FRIDAY: Lowe's and Habitat for Humanity Las Vegas Build Home At Lowe's of N. Las Vegas

LAS VEGAS - March 25, 2014 - PRLog -- Habitat for Humanity Las Vegas and Lowe’s Heroes employee volunteers will team up with community volunteers and Habitat partner families Friday, March 21 to raise the walls of a new Habitat home at Lowe’s of North Las Vegas. By the end of the day, nearly 100 volunteers will have completed a fully framed home in the store parking lot. The event is one of 10 Habitat home builds taking place across the country to celebrate Lowe’s longstanding partnership with Habitat for Humanity and kick off “Hammers for Habitat,” a nationwide volunteer drive to mobilize 100,000 new Habitat volunteers this year in support of Habitat’s goal of serving one million people annually by 2018. Builds are also taking place in Atlanta, Baton Rouge, La., Charlotte, N.C., Denver, Houston, Los Angeles, New York, Seattle and St. Louis.

Lowe’s of North Las Vegas will host activities for the entire family, including Lowe’s Build, Grow Kids clinics and fun painting projects to create housewarming gifts for Habitat partner families. Individuals interested in volunteering for future Habitat builds can sign up at the event or visit Habitat.org/Lowes (http://www.habitat.org/partnerships/corporate-partnership...) to learn more.

Lowe’s and Habitat for Humanity International have teamed up for more than a decade to build homes, communities and hope. Lowe’s recently renewed its commitment to Habitat with a five-year, $23.5 million donation that will bring Lowe’s total contributions to more than $63 million since 2003.

WHEN: Friday, March 21,
8 a.m. -  Construction starts
11:30 a.m. - Remarks by local Lowe’s and Habitat representatives
3 p.m. - Construction ends

WHERE: Lowe’s of N. Las Vegas
2570 E. Craig Road
North Las Vegas, Nev. 89030

OPPORTUNITY: Photo and video coverage of the house framing and wall-raising. Representatives from Lowe’s and Habitat for Humanity Las Vegas will be available to comment.

Meg Delor, Habitat for Humanity Las Vegas executive director

Marisa Munoz, Lowe’s store manager

Lowe’s Heroes employee volunteers

Habitat for Humanity Las Vegas partner family

About Habitat for Humanity Las Vegas
Established in Clark County in 1991, Habitat for Humanity Las Vegas is a not-for-profit organization that builds simple, decent, affordable housing with the help of volunteer labor, donated funds, time and materials. Each home is sold at no profit and with a no-interest mortgage to local working families who otherwise might be forced to live in substandard housing. These families contribute “sweat equity” by helping in the construction of their own homes. For more information, visit www.habitatlasvegas.org, ‘like’ us on Facebook at facebook.com/habitatlasvegas and follow us on Twitter @habitatlasvegas.  Habitat for Humanity Las Vegas has received a 4-Star rating from Charity Navigator, America's largest and most-utilized independent evaluator of charities.

About Lowe’s
Lowe’s supports the communities it serves through programs that focus on K-12 public education and community improvement projects. The company’s signature education grant program, Lowe’s Toolbox for Education^® (http://www.toolboxforeducation.com/),has donated more than $38 million to 8,000 K-12 public schools, benefiting more than 5 million schoolchildren. Lowe’s Heroes (http://responsibility.lowes.com/community/our-programs/lo...) employee volunteers support local community projects and our national nonprofit partners such as Habitat for Humanity (http://responsibility.lowes.com/community/our-partnerships/habitat-for-humanity/), Rebuilding Together (http://responsibility.lowes.com/community/our-partnerships/rebuilding-together/) and the American Red Cross (http://responsibility.lowes.com/community/our-partnerships/american-red-cross/). Since 2007, Lowe’s and the Lowe’s Charitable and Educational Foundation (http://responsibility.lowes.com/community/our-programs/lowes-charitable-and-educational-foundation/) together have contributed nearly $200 million to improve communities in the United States, Canada and Mexico. To learn more, visit Lowes.com/SocialResponsibility (http://www.lowes.com/SocialResponsibility) and LowesInTheCommunity.tumblr.com.