The Salvation Army’s mission is to meet human needs without discrimination by providing essential services, including food assistance, to individuals and families facing hardship. With the Lowes Hometown grant funds, the Black Creek, Wisconsin Food Pantry will undergo interior renovations, including repairing walls, replacing flooring, and upgrading windows to create a safer, more efficient, and welcoming space.
The Beacon Center exists to remove barriers from our neighbors so that they can live a better life. With the Lowe’s Hometowns grant, the Center will transform its facilities by creating a more welcoming clinic with new furniture, upgraded cabinets, and improved plumbing; expanding food pantry capacity with new shelving, a walk-in freezer, and safer flooring; sealing the roof and installing new flooring to protect and enhance key community spaces; and streamlining services with a new digital check-in kiosk.
Mid Coast Hunger Prevention Program, the largest food access agency in a six-county region of Maine, has empowered low-income populations with dignified access to food for over 41 years. With the Lowe’s Hometowns grant, MCHPP's main food pantry and soup kitchen will add a welcoming, ADA-compliant front entrance, refurbished restrooms, freshly painted floors and walls, a weather-resilient entry awning, a replacement deli case, painted parking spaces, and replacement heating/cooling pumps to reduce noise and regulate temperature.
Feeding South Florida (FSF) will renovate and expand the food storage and sort room at its main distribution center, doubling its capacity to rescue and distribute nutritious food. This critical upgrade will increase the number of people served through FSF’s Client Choice Pantry from 150,000 to 300,000 and potentially expand distribution across all programs from 1.2 million to 2.4 million individuals. Volunteer engagement is expected to grow from 31,000 to 44,000 annually.
Dedham Food Pantry is the front-line safety net organization for residents struggling to make ends meet. With the Lowe’s Hometowns grant, the Pantry will install a new reception desk, add cold and dry storage, and maximize its limited space to better serve a growing client base. With increased storage capacity, the organization will be able to provide clients with greater access to a wider variety of fresh and nutritious foods, which is especially critical for families with young children.
A food pantry that has seen a significant increase in the number of clients served seeks to become a higher-capacity and more sustainable organization. They need assistance in constructing a permanent outdoor covering for receiving, storing and distributing food. The improvement will offer staff, clients, and food products protection from the elements during curbside pickups and benefit thousands of households that depend on this service.
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 emergency services center that serves more than 26,000 people per year needs renovations. The center provides emergency services to men, women and children facing unmet basic needs and emergency situations as well as affordable housing solutions for the homeless. As a food, clothing, diaper and household items distribution center and mail drop location for the homeless, the improvements will help the center to continue to address the critical needs of the community.
A volunteer-run garden that provides produce to local soup kitchens and food pantries to address food insecurity in the local community is seeking help to build a cold-storage room to prevent produce waste. The cold storage space will ensure the bounties of the garden, and the hard work of volunteers, isn’t lost.