Pathways empowers women and children out of homelessness through hospitality, housing, and hope through four programs: two overnight shelters, a Day Center, and an Early Learning Center. The renovations will add an infant classroom to serve more children ages 8 weeks to 6 years in our Early Learning Center that exclusively serves children experiencing homelessness. The program helps keep individuals in the workforce, reduces the number of people experiencing homelessness, and prepares children for education during the most crucial years.

Pasadena Humane is dedicated to promoting compassion and care for all animals through sheltering, education, and community outreach. With support from Lowe’s Hometowns, the organization will complete a seismic retrofit of its 1930s Wildlife Department building. This critical improvement will ensure the safety of staff, volunteers, and over 1,300 injured and orphaned wild animals served each year, strengthening the region’s capacity for wildlife rescue and rehabilitation.

Our Place supports people with intellectual and developmental disabilities to live meaningful, productive, socially connected lives in their home community. With the Lowe’s Hometowns grant, Our Place will renovate a recently purchased old church building to make the front door and bathrooms accessible, add key fob security access to the entrance doors, renovate an art room for participants, resurface the front walkway and back stairwell for safety. This project will ensure that Our Place is safe and accessible for our participants with disabilities.

Northern Virginia Family Service (NVFS) empowers individuals and families to achieve stability and self-sufficiency through housing, workforce development, and essential support services. With support from Lowe’s Hometowns, NVFS will renovate two community bathrooms at the SERVE Family Shelter, enhancing safety, accessibility, and hygiene for families experiencing homelessness. These improvements will create a dignified, trauma-informed environment that fosters stability and wellbeing for hundreds of individuals each year as they work toward permanent housing.

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.

New Life Center is one of the largest standalone domestic violence shelters in Arizona and has been a place of hope and refuge for families and individuals for more than 30 years. The Lowe’s Hometowns grant will help renovate eight of the organization's emergency shelter casitas, including installing new bathroom fixtures, durable flooring, and energy efficient lighting. These improvements will ensure that survivors of domestic violence have a welcoming and calming environment in which to stabilize, heal, and transition into the next phase of their lives.

Moore Youth & Family Services supports wellness for youth and families. With the Lowe’s Hometowns grant, the agency will revitalize the facility with new paint, landscaping, and a new reception area that makes it feel inviting and safe for youth and families. These improvements will expand the footprint of the agency and enhance the satisfaction of those receiving services.

Milestone Recovery provides compassionate, life-saving care to individuals battling homelessness, substance use disorders, and mental health challenges. With the Lowe’s Hometowns grant, Milestone will create a sanctuary of healing through a 12' x 24' gazebo, a peaceful reflection area with gardens, and a hardscaped pathway illuminated to offer safety and accessibility. This outdoor space will provide individuals in early recovery a place to find calm, support, and hope — a critical step toward rebuilding their lives with dignity and resilience.

Mid Coast Hunger Prevention Program, the largest food access agency in a six-county region of Maine, has empowered low-income populations with dignified access to food for over 41 years. With the Lowe’s Hometowns grant, MCHPP's main food pantry and soup kitchen will add a welcoming, ADA-compliant front entrance, refurbished restrooms, freshly painted floors and walls, a weather-resilient entry awning, a replacement deli case, painted parking spaces, and replacement heating/cooling pumps to reduce noise and regulate temperature.

The New Mom and Baby Project will convert two underused rooms at Metropolitan Ministries' MiraclePlace, one of the lead emergency shelters in Tampa Bay, into nurseries for new and expecting mothers. These nurseries will provide a safe and comfortable environment for breastfeeding and family bonding, with support from Lowe’s volunteers to design and furnish the spaces. This project is essential to alleviate stress for mothers, support postpartum health, foster a sense of community, and support families on their journey to self-sufficiency.