TEAM DEPOT

Giving back is a fundamental value of The Home Depot and a passion for its associates. Through The Home Depot Foundation and its ongoing partnerships with nonprofit organizations, The Home Depot donates millions of hours, tools and supplies each year to community service projects.

Through Team Depot, The Home Depot’s associate-led volunteer program, associates work side-by-side to create life-long, meaningful relationships between the Company, our neighbors and our associates. Formalized in 1992, Team Depot programs bring together volunteerism, do-it-yourself expertise, product donations and monetary grants as a way to support the communities where the associates live and work.

Every The Home Depot retail store in the U.S., Canada and Mexico has a Team Depot program and Team Depot volunteers. Projects are led by Team Depot Captains (trained volunteer leaders) who also serve as our ambassadors to the community.

Team Depot is recognized nationally as having developed and implemented best practices for corporate volunteer programming.

For more information about Team Depot in your neighborhood and how they can support your nonprofit organization, please contact your local The Home Depot store manager or Team Depot Captain.

Our Framing Hope product donation program is an integral part of how The Home Depot makes a difference in our communities and environment. Products donated through the program are kept out of landfills and used to rebuild nearby neighborhoods and improve the lives of fellow citizens. We partner with Gifts In Kind International (GIKI) to connect each U.S. store with at least one local nonprofit organization to pick up donations. The charities then put these products to use improving the lives of our youth, the sick and the needy.
		As a founding partner of KaBOOM!, The Home Depot provides financial support, materials and numerous volunteers for play space projects across North America as part of its ongoing commitment to give back to the communities its stores serve.
At the end of 2007, The Home Depot and KaBOOM! completed an unprecedented community initiative to create and refurbish 1,000 play spaces in 1,000 days throughout North America. During the three year program, The Home Depot invested $25 million and nearly 1 million volunteer hours in support of the initiative.
Racing to Play is a national partnership between The Home Depot, Joe Gibbs Racing and KaBOOM!.  In just three years, Racing to Play has built 30 racing-themed playgrounds in NASCAR communities across the country and impacted the lives of more than 11,000 children.
		The Home Depot NFL® Neighborhood MVP is a national program that recognizes NFL players who are making a positive impact in their local communities through charitable programs and contributions.  In its first year, the program recognized 17 players, one for each week of the regular season, with a football field refurbishment or a playground build in their local market and a donation to the charity of their choice.
The Home Depot partnered with the Points of Light & Hands On Network’s growing network of volunteer mobilization organizations more than a decade ago and provided funding to help create Hands On Atlanta. Our partnership escalated in 2004 when Hands On helped execute the Company’s 25th anniversary celebration with a Week of Service. In 2005, this success led to a Corporate Month of Service and the launch of the Corporate Service Council, an alliance of CEOs and civic leaders committed to leveraging the collective power of service.  We continued our work with Points of Light & Hands On Network and successfully completed Corporate Month of Service programs again in 2006 and 2007. Over the past few years, we have grown our partnership with Points of Light & Hands On Network, achieving new thresholds of success that are resulting in real change in communities, neighborhoods and individual lives around the country. In the true spirit of partnership, we have pushed each other to leverage the resources and unique competencies that we each bring to the relationship.
		Hands On Schools will revolutionize how change is brought about in more than 100 schools across the country by engaging the local community, leveraging corporate resources, and mobilizing teams of students, parents and other volunteers. Founded by a $3 million challenge grant from The Home Depot, this unique collective investment fosters positive community growth through school revitalization and community empowerment.
The Home Depot Foundation partnered with The National Arbor Day Foundation to increase awareness and demonstrate the benefits of community trees.  Since 2006, the partnership has planted more than 2,000 large trees each 4-8 feet tall in 20 metropolitan cities across the country (100 trees per city), including Atlanta, Chicago, Detroit, Miami, Portland and San Antonio.
		Developed in partnership with the National Arbor Day Foundation, Trees For Success will bring together The National Arbor Day Foundation, city officials, urban foresters, Team Depot volunteers and community groups to create a fun-filled, educational experience for area school children. Students in the 10 selected cities will help plant the trees, giving them an opportunity to take an active role in improving their own communities and to interact with the natural world.
When The Home Depot associate-volunteers offer their expertise and service to nonprofit organizations, The Home Depot Foundation provides Team Depot Dollars to nonprofits of their choice to recognize and reward their service.

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