Customer donations during campaign will support 124 Canadian
charities working to prevent and end youth homelessness in
Canada
TORONTO, Nov. 30, 2021 /CNW/ - The Home Depot Canada
Foundation launched The Orange Door Project holiday fundraising
campaign on Giving Tuesday to help prevent and end youth
homelessness in communities across Canada. Its 182 stores have partnered with
local youth-serving charities who will receive all donations made
in-store and online while the campaign runs until December 19th.
"Many of our partners have faced new challenges through the
pandemic and are experiencing marked decreases in individual
donations, making the youth homelessness crisis in Canada even more urgent," said Pamela O'Rourke, board chair, The Home Depot
Canada Foundation, and vice president of merchandising, The Home
Depot Canada. "But as the ultimate doers, our customers and
associates have continued to champion this program, year after
year, raising more than $15 million
dollars since we launched The Orange Door Project campaign
in 2009."
The Home Depot Canada covers all administrative costs of the
campaign, ensuring that 100 per cent of customer donations stay in
the communities where they were raised. As part of this year's
campaign, The Home Depot Canada Foundation will donate $2,000 to charity partners on behalf of each
store to help address the additional impacts created by COVID-19
and the company has made a donation of $2,000 on behalf of each store in British Columbia to the Red Cross to support
our communities through the recent floods and mudslides, for a
total commitment of $416,000.
Donations to The Orange Door Project campaign support
organizations that provide safe, stable housing and the life skills
development programs that help youth build brighter futures.
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.
What a donation can provide:
- On average, $4 provides youth
with a nutritious meal
- $16 suppliers a personal hygiene
kit
- $50 provides a safe bed for the
night
- $150 provides a fresh start kit
for moving out
Donations can be made in all 182 stores and at
OrangeDoorProject.ca where more information can also be found about
the work of The Home Depot Canada Foundation, including the recent
launch of TradeWorx, a targeted investment in skilled trades
training for youth experiencing homelessness.
*Source: A Way Home Canada
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 $44
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.