The New Paltz Youth Program offers year-round educational, recreational and social opportunities for New Paltz Middle School and High School students. Their 100-year-old building will receive new flooring, a new roof, a shed and gazebo with the Lowe’s Hometowns grant.
Glow Up Girls Inc. provides both in-school and after-school programming for girls focused on the physical, emotional, and mental health skills needed to become strong, confident leaders in their communities. With the Lowe’s Hometowns grant, the “glow up” to this space would include replacing windows, doors, flooring, baseboards, remodeling the bathroom and a refreshed exterior.
The American Cancer Society is home away from home to many patients. Connecting the building’s residing guests closely with NYC’s “naturalistic” surroundings is key to healing and well-being. The terrace project includes new planters, soil, proper drainage, plantings, and a newly installed Living Wall utilizing the existing POD system along with three seating zones for patients to utilize and feel more at home.
The Black Rock Riverside Alliance (BRRAlliance) is committed to the overall betterment of the Black Rock, Riverside, Grant-Amherst, and West Hertel communities of Buffalo, New York. For this project, they would like to create a performance space that would be local, open and free to the public, offering an underserved community the opportunity to enjoy no-cost entertainment in a beautiful, healthy, outdoor environment.
Cazenovia Recovery is a residential substance use center which wants to update communal living spaces in both the upstairs and downstairs apartments including kitchens, bathrooms, living and dining rooms.
Housing Plus Solutions seeks to create an ADA-compliant community space. The project would include replacing an outdoor stairway with a handicap-accessible ramp, replacing windows, enhancing the landscape, adding plants to obscure a damaged metal fence bordering the property, providing shade, building a community garden and creating bicycle and scooter parking.
The Rochester Museum and Science Center would like to build a community-designed greenspace to support activities like bee hive placement, outdoor classroom placement and construction, greenhouse building, garden bed building followed by seedling planting and possibly orchard placement.
A former school in the midst of being converted to a community center looks to repair its gym and stage, which have been destroyed by water damage. The center aims to provide a vibrant place for community members to engage in a myriad of activities and spend time with their friends and neighbors.
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.