Schools

Lowe's Grant to Help With Life Skills

Company donates $67,000 to help students with multiple disabilities.

Lowe’s Charitable and Educational Foundation has awarded a $67,800 Lowe’s Toolbox for Education grant to East Brunswick Public Schools. With the funding, three classrooms, one each at East Brunswick High School, Churchill Junior High School and Hammarskjold Middle School, will be transformed into a home-like environment to teach life skills to students with multiple disabilities.

The Lowe’s Life Skills Learning Labs, made possible with this funding, will allow the district to house a long-term, coordinated program of increasing complexity to help students master the skills necessary to become independent.

“This grant award will help us to better serve our most vulnerable students. We are so very grateful to Lowe’s for this generous funding that will allow us to educate students with significant disabilities within the district alongside their peers and neighbors in their own community,” said Jo Ann Magistro, superintendent of the East Brunswick Public Schools. “I also applaud Sharon Weber-Oleszkiewicz, Director of Special Education and Supervisors, Dr. Susan Meklune and Ellen Murphy for working with Lowe’s to make this possible.”

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“Lowe’s is committed to recognizing and supporting efforts that enrich the lives of our neighbors and customers,” said Marshall Croom, chairman of Lowe’s Charitable and Educational Foundation. “By supporting organizations like East Brunswick Public Schools, we believe we are contributing to a cause that’s important to our customers and employees and helping build a stronger foundation for the children who will be tomorrow’s employees, homeowners and community leaders.”

Lowe’s Toolbox for Education provides the financial tools to help improve schools throughout the United States. Lowe’s signature education grant program has donated $26 million to more than 5,900 K-12 public schools since 2005, benefitting more than 3.3 million schoolchildren.

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Since its inception in 1957, Lowe’s Charitable and Educational Foundation has helped communities nationwide through employee volunteerism and financial contributions. In 2010, Lowe’s and Lowe’s Charitable and Educational Foundation together contributed more than $30 million to support community and education projects in the United States, Canada and Mexico.

 

 


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