Community Cares Grant Recipients

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(Celebration begins at the 21:10 minute mark of the video.)

LifePoint Church Livestream of 2024 Community Cares Celebration

2025 Community Cares Grant Awards

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American Red Cross – direct needs for disaster victims

$4,500
Bays Cares Best Foot Forward Program –   purchase shoes for kids

$2,500

Conway Senior Center – purchase food for senior meals

$5,000

COPE – to help with rental deposits and moving expenses for clients leaving the shelter and transitioning into their own apartments

$8,000

Crosslines Ministry – help families pay utility bills and rent when they have shutoff or eviction notices

$10,000

Elevate Lebanon, Inc. – help with paying the organization’s operating costs such as building rent, electricity, phone, internet expenses.

$6,000

Free Store Ministry – help with insurance and trash removal at facility

$12,000

Friends of the Library – support summer reading and outreach programs

$1,000

Hillcrest Education Center – purchase safety supplies, tools, etc.

$2,500

Hughes Senior Center – food for meal program 

$9,000

Kiwanis Club of Lebanon – clothing for children in need

$2,500

L-LIFE Food Pantry – support facility rent and utilities

$13,000

Laclede County Diaper Bank – to help purchase supplemental diapers, pullups, and underwear for clients in need

$2,000

Laclede County Treatment Court – provide treatment services, transportation, and housing needs for participants 

$3,500

Laclede Literacy Council – purchase tutoring materials

$2,500

Lane Change, Inc. – cover the cost of counseling for clients in need

$7,000

Lebanon R-3 Social Services – support student needs such as clothing, shoes, medical/dental visits, medicine, etc.

$3,000

Live 2 Give Hope : Fostering Hope Closet – support monthly respite programs for foster, kinship, guardianship, and adoptive families.

$8,000

New Life Project – for operational expenses such as transportation, utilities, groceries, insurance, etc.

$7,000

OATS Transit – cover the cost of fuel for one bus operating daily in Lebanon.

$4,500

Project 360 Youth Services – for utilities and liability insurance for the facility

$6,500

Rotary Club of Lebanon – to purchase warm winter coats for school aged disadvantaged children in Laclede County

$2,500

Share the Fair – cover the cost of processing donated meat for area food pantries

$3,190

Shepherd’s Pack Program – provide food for the weekend for students in Lebanon and Joel E. Barber school districts.

$9,000

Stoutland Senior Center – food for meal program

The Market at LifePoint – purchase food and hygiene products from Ozarks Food Harvest for those in need.

Total Grants Awarded to Local Nonprofits = $150,000.00

$4,000

$12,000