As a part of the 100 Hometowns, an initiative to celebrate Lowe’s centennial, the City of Pine Bluff’s Opportunity House (Formerly First Ward School) was recently selected as one of the 100 impact projects. The City of Pine Bluff will host a volunteer event on Tuesday, September 7 with Lowe’s Red Vest associates to work on the project, which will turn an unused school building into a men’s only transitional housing center. The event is scheduled to take place from 8 am until noon.
Currently, Pine Bluff does not have a shelter in place to support the 14% of its male population living homeless. Volunteers, including individuals from Lowe’s, will come together to clean up the building to prepare for renovations and landscaping.
The City of Pine Bluff was the only municipality within the state of Arkansas to be awarded this prestigious grant out of over 2,200 qualified submissions to 100 Hometowns. The final projects span 36 states and will help thousands of people from coast to coast, each of them with a unique story to tell.
