Community Cares Grant Recipients

Click the Link Below to View the 2024 Celebration! 

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

LifePoint Church Livestream of 2024 Community Cares Celebration

2026 Community Cares Grant Awards

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American Red Cross – direct needs for disaster victims

$1,000
Bays Cares Best Foot Forward Program –   purchase shoes for kids

$2,000

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

$9,500

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

$6,300

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

$12,000
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

$13,500

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

$2,000

Laclede County Drug Council – drug awareness programs in Lebanon, Conway, and Stoutland Schools.

$500

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

$3,000

Laclede Literacy Council – purchase tutoring materials

$1,200

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

$6,000

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

$2,000

Live 2 Give Hope : Fostering Hope Closet – support facility utilities, trash service, lawn care, snow removal, and storage unit expenses

$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.

$1,000

Project 360 Youth Services – for utilities for the facility

$2,500

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

$3,500

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

$9,000

Sleep In Heavenly Peace – to provide 34 fully furnished twin beds for bedless children in Laclede County

Stoutland Senior Center – food for meal program

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

The Salvation Army – purchase bulk non-perishable pantry staples and fresh foods

Total Grants Awarded to Local Nonprofits = $150,000.00

$5,000    

$5,000  

$14,000

$7,000