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Kubota Announces Hometown Proud Winners
To empower local communities and strengthen ties with Kubota dealers, the 2025 Hometown Proud program invited non-profits nationwide to apply for funding and equipment, resulting in 1,088 applications in total. After a rigorous review process, 10 grant winners were selected, one in each of Kubota’s 10 operating districts.
Those winning projects are:
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Stones (Euless, Tex.) and its Community Powered Revitalization project is supported by Kubota of Dallas
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Coping Together (Frankfort, Ill.) and its Ranch Therapy Town project is supported by McCullough Equipment Group
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Crawford County Parks Board (Marengo, Ind.) and its Playground & Heart of Our Community project is supported by Jacobi Sales, Inc.
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Fruitdale High School Alumni Organization (Vinegar Bend, Ala.) and its Rebuilding Ag Building and Greenhouse project is supported by Circle C Tractor
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Hands and Hearts for Horses (Thomasville, Ga.) and its Arena Maintenance Equipment project is supported by Linder Turf & Tractor
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I Want to Mow Your Lawn, Inc., (Wayne, N.J.) and its Lawn Care for Our Heroes & Neighbors project is supported by Marshall Machinery
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Lynchburg Grows (Lynchburg, Va.) and its Urban Farm & Greenhouse Restoration project is supported by Kubota of Lynchburg
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Northern Colorado Foodshed Project (Fort Collins, Colo.) and its New Farm Business Accelerator project is supported by Wickham Tractor Co.
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Northland Arboretum (Brainerd, Minn.) and its Northland Arboretum Bike Park project is supported by Quality Equipment
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University of Hawai’i Foundation (Honolulu, Hawaii) and its GoFarm Hawai’i Cultivating Future Farmers project is supported by Bacon Universal
In addition to the grant program, Kubota invited consumers nationwide to participate in the 2025 Hometown Proud Win & Give Sweepstakes, which closed on July 31, 2025. This year’s sweepstakes winner received a BX sub-compact tractor and was able to nominate a non-profit in their hometown to receive a $1,000 mini-grant. The sweepstakes winner was Ken W. from Roberts, Wis., and the local nonprofit that received the mini-grant was Coco’s Heart Dog Rescue.
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