TORONTO, Nov. 28,
2023 /CNW/ - Today, The Home Depot Canada launches
its 15th bi-annual Orange Door Project fundraising campaign,
combating youth homelessness in Canadian communities. Since the
program's inception in 2009, the Foundation has raised over
$18 million for youth across
Canada, with hopes of raising
$900,000 this holiday season.
"Homelessness is one of the most urgent social issues facing
Canadian youth today, and now, more than ever, they need our help,"
said Pamela O'Rourke, Board Chair of
The Home Depot Canada Foundation and Vice President of
Merchandising at The Home Depot Canada. "Currently, nearly 40,000
youth are experiencing or at risk of homelessness across the
country and need our support for a safe place to live, access to
services, and a chance to build a better future - that's why the
Orange Door Project is so important."
Beginning on November 28th,
coinciding with Giving Tuesday and continuing until December 17th, The Home Depot Canada Foundation's
Orange Door Project campaign will collaborate with local charities
across all 182 stores to support ongoing initiatives aimed at
providing safe, stable housing and life skills development programs
that help create healthy pathways for youth to exit homelessness.
The company will cover all administrative costs associated with the
campaign, ensuring that every dollar raised—100%—directly benefits
each local community. Additionally, associates will be actively
involved, empowering them to make a tangible difference in these
vital community efforts. The Foundation recently set a new target
of raising $125 million by 2030, and
this campaign, among others, directly supports this goal.
Youth homelessness in Canada*:
- Each year, at least 35,000-40,000 Canadian youth experience
homelessness.
- One in five Canadians experiencing homelessness are youth.
- 29% of youth experiencing homelessness identify as LGBTQ2S, 28%
identify as a member of a racialized community, and 31% identify as
Indigenous.
- 29% of youth experiencing homelessness identify as LGBTQ2S, 28%
identify as a member of a racialized community, and 31%
identify as Indigenous.
*Source: A Way Home
Canada.
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Donations can be made in all The Home Depot Canada stores and
at OrangeDoorProject.ca until December
17th, 2023.
About The Home Depot Canada Foundation
The Home Depot
Canada Foundation is a Canadian registered charity that is
committed to preventing and ending youth homelessness in
Canada. Since 2014, the Foundation
invested more than $60 million and
worked together with community partners across the country, to
remove barriers, break cycles of inequity, and enable youth at-risk
of or experiencing homelessness to achieve positive development
outcomes and build brighter futures. For more information,
visit: www.homedepot.ca/foundation.
About The Home Depot
The Home Depot is the world's
largest home improvement specialty retailer. At the end of the
third quarter, the Company operated a total of 2,317 retail stores
in all 50 states, the District of
Columbia, Puerto Rico, the
U.S. Virgin Islands, Guam, 10 Canadian provinces and Mexico, including 14 stores in the U.S. from a
small acquisition completed during the second quarter of fiscal
2021. The company employs approximately 500,000 associates. The
Home Depot's stock is traded on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE:
HD) and is included in the Dow Jones industrial average and
Standard & Poor's 500 index.
SOURCE The Home Depot of Canada Inc.