Last year Home Depot launched a great program called "Retool Your School Campus Improvement Program." The grant program is only for HBCU's and it was put in place to provide campus renovations and improvements to HBCU's throughout the United States. In the programs first year 57 school's submitted a major and minor project they wanted done and 11 were chosen. The #1 winning project received $50,000 for their major project and the other ten schools chosen received $10,000 each for their minor project. Some of the winning projects were Elizabeth City State University in first place (baseball field installation) and Florida A&M Universty (rainwater collections system installation.) The program is back for it's second year and ready to kick off in full swing. HBCU'S are near and dear to my heart so this is something big to me that Home Depot is so committed to helping HBCU's and African American communites in general.
They also joined forces with Honda to sponsor the 2011 Honda Battle of the Bands which will take place later on today in Atlanta, Georgia at 3:00 (oh how I wish I was there although, FAMU isn't a part of it this year lol)... Each year over $200,000 in grants are given away throughout this competition. I must say Home Depot is really doing their part in our communities...such a good look!
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