Home Depot to Donate $1 Million to Improve HBCU Campuses
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The Home Depot announced that it will contribute $1 million in grants to support campus improvements at Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs).
The grants will be distributed through its annual
Retool Your School program, for which voting is now open. The program, which was established back in 2009, has emphasized HBCUs’ vital role in the American higher education system. This year, the home improvement retailer is doubling its
Retool Your School commitment to fund 30 separate projects, providing $20,000 to $75,000 grants per school.
“Since 2009, The Home Depot has continued to increase its investment in campus improvements for HBCUs,” said Derek Bottoms, chief diversity, equity & inclusion officer for The Home Depot, in a written statement. “In addition to other HBCU initiatives supported by The Home Depot over the years, we are doubling our Retool Your School commitment to
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The Home Depot will contribute $1 million in grants to support campus improvements at Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) through its annual Retool Your School program, for which voting is now open. Established in 2009, the program has emphasized HBCUs’ vital role in the American higher education system. This year, the home improvement retailer is doubling its Retool Your School commitment to fund 30 projects, providing $20,000 to $75,000 grants per school.
HBCU students, alumni and advocates can vote for their favorite HBCUs through Twitter and Instagram using the school’s designated hashtag found at retoolyourschool.com or through the voting portal also on the website. There are three school clusters, based on student population, and the ten schools with the most votes per cluster will be awarded the campus improvement grants. Voting is unlimited and ends on March 15, 2021 at 11:59 a.m. EST.