Country music star and former Lowe’s associate Kane Brown gives back to his hometown of Chattanooga through a rehab and revitalization project with the Boys & Girls Club. The project will provide a much-needed new library, computer lab and large teen lounge for the club whose mission is to enable young people to realize their full potential and become productive, responsible, and caring citizens.
An organization that created a building and trades skills course at the local technical college needs support to complete their Mobile Bus Shop which will serve as a Construction Academy. Housed in a former school bus, the hands-on mobile classroom will expand their reach and bring construction skills education to younger generations at area secondary schools and other youth-centered organizations in the town.
A nonprofit organization working to eliminate barriers to housing, employment and community connection for the formerly incarcerated, homeless or drug addicted seeks support in creating a construction classroom offering skills training for construction industry trainees. The organization aims to create and rebuild a collaborative, one-stop re-integration resource center that offers access to housing, jobs/jobs training, treatment, and therapy in an effort to reduce recidivism rates.
A local grocery business in a community still struggling to recover from Hurricane Katrina seeks to create an area on its property where people of all ages in the community can come to take advantage of free internet access, enabling them to complete tasks and school assignments in a safe congregational space.
An organization that helps improve the quality of life for the disabled by partnering them with specially trained service dogs seeks to renovate its restroom facilities to be accessible to clients with disabilities, specifically making larger stalls that will allow both client and service dog to comfortably fit into them simultaneously.
A grassroots, community-run youth center dedicated to empowering the lives of children and their families seeks assistance in renovating and repairing its space so it can continue to combat poverty through a wide range of programs and resources focused on education, mentorship, health, career and life-skills services. The center also plays a pivotal role in helping seniors and families get medication and health services they cannot afford.
A community center seeks to renovate its dated and poor functioning kitchen so it can better provide food services for those in need, including seniors and disabled individuals. The project will allow the center to have a more professional, efficient, and sanitary kitchen — including a teaching kitchen — from which to launch new free and fee-for-service programs that will enrich the community and bring nutrition and wellness, education, social interaction, and fun to the world of food and nutrition.
A youth boxing program that helps get youths off the streets and into the boxing ring to help them let out their frustrations, gain discipline and build a sense of responsibility seeks assistance in completing construction on its new location so it can open its doors and continue to promote education and wellness through boxing.
An organization that provides accessible, high quality mental health services to children and their families seeks to repair damages to its building sustained during a winter storm as well as add additional therapy space to provide care for more clients and reconfigure bathrooms to accommodate gender non-conforming clients. The improvements will provide a safe, welcoming, and inclusive space from which they can continue to provide a continuum of care.
A clothes closet in a low-income area seeks assistance in repairing and renovating a building that is outdated and inadequate, so it can continue to meet demand and serve clients safely and with dignity. Enabling much-needed access to used clothing, the clothes closet serves the working poor in conjunction with the local food pantry.