Over the past 16 years, Friends of Tietze Park Foundation has championed the enhancement and preservation of Tietz Park. Through Lowe's Hometowns, the park will be upgraded with new garden beds, borders, pathways, a new picnic table slab, new plants, irrigation, amended soil and signage; all to create a harmonious and visually appealing space that brings joy to this community.
The Salvation Army of Amarillo Harrington Hope Center is a shelter that provides a warm bed, meal and shower as well as case management and community resources. As laundry facilities keep the shelter up and running, this project will upgrade laundry appliances in the men’s, women’s and family shelter areas.
The Rapoport Academy Public School’s Pathways in Technology Early College High School (P-TECH) program will complete a fabrication lab, create an outdoor classroom with raised flower beds and picnic tables, and renovate the school’s food truck all to create an engaging outdoor learning experience focusing on sustainability and entrepreneurship.
Aid the Silent will make major improvements to better serve deaf and hard-of-hearing children. New sidewalks will ensure students with additional disabilities can access the building. In the wake of plumbing issues, a new patio and playground are needed for teens working with mentors and parents in between their children’s audiology appointments. A stage will allow for family movie nights and community events that currently host over 100 families with hearing loss every single month.
The African American Museum has a been a beacon of light for sharing and preserving the African American experience in the DFW Metroplex. The new courtyard will have diverse plantings around the edges and the interior of the courtyard will become an intimate space appropriate for a variety of events and educational programming. The courtyard will receive a planting and irrigation upgrade.
The Austin Street Center provides safe shelter and meets the basic needs of the most vulnerable homeless. This project would include addressing the critical needs of an aging facility, including new flooring, insulation and roofing for its Administration Building and painting for the Sisterhood Program's Facility.
The Girl Scouts of Northeast Texas want to update and upgrade their current outdoor space into a safe place for girls to participate in Girl Scout programming, be together and have fun. Investments would include new fencing and outdoor equipment (e.g., grills, picnic tables), updating the stage, painting the exterior and creating a garden that will provide girls with hands-on experience.
The Ronald McDonald House seeks to repair, improve and renovate the exterior of the Sid Katz House, which supports families facing the struggle of a child battling a terminal illness or life-threatening injury. The House ensures families can be close to their ill child without having to choose between being separated or incurring hotel and other expenses they can’t afford. This project would renovate and repair three outdoor spaces and an exterior entrance to the home.
The Salvation Army operates a program called Passage that provides supervised independent living and case management to young people aged 18-24 years who have aged out of the state foster care system. The Passage Program serves as a bridge between the exit of the foster care system and that journey to self-sufficiency. The goal of this project is to renovate four smaller existing structures to create a single on-site haven to house and manage the Passage Program.
The Salvation Army of El Paso wants to renovate its shelter facilities including the lobby, five restrooms, three laundry spaces, and two hallways. Each portion of the project will require replacing sinks/vanities, toilets and shower units. The laundry rooms require repaired and updated electrical and lighting, and the project will include installing plumbing for two washers and dryers, installing four additional washers/dryers, new tiles and baseboards and undertaking significant interior painting.