5th Squad is a Veteran-led nonprofit dedicated to “Veterans Helping Veterans” by providing immediate assistance, peer support, and community-based programs that ensure no Veteran stands alone. With the Lowe’s Community Impact Grant, the organization will renovate a larger facility by constructing dedicated spaces for Back to the Barracks (peer support), Veteran Disability Claims Assistance (private offices), and Hearts Behind the Barracks (family support).

The Social Club provides space for individuals who have been diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder and their families to connect. Through Lowe's Hometowns, upgrades will make The Social Club more accessible with new push-button doors, wheelchair accessible security gate, remodeled restroom and raised garden beds for hands on projects and beautification. All of the updates will help members gather for the much-needed social time and community connection.

The Aberdeen Loaves and Fishes Food Pantry has a project with multiple critical repairs and improvements, including a parking lot revamp to improve accessibility, fresh paint on the exterior of the building, replacement gutter system, new pallet fence, addition of cyclone fence around secured back area, replaced glass entry door, renovated Client Intake Area and Office Area, the addition of metal sheets to the back warehouse area and additional lighting.

This Salvation Army Boys & Girls Club has a project that would entail mulching its playground area, adding new picnic tables and a new slide to replace a damaged one, as well as replacing a missing section of its fence to enclose the entire playground.

A deteriorated town park is in need of renovations, upscaling, and improvements, as it has been neglected since damage sustained during Hurricane Katrina. A dedicated group of volunteers are seeking to renovate basketball courts and raise funds to install a splash pad, sidewalks, and parking, to make the space a friendly and useful one for people of all ages within the community.