Team Depot® Helps to Make a Difference
To highlight their new partnership, Volunteers of America and The Home Depot Foundation organized a service effort in conjunction with Volunteers of America’s 2011 national conference in Sioux Falls, S.D. Approximately two dozen local volunteers from The Home Depot® in Sioux Falls joined Volunteers of America community volunteers to help paint and perform renovations to Volunteers of America of the Dakota’s thrift store, which generates goods and funds to support the organization’s programs and provides vocational training opportunities and other services to South Dakotans with disabilities.
In April, The Home Depot Foundation announced a three-year partnership with Volunteers of America, including a $1.8 million grant to repair and rehab properties where veterans and their families live. First-year projects will include the rehabilitation of residential facilities in Detroit, Houston, Los Angeles and Miami, serving approximately 275 disabled and/or homeless veterans and their families at any given time. Each project will include numerous opportunities for Team Depot volunteers to get involved as well.
The Volunteers of America thrift store in Sioux Falls had no budget for a sorely needed paint job. Thanks to The Home Depot Foundation’s generous donation of materials and the helping hands and hard work of many volunteers, the immense project of painting the entire interior of the store was completed in just five hours. Spirits remained high throughout the day and volunteers were focused and fully committed to the project. Team Depot led the way with their expertise and enthusiasm. The service project was also featured in a story in the Argus Leader.
