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.

Pathways empowers women and children out of homelessness through hospitality, housing, and hope through four programs: two overnight shelters, a Day Center, and an Early Learning Center. The renovations will add an infant classroom to serve more children ages 8 weeks to 6 years in our Early Learning Center that exclusively serves children experiencing homelessness. The program helps keep individuals in the workforce, reduces the number of people experiencing homelessness, and prepares children for education during the most crucial years.

The Friendship Mission, currently the only operational homeless shelter in Montgomery. Through Lowe's Hometowns, the organization will receive critical repairs and upgrades to the dining hall, kitchen and pantry including new appliances, countertops, ceiling tiles, paint, windows, flooring and more. The repairs will create an even safer, stable shelter for those in need.

Nominated by music superstar and Tuskegee, Ala. native Lionel Richie, Hello Park will become the first public park of its kind available to residents in the community. Located directly across from the campus of Tuskegee University, this undeveloped land will be turned into a beautiful outdoor space for members of the community to gather, to personally connect with nature and to embrace the history of Tuskegee for decades to come.

Junior League of the Shoals seeks to create an outdoor learning center in this space. The project requires landscape and item removal before new landscaping and ground cover can be installed. The project plan includes planting Emerald Arborivate, or a hedge type plant, around the perimeter of the area to provide a sound barrier from the traffic and installing astro turf surfacing. The completed center would include playground equipment, as well.

Helen Keller Public Library needs to remove and replace flooring in the meeting room area of the Public Library.

The Little Brick Church is used throughout the year as a gathering place for community members. It is a historic structure that now requires critical repairs and a roof replacement. The City of Oneonta has few places for people to gather, so without a maintained Little Brick Church, residents will seek opportunities outside the community.

The Salvation Army Birmingham is working to complete the final stage of a facility improvement project to provide critical programs and services for at-risk families, children and senior citizens. Updates include structural and aesthetic repairs and updates, as well as upgrades to enhance security for this center in a high-crime neighborhood by providing new locks and a security system. The center is committed to maintaining a strong presence to provide a safe place for at-risk children and low-income senior citizens in the face of these challenges.

A library seeks assistance in constructing an enclosed structure to join its two buildings to protect patrons, staff and library materials from the heat, cold, and rain, and to provide a safe, secure and accessible pathway as they go from one building to another. This library is the hub of its community, and the renovation will allow staff to devote more time to the development of programs and services and offer valuable resources to residents. 

An AMVETS post in which a former Lowe’s pro is involved, seeks to maintain a historically significant community hall damaged by a hurricane to preserve it for future generations. The repairs and renovations are necessary to make the building usable again as a gathering and events space for individuals and community organizations.