The Lake City Fire Department is dedicated to providing excellent emergency services, community education, and fire prevention to those we serve. The Lowe’s Community Impact Grant will install new flooring throughout the facility and renovate three existing showers. These improvements will boost department morale and demonstrate to its firefighters that their community values and supports them as much as they care for the people they protect.
Joshua's Heart Foundation is a youth-led nonprofit that has fought food insecurity across Miami-Dade County for over 20 years, distributing more than 9 million pounds of food to over 750,000 individuals while developing the next generation of community leaders. With the Lowe's Community Impact Grant, its North Miami Beach pantry will expand its cold storage capacity, allow us to accept and distribute more nutritious donations to the thousands of food-insecure families who rely on the organization’s pantry.
Harbor House of Central Florida serves domestic violence survivors in Orange County through community offices and its emergency shelter, which provides safe housing to more than 850 survivors each year, including women, men, children, and pets. With the Lowe’s Community Impact Grant, Harbor House will enhance its nine-acre shelter campus with improvements to its vegetable garden, butterfly garden, and meditation path. These upgrades create peaceful spaces where survivors can heal, grow, and thrive.
Habitat for Humanity of Hillsborough County serves the largest county in Tampa Bay, building and preserving decent shelter for vulnerable families for 39 years. With the Lowe’s Community Impact Grant, the organization will make key capital improvements that create a strong vibrant community in Windhorst Commons, a new affordable homeownership development. Improving sidewalks and adding a community park, a gazebo and green spaces will boost health and safety for neighborhood families as well as resilience to extreme weather.
United Against Poverty-Orlando/UP Orlando serves families and individuals by providing crisis care, case management, transformative education, and personal empowerment, food and household subsidy, employment training and placement, and active referrals to other collaborative social service providers. With Lowes Hometowns funding, the organization will renovate its public restrooms - used by thousands each year - from old, ugly and worn out (and just plain "yucky!"), to new, attractive and accessible!
The New Mom and Baby Project will convert two underused rooms at Metropolitan Ministries' MiraclePlace, one of the lead emergency shelters in Tampa Bay, into nurseries for new and expecting mothers. These nurseries will provide a safe and comfortable environment for breastfeeding and family bonding, with support from Lowe’s volunteers to design and furnish the spaces. This project is essential to alleviate stress for mothers, support postpartum health, foster a sense of community, and support families on their journey to self-sufficiency.
Manatee County Habitat for Humanity (MCHFH) builds homes, communities, and hope for low-income families. MCHFH will repair homes damaged by three hurricanes in 2024 and strengthen them against future storms. The community will benefit because these homeowners will be safer in their homes during future storms and will be less likely to need financial assistance, to be rescued by community rescue squads or to stay in County-maintained hurricane shelters.
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.
Following the 2016 Pulse Nightclub tragedy, The LGBT+ Center Orlando, Inc. became the hub for not only the LGBTQ community, but for everyone. The organization offers free services to youth and seniors, including health screenings, mental health counseling and more. The Lowe's Hometowns project includes updates to the building including a ramp, ADA doors, roof repair, carpet, exterior lighting, structural repairs, interior and exterior paint and new cubicles.
Rebuilding Together Miami provides community repairs for low-income families, community spaces and small businesses. The Lowe's Hometowns project will complete essential work for a neighborhood child care center that provides affordable care for low-income families. Repairs include renovating drinking fountains, kitchen cabinets, painting, repaired floors, electrical and repairing bathrooms.