With a new, larger home that provides additional space to house young mothers and their children, Our Mother’s Home will provide necessities and educational services for its residents, including community education classes, a computer lab, and a clothing store for both residents and other young families in the community.
The Metropolitan Ministries MiraclePlace Emergency Shelter supports families in need of housing. With 50 1 bedroom/1 bathroom units and no common space, the facility does not function well for families. The community room will be transformed from a storage room to a multi-purpose space where staff can facilitate self-sufficiency trainings, adults can use computers to develop resumes, apply for jobs, and complete GED or certificate course requirements, teens and children can complete homework assignments and families can spend time together.
Founded in 1948, Easterseals Florida offers a variety of services to help people with disabilities address life's challenges and achieve personal goals. The Lowe’s Hometowns grant will provide much-needed updates to one of the cabins at their special-needs camping facility, including new interior walls, doors, floors, paint, water heater, washer/dryer and bathroom renovations. Six bathrooms in a 3-cabin unit will also be fully renovated with new toilets, painted, and new vanities.
The Boys & Girls Club of Tampa Bay needs critical flooring repairs to ensure safety in its main programming spaces including a computer and learning lab. The current damaged and missing flooring will be replaced with new LVT and baseboards.
Life Pointe Ministries, which provides support to the homeless population in its community, seeks to repair or replace the organization's roof, ceiling and air conditioners, as well ensure its bathrooms are handicap accessible. The organization would also like to upgrade its kitchen space to be able to provide additional meals to those in need.
The Florida Aquarium in Tampa, Florida, is a conservation-based attraction with nearly 1 million annual visitors that seeks a complete renovation to its lobby bathrooms, which have not been improved since the aquarium opened in 1995. Renovations would include accessibility improvements for children to be able to use the restroom without help from an adult.
A charitable organization that offers people with Parkinson’s Disease exercise programs that keep them in shape and help slow the disease’s progression was forced to close during the pandemic. Open again in a new gym space, the organization is seeking assistance to add an outdoor, workout-friendly patio area, so it can continue to provide its programs to those in the community who are dealing with Parkinson’s.
A riverfront amphitheater that is the focal point and meeting place for gatherings, events, ceremonies, and festivals, as well as a source of pride for a close-knit community, wishes to renovate and upgrade the amphitheater with improved covering, light and sound to create a space to support large community gatherings and events. The only facility of its kind in the county, the amphitheater is used by a diverse group of organizers year-round.
A community YMCA seeks assistance in building a community garden that will address area food insecurity needs and serve as a place for seniors to come together to socialize and share their knowledge with the children of the county — a place where anyone who needs fresh vegetables can get them by sharing in the care of the garden.
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.