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The Home Depot Foundation Commits up to $500,000 in Response to Recent Winter Storms
Published 02-25-21
Submitted by The Home Depot
In response to the recent winter storms devastating the nation, The Home Depot Foundation announced today that it is committing up to $500,000 to aid with immediate relief efforts and short- and long-term recovery for communities impacted by historic winter storms, Uri and Viola. This incremental commitment is in addition to the Foundation’s annual grants of $3.6 million to disaster relief national nonprofit partners, bringing the current total commitment for 2021 to $4.1 million.
Although the extent of the recovery need is still being determined, this commitment will bolster immediate efforts, including distribution of water and kits containing additional critical supplies. Short-term recovery, including mold remediation and emergency home repairs, will take place as damage is assessed and conditions become secure.
Riverview, FL
Joelle Allen has a job she loves with Lighthouse Gospel Mission, a ministry that partners with Operation Blessing.
“Being able to work at a ministry like this where lives are being changed every day, I cannot tell you what a gift it is.”
But things haven t always been easy. When Joelle first came to the ministry, she was a single mom seeking healing from a life of drug addiction and abuse.
“Everything that I was trying to do fell apart.”
As she turned her life around, she met her future husband, Keith, who was also a single parent. While they dated, he faced his own challenges.
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