The Salvation Army of Middletown is a community-based nonprofit that provides essential services including food assistance, emergency support, and shelter for individuals and families experiencing hardship. With the Lowe’s Community Impact Grant, the organization will renovate an existing restroom to create a unisex, ADA-compliant bathroom with a fully functioning shower, including plumbing upgrades, ventilation, and safety improvements.

The Kindness Closet is a nonprofit hygiene bank dedicated to ensuring all individuals have access to essential hygiene products so they can live with dignity, health, and confidence. With the Lowe’s Community Impact Grant, the organization will expand and renovate its warehouse—more than doubling its size. These improvements will increase distribution capacity, engage more volunteers, and allow The Kindness Closet to serve more families while strengthening access to essential hygiene products across the community.

The Hiding Place exists to create safe, trauma-informed spaces for survivors of domestic violence and their children through support, resources, and community connection. With the Lowe’s Community Impact Grant, the center will install a new HVAC system, upgrade electrical and lighting, replace flooring, renovate two bathrooms to include showers, and develop outdoor healing spaces with gardens and greenhouse structures.

South City CDC is a nonprofit organization dedicated to expanding access to quality affordable housing and revitalizing underserved communities in Memphis. Through Lowe’s Community Impact Grant, the organization will complete site preparation, exterior construction improvements, and landscaping across six residential parcels, including three single-family homes and three duplex units at Gerard Place.

Taste Project’s mission is to feed, educate, and serve our community through a pay-what-you-can community cafe that restores dignity and creates opportunities for people experiencing food insecurity. Lowe’s Community Impact Grant funding will support critical renovations at Taste Community Restaurant in Fort Worth. These improvements will provide a safer, more welcoming, and more dignified space where neighbors can share meals, apprentices can build skills, and the community can gather around fresh food and connection.

Founded in the aftermath of Hurricane Helene, Swannanoa Communities Together strengthens community and facilitates long-term recovery by providing free, accessible space and essential resources for neighbors to connect, learn, and heal. SCT is expanding a trusted disaster recovery hub into a vibrant community center and public garden, providing food and resource access, classrooms, and office space for providers. The Lowe’s Community Impact Grant will create a permanent, accessible space that strengthens long-term recovery by enabling neighbors to build community connections.

The Stroud Region Open Space and Recreation Commission provides essential park and recreation services to 30,000 residents across three municipalities, fostering community health and environmental stewardship. With Lowe’s Community Impact Grant, the organization will revitalize its community center with new flooring, a repaired gymnasium, refreshed kitchenette/art room, update entrances and restrooms.

St. Francis de Sales High School is a community-centered high school on Chicago’s Southeast Side committed to empowering students to achieve academic excellence while addressing the barriers of poverty through access to food, healthcare, financial support, and education. With the Lowe’s Community Impact Grant, the school will renovate and enhance its community space including its community closet, student-run food pantry, and upgrading key areas to create a more functional, welcoming environment.

The food pantry at St. John’s Baptist Church strengthens families and supports neighborhood well-being by providing food access, youth engagement, education programs, and community-centered opportunities for connection and economic empowerment. With the Lowe’s Community Impact Grant, the organization will upgrade restrooms, improve pantry storage and distribution space, refresh gathering areas used for community programming, and prepare the site for a community garden partnership with a nearby pre-K.

SPARK 618—Skills Pathways Accessibility Resilience Knowledge—is a Carbondale-based nonprofit connecting Southern Illinois residents with workforce training, clean energy career pathways, and community partnerships that help people build stable futures. With the Lowe’s Community Impact Grant, SPARK 618 will renovate approximately 1,000 square feet at the Eurma C. Hayes Community Center into the SPARK 618 Skilled Trades Learning Lab.