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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Hope Ministries has been serving individuals and families facing homelessness, hunger, abuse or addiction in Central Iowa since 1915, providing free warm meals, safe shelter and life-changing recovery programs. With the Lowe’s Hometowns grant, the nonprofit will renovate its new 24-unit affordable, supportive housing campus for men and building out the lower level to include a lounge/game room, fitness room, classroom, case manager office and large meeting room for recovery group gatherings.
For nearly 40 years, Friendship House has connected people experiencing homelessness in Delaware with vital resources through its empowerment centers, transitional housing program, clothing bank, and seasonal programs. The Lowe’s Hometowns grant will fund renovations to the Wilmington Empowerment Center - which serves over 3,000 people annually - enhancing safety, accessibility, and aesthetics by improved lighting, flooring, plumbing, and electricity throughout the center. These upgrades will create a more welcoming and dignified environment—one that fosters hope.