A community seeks assistance in creating and revitalizing a green space in the heart of a city so it can reopen and invite the community back into a comfortable space where members can enjoy a vast array of events that will create lasting memories. It's part of a strategic plan to rejuvenate the downtown district making it a destination for residents and visitors alike.
A volunteer fire department seeks to make improvements to its fire hall which serves double duty housing firefighting equipment and functioning as a community hall. Upgrades focus on ensuring the building can serve as an emergency shelter if and when needed and allow the space to continue to be a gathering place for community and club events.
A retreat center that serves wounded warriors/veterans experiencing PTSD, their families, and caregivers as they reintegrate into society is seeking assistance in modifying structures on its property to make them accessible for individuals with mobility disabilities so it can better serve the area’s veterans. Facility repairs and updates are also needed to better serve the veteran retreat guests.
A community wishes to update its oldest play area with a new inclusive, ADA-accessible play structure including sensory, shade and interactive features as well as updates to the nearby picnic amenities. The improvements will bring the park up to ADA standards and offer a place where children can play together, and community members can enjoy the outdoors and green space.
A theatre and cultural arts center seeks assistance in repairing its stage, so it can become a space truly usable for showcasing performing arts shows and events, making it the only venue of its kind in the community to do so. As a marquee building in the historic downtown, the improvements will further town revitalization efforts and help bring foot traffic back into the main part of town.
A food pantry housed in a former church that has worked within the donated building’s layout constraints seeks assistance in remodeling, refreshing, and organizing the space to make it more functional. The project will help the organization broaden its efforts and offerings and better serve the community through innovative programs such as the self-service pantry.
An organization that helps the homeless, people transitioning from prison and those coming out of addiction by offering shelter, mentoring, job training, accountability and education would like to renovate its kitchen facilities and update its appliances so it can continue to provide its services to those in need, specifically the organization’s ability to regularly and on special occasions serve hot meals.
A housing facility for female veterans that provides transitional housing, career training, mental health counseling, life skills classes and education programs that put homeless service women back on the path to independence and self-sufficiency seeks assistance in completing construction that will allow the organization to open its doors. Once it does, the facility will be able to provide temporary housing for up to 14 homeless female veterans at a time.
A nonprofit organization aimed at providing minority youth leadership development, mentoring, and academic support through mental health initiatives and youth entrepreneurship training seeks to renovate a house to serve as its headquarters. The house will create a hub for the organization to have a needed safe space for program participants to meet for planned and structured activities, community service initiatives and other endeavors. Members of the youth organization plan to pitch in to do the renovation work.
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.