Grant Recipients
Stories about recipients of the Community Grant program from 2023.
2024 LOZIER COMMUNITY GRANT RECIPIENTS
The Lozier Community Grants benefited over 60 non-profits in the five communities where Lozier operates in 2024. These organizations were chosen by a committee made up of every-day Lozier employees. See their stories below. Check back later for more videos!
Dolly Parton Imagination Library
The Jackson County affiliate for the Dolly Parton Imagination Library is a book gifting program where each month, children from newborn to 5-years-old can receive an age-appropriate book each month.
ADEC
ADEC advocates and serves people with intellectual and development disabilities so that they can make informed choices to meet their dreams, needs and participate in the community.
Central Pennsylvania Clinic
The Clinic started as a medical home for special children and adults with disabilities caused by genetic diseases. Dr. Morton took over that vision and built a new clinic providing local care for everyone in the valley with special considerations for Amish patients.
Loveway Equine Assisted Services
LoveWay Equine Assisted Services first opened in 1973, one of the first of its kind in the country. Today, the group partners with children with special needs from 17 different schools across Elkhart County,
Czech & Slovak Museum
A cultural haven in the middle of Omaha, the Czech and Slovak Education Center and Cultural Museum is preserving its national cultures and heritages.
African Immigrant Family Services
African Immigrant Family Services (AIFS) is dedicated to enhancing the quality of life and fostering the social and economic integration of African immigrants and refugees
The Heartland Organization of Rocketry
Through science and craftsmanship, rocket fuel and fun, one Omaha operation’s mission to take what looks like a simple hobby and stress it as a tool of education is continuing in some really impressive ways.
NCS Hope Foundation
Providing assistance to patients fighting cancer, the Nebraska Cancer Specialists (NCS) Hope Foundation is a lifeline for individuals and families choosing between paying for medication or their mortgage.
The Big Garden
Big Garden’s three-acre plot in North Omaha has had a hand in planting more than 300 community gardens since its founding in 2005. The green thumb nonprofit started with the goal of creating 12 community gardens in Omaha’s areas where low-income families suffer from food insecurity.
“Lozier has been part of helping us be able to expand the number of people that we see every year & help more people take care of themselves & their families & have an overall sense of well-being.”
Missy Schrok, Executive Director – Center for Healing and Hope
LUMINA Center
Lewistown United Ministries in Neighborhood Action (LUMINA) is a community center which offers the light of faith, hope and love to the children, youth and families of Mifflin County.
Spay and Neuter of Jackson County
Spay and Neuter of Jackson County started in 2017 with a mission to reduce the overpopulation of cats and dogs in the area.
Through its program, people without the financial means can apply for spaying or neutering vouchers for their pets.
Center for Healing & Hope
Serving the uninsured in the community, the
Center for Healing and Hope is a beacon for
compassionate care. The operation supports
seeking primary and preventative care, cancer
screenings, small procedures and more.
Bean Soup Fair
The Lozier Community Grant helped the fair make much needed repairs to the cookhouse where the bean soup is prepared. The project also brought in students from the local technical school who got experience in masonry techniques.
Shelter Service
Shelter Service has been operating for more than 35 years in Lewistown, Pennsylvania. Offering beds for up to 20 men and 20 women, Shelter Service’s goals aim to reduce homelessness, enhance and improve independence and life skills, and has thrift stores providing clothing to everyone and volunteer work experience.
Middlebury Food Pantry
The Middlebury Food Pantry serves more than 600 community members each month, distributing food every Saturday. Executive Director Pam Bingaman said that the operation has grown significantly over the last three years.
Veterans Memorial Pool
Started with the mission to provide free access to a pool, the Veterans Memorial Pool is the only of its kind in the area. Serving children and families from around Snyder, Mifflin and Juniata counties in central Pennsylvania, it hosts more than 300 visitors per day in the summer months.
Mifflin County Youth Fair
The Youth Fair upgraded its electrical service with the help of the Lozier Community Grants by purchasing and installing a new, higher capacity electrical service and main breaker.
Skyline High School
Lozier’s Community Grant program helped purchase text books for students in the dual enrollment program. Skyline High School students are also enrolled at North East Alabama Community College, receiving college credit and scholarships.
“We want to renovate & fix it up to preserve the old schoolhouse as a piece of history in our area while making it functional & usable.”
Craig Todd, Administrator – Mifflin County Christian Academy
Westfair
For more than 50 years, Westfair has become a cultural center of southwest Iowa, hosting concerts, sporting events and the annual West Pottawattamie County Fair.
Mifflin County Christian Academy
With the help of Lozier’s Community Grant,
Todd hopes to see the community come together to rebuild the historic schoolhouse to make it functional and usable to teach classes and some of its history.
The Set Me Free Project
The Set Me Free Project (SMFP) began in 2015 in response to a lack of human trafficking prevention education in Nebraska. Its mission is to bring prevention education to communities across the country to stop trafficking before it begins
MAC YMCA
To keep toddlers safe in its expansive playground and green space, the Lozier Community Grant will support the MAC Y’s eight-phase playground improvement project.
Merrymakers
Some of people’s most powerful memories are tied to music—good times, great moments and so much more. For the Merrymakers Association, their musical mission has touched the lives of thousands of people across the region.
NAMI Southwest Iowa
Lozier Community Grant funding enables NAMI Southwest Iowa to continue its strides in improving the lives of children and families affected by mental illness and those facing poverty, low-income and more through targeted education and training.
North 24th Street Business
Improvement Distract
A well-kept garden in the middle of North Omaha
is the heart of the North 24th Street Business
Improvement District (BID) Association’s
operations. Launching street clean-ups three
times a year from the city garden, the North
24th St. BID focuses on beautifying the historic
neighborhood and providing a clean space for
residents.
Kids Grove
Lozier’s community grant will support the upkeep for the playground and a few new additions to keep the playground an exciting place for all ages. Kidsgrove hopes to build a learning garden, with sensory plants, herbs and perennials with name tags along with a worm farm exhibit with educational activities.
Summer Seals
A summer program designed to prevent a summer slump, 30 children each year participate in a seven-week summer camp at no cost to the families. A partnership between the Snyder County School systems, Greater Susquehanna University and the Summer Seals, students who need extra support can keep their minds and bodies active until the coming school semester.
“Neighborhood beautification has an exponential effect – it gets people together, you learn about others and meet people within the community”
LaVonya Goodwin,Board President – North 24th Street Business
Improvement District
Jacobs Well
Its third year of receiving a Lozier Community Grant, Jacob’s Well Ministry Food Pantry hopes
to expand its outreach efficiency through a new drive through port cover in Jackson County, Alabama. The new cover will be critical for the nonprofit that distributes food to around 800 people across county every third Saturday
of the month.
Rosalie Community Center
The Lozier Community Grant will support the community center’s continued operations. Once a month, the group hosts a breakfast for all to come and gather once a month.
McClure Community Library
Lozier’s Community Grant will support the repair
of the library’s bathroom floor. With a likely crack
in the cement pad, spring water is suspected to be flooding the bathroom intermittently.
Jimtown Unified Sports
Lozier’s Community Grant helped Jimtown Unified Sports to purchase new equipment and kits for the inaugural flag football season. It will also help promote Jimtown’s new Unified Sports program, inviting anyone to join the team and compete.