Building Healthy Communities

At The Home Depot Foundation, we make grants every week, but this week, the amounts have really added up.  In fact, today we are mailing out grants that total over $750,000.  None of the grants is individually enormous, but combined, they demonstrate how we work throughout the country to support local communities to do the work they need to do given their unique situation.

I’m not going to list them all, but here are some highlights:

• Atlanta Land Trust Collaborative: $125,000 to support the development homes that will always be affordable for families of lower income
• Clean Air Campaign: $25,000 to support carpooling initiatives that have saved commuters almost $800,000 in 2009
• Global Green USA: $15,000 to provide technical assistance to nonprofit developers working to make homes more efficient and healthier
• Park Pride: $25,000 to sponsor a conference about the role of parks and green infrastructure in the new economy
• FLASH: $50,000 in support of their work to strengthen homes and safeguard families from the impacts of disasters

The list goes on, but hopefully you get a feel for what we are doing.  And while at first blush this may seem like a somewhat random list of organizations and efforts, I hope that you’ll take a second look and see that they are all aimed at creating healthier, more livable and more affordable communities.   We like to think that we are very smart and strategic in what we do as a Foundation, but I’ve got to admit that at bottom we are just trying to create neighborhoods where anyone would want to live and houses that any family would be proud to call home.

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