Alianza has been providing emergency, confidential shelter to domestic violence victims since 1980. With the Lowe’s Community Impact grant, the agency will renovate the shelter’s communal kitchen with new flooring, storage cabinets, appliances, lighting, paint, and kitchen furniture. These renovations will create a warm and inviting space for residents to gather, socialize, and prepare meals, and will preserve the shelter's useful life.
Founded in 1984, the Lynn Shelter Association believes every person deserves a place to call home and our mission is to provide a safe environment for each individual to define and pursue their goals for independence and self-sufficiency. With the Lowe's Hometowns grant, LSA will replace old, damaged, and unhealthy carpeting on the staircases and in the common areas of the four-story Osmund Building with heavy-duty, durable vinyl tile plank flooring. The building provides affordable housing for approximately 100 formerly homeless individuals and families.
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.
The updated New Franklin Park’s Community Corner will address the deep need for food stability among Dorchester residents and the broader community. This project will renovate the Community Corner to bring it up to compliance and create a welcoming space with more food storage to ensure fewer households in the community suffer from food insecurity.
The Espacio Community Center, run by the North Shore Community Development Coalition, hosts classes and can be rented out by members of the community. Espacio needs an update including interior and outdoor furnishings, a fresh coat of paint, garden beds, and lighting. When complete, Espacio will have a functional and attractive indoor and outdoor facility that is flexible and accessible for all.
St. Francis House is a daytime shelter with permanent supported housing, where the shower and bathroom facilities are deteriorating as they have not been upgraded since their initial installation in 1997. Functionality, efficiency, and accessibility is impaired, presenting safety concerns. Upgrades will transform the space, providing modern, high-quality, accessible facilities for all residents.
South Boston Neighborhood Development Corporation (NDC) is striving to create a public pocket park and community garden on an underutilized vacant lot. This area of South Boston lacks open space and trees, so transforming this lot into an asset will provide an environmental improvement for the neighborhood and gardening access to low-income residents. The project would include cedar garden planters for community gardeners and stone dust paths for ADA accessible access. NDC will enlist volunteers from the community to help with the process to give them a sense of ownership.
Worcester Common Ground works to promote and develop permanent and sustainable improvement in underserved neighborhoods of Central Worcester through affordable housing, community activism and economic development. This project would add a community room for WCG's low-income neighbors of all ages, where they could host a birthday party for their children or have a safe space to go outside of their home. For children, this space will serve as an after-school hangout space or a place where kids can complete their homework or meet for group projects.
A Boys & Girls Club chapter that promotes healthy living and provides programs and events that unite the community wishes to improve its outdoor space so it can be an inclusive, inviting, and supportive environment where everyone is welcome and can thrive. The chapter hopes to re-landscape its weed-filled lawn with an irrigation system and enhance the outdoor area with creative, age-appropriate play and hang zones that encourage exercise, fun and education.