Home Depot Foundation, Atlanta Nonprofits Honor Veterans

From The Home Depot Foundation: On Friday, Nov. 9, The Home Depot Foundation will partner with Habitat for Humanity, The Mission Continues, Tool Bank, Furniture Bank, Hero Box, Top Dogg K9 and Westside Future Fund to host volunteer projects and a Veterans Day ceremony. Customers and the surrounding community are invited to The Home Depot Backyard to serve local veterans alongside The Home Depot’s associate-led volunteer force, Team Depot. Volunteer projects will include: assembling kitchen tables for local families, building custom playhouses for children of veteran families, constructing therapeutic dog beds for veteran service dogs and framing walls for homes.

This will mark the company’s first event at The Backyard and the celebratory ceremony will involve the following key moments:

· Chairman, CEO and President, Craig Menear to announce The Foundation’s new commitment to veteran causes

· Remarks from one of the company’s founders, Arthur Blank

· Live musical performances by Grammy Award winner and Contemporary Gospel recording artist, Tasha Cobbs-Leonard and The Atlanta Music Project

· Impactful keynote presentation from United States Army Veteran and ambassador for the Gary Sinise Foundation, Michael Schlitz

This event in Atlanta is the closing moment of The Home Depot’s eighth annual Celebration of Service campaign to improve the homes and lives of U.S. military veterans and their families. Since 2011, The Home Depot Foundation has transformed more than 40,000 homes and facilities for veterans across the country. Giving back to veterans is personal to The Home Depot, as more than 35,000 of the company’s associates have served in the military.

As part of the campaign and for the first time ever, Team Depot will temporarily trade their signature orange for military green T-shirts to honor the service men and women who have served us all.

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