. These improvements will ensure that survivors of domestic violence have a welcoming and calming environment in which to stabilize, heal, and transition into the next phase of their lives.

Newhouse, the first domestic violence shelter in Kansas City and the only one in its urban core, provides shelter, food, clothing, and supportive services to survivors of domestic violence. With the Lowe’s Hometowns grant, Newhouse will tackle much-needed upgrades and renovations since they moved into the building in 1999, including kitchen, food service, laundry room, and common area renovations and updates. These projects will help make Newhouse feel more like a home for adults, children, and pets escaping domestic violence.

Northern Virginia Family Service (NVFS) empowers individuals and families to achieve stability and self-sufficiency through housing, workforce development, and essential support services. With support from Lowe’s Hometowns, NVFS will renovate two community bathrooms at the SERVE Family Shelter, enhancing safety, accessibility, and hygiene for families experiencing homelessness. These improvements will create a dignified, trauma-informed environment that fosters stability and wellbeing for hundreds of individuals each year as they work toward permanent housing.

Our Place supports people with intellectual and developmental disabilities to live meaningful, productive, socially connected lives in their home community. With the Lowe’s Hometowns grant, Our Place will renovate a recently purchased old church building to make the front door and bathrooms accessible, add key fob security access to the entrance doors, renovate an art room for participants, resurface the front walkway and back stairwell for safety. This project will ensure that Our Place is safe and accessible for our participants with disabilities.

Pasadena Humane is dedicated to promoting compassion and care for all animals through sheltering, education, and community outreach. With support from Lowe’s Hometowns, the organization will complete a seismic retrofit of its 1930s Wildlife Department building. This critical improvement will ensure the safety of staff, volunteers, and over 1,300 injured and orphaned wild animals served each year, strengthening the region’s capacity for wildlife rescue and rehabilitation.

Pathways empowers women and children out of homelessness through hospitality, housing, and hope through four programs: two overnight shelters, a Day Center, and an Early Learning Center. The renovations will add an infant classroom to serve more children ages 8 weeks to 6 years in our Early Learning Center that exclusively serves children experiencing homelessness. The program helps keep individuals in the workforce, reduces the number of people experiencing homelessness, and prepares children for education during the most crucial years.

For 50 years, the mission of Preble Street has been to provide accessible, barrier-free services to empower people experiencing problems with homelessness, housing, hunger, and poverty and to advocate for solutions to these problems. The Lowe’s Hometowns grant will transform an underused and unsafe area of the Elena’s Way Wellness Shelter into a client consultation room and conference room through demolition, framing, installing furnishing, and updates such as mechanical retrofitting, electrical rewiring, painting, and finish work. By creating dedicated spaces for client meetings and staff collaboration, this project will strengthen our team’s capacity to address complex needs and ultimately help more individuals transition out of homelessness.

Project Beacon is dedicated to creating a community of belonging for adults with autism and other neurodiversities by creating inclusive spaces and opportunities that empower individuals to build independence and engage meaningfully in their communities. With support from Lowe’s Hometowns, the organization will enhance the Beacon Access Center by installing durable flooring, improving lighting and communication systems, adding sensory-friendly features, and upgrading accessibility through wayfinding signage and outdoor gathering spaces. These renovations will transform the Center into a fully inclusive, neurodiverse-friendly environment where individuals with autism and other neurodiversities can develop essential life skills, foster social connections, and thrive in a space designed for their success.

St. Roch Community Garden is dedicated to increasing food access, environmental education, and sustainable agriculture in New Orleans. With the Lowe’s Hometowns grant, the organization will install two additional shipping containers, build a rooftop greenhouse, implement a rainwater collection system, and enhance security with fencing and vertical growing trellises. These improvements will expand the ability to provide fresh produce to local families, offer hands-on learning opportunities for youth, and create a welcoming gathering space for community events and workshops.

RecoveryWorks is committed to providing access to resources, community, and recovery for Jefferson County’s unhoused neighbors. With the support of the Lowe’s Hometowns Grant, RecoveryWorks will renovate a storage and workshop room into a central meeting space for recovery groups and staff meetings by enhancing electrical outlets, installing new flooring and drywall, adding cabinets, furniture, decorations, and applying a fresh coat of paint. These upgrades will strengthen RecoveryWorks' ability to foster healing and connection by creating a welcoming, supportive environment where guests can recover through community.

ReNforce supports justice-impacted women through housing, workforce development, and healing-centered reentry services. With the Lowe’s Hometowns grant, Redemption House will transform its outdoor space by rebuilding storm-damaged fencing, screening in the back patio, and creating a healing garden and gathering area. These improvements will offer safety, dignity, and connection—restoring not just a space, but hope and belonging for women reentering their communities.

Rise Disaster Relief & Recovery, Inc. (RISE) is a nonprofit organization established to bridge the gap between available federal disaster relief and the ongoing needs of the community. RISE provides with dignity, compassion, humility, and kindness, relief and mitigation to citizens impacted by natural and human-caused disasters. RISE will continue to serve the citizens of Spruce Pine through revitalization efforts to rebuild the Riverside Park.

Ronald McDonald House of Greater Charlotte is the only nonprofit organization serving families of sick or injured children in the greater Charlotte region with essential services such as private accommodation, daily meals, and other critical support. With the Lowe’s Hometowns grant, RMHC of GC will improve the experience for thousands of guest families by renovating one the most highly trafficked and outdated multipurpose spaces, the laundry room, by optimizing the layout of the space, upgrading well-loved and inefficient furniture and supplies, and creating intentional and purpose-built areas. These renovations will streamline guest experiences through improved spatial functionality, creation of privacy, and enhanced the atmosphere, allowing RMHC of GC to accomplish our goal of providing families with a comforting “home-away-from-home” amidst their child’s medical crisis.