Thomas Dunn Learning Center's mission is "Building a Sustainable Region Through Education." The Lowe’s Community Impact Grant will help build a fully accessible, sustainable outdoor classroom that seats 36 and can be used across multiple seasons, due to its permeable floor. This outdoor classroom will make our community more livable by creating a welcoming space where residents of all ages and mobilities can gather, learn, and connect close to home.
Ritenour School District is committed to empowering every student to achieve their full potential through equitable, high-quality learning experiences, grounded in its dedication to equity, inclusion, and access for all. With support from Lowe’s Community Impact Grant, the district will complete site additions and beautification, including creating a community garden and outdoor gathering space for our students new to the country, early childhood learners, and gifted students.
CASA of South Central Missouri advocates for abused and neglected children by recruiting, training, and supporting volunteers to represent their best interests in court. Grant funds will support renovations to create a dedicated learning and support space, including renovating an unused space into a training center and a welcoming environment for children in crisis. These improvements will strengthen volunteer advocacy, enhance community collaboration, and provide a safe, comforting space for children during some of their most difficult moments.
Veterans Community Project (VCP) is a nonprofit organization dedicated to addressing Veteran homelessness through the provision of transitional housing and wraparound support services. With support from Lowe’s, VCP of Kansas City will replace damaged roofs on tiny homes, reconfigure the Team 49 Brick Garden, and construct a retaining wall to create safe access around the Outreach Building. These improvements will enhance safety, preserve vital community spaces, and ensure Veterans have a stable, dignified environment as they work toward reintegration and independence.
Newhouse, the first domestic violence shelter in Kansas City and the only one in its urban core, provides shelter, food, clothing, and supportive services to survivors of domestic violence. With the Lowe’s Hometowns grant, Newhouse will tackle much-needed upgrades and renovations since they moved into the building in 1999, including kitchen, food service, laundry room, and common area renovations and updates. These projects will help make Newhouse feel more like a home for adults, children, and pets escaping domestic violence.
Promise Community Homes serves adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities. Through Lowe's Hometowns, this life changing facility will be made more accessible by updating pathways, moving and replacing trees, shrubs and signage, updating lighting and installing benches. All these changes will make it easier for those with disabilities to safely get to the community center for activities and connection.
The Salvation Army Springfield MO Family Enrichment Center provides shelter for homeless individuals and families. Through Lowe's Hometowns, the organization's enrichment center will be renovated, including eight family bedrooms and bathrooms. Painting, new light fixtures, fans, sinks, tubs, showers, shower heads, medicine cabinets, toilets, blinds and heating and AC units will all be installed.
The Salvation Army of Carthage is expanding the capacity of their food pantry to meet the growing need of families and individuals facing food insecurity in their community. New appliances, including a commercial grade cooler display case, expanded shelving units, and a display refrigerator, among other updates, will extend the life of the donated food.
The Children’s Haven of Southwest Missouri provides temporary shelter to area children in a safe, secure environment while their parents resolve a family crisis. After ten years of serving more than 100,000 healthy meals and snacks over the years, it’s time for a kitchen refresh. The Lowe’s Hometowns grant will provide a brand-new kitchen as well as resolve plumbing issues and repair a damaged subfloor.
An organization that provides aid to the homeless seeks assistance in revitalizing, improving, and making critical repairs to its network of facilities so it can accommodate those in need and provide essential services for a vulnerable population in fully functioning buildings.