The Home Depot launched a program in 2011, called The Home Depot Foundation. According to the company's website, the group has given $80 million to support veterans. The foundation consists of volunteer employees who dedicate their time to fundraising and working on projects to help former servicemembers.
On Oct. 22, The Home Depot Foundation chapter in Detroit, Michigan, spent the day making repairs to a local women veterans center, as reported by The Detroit News. The Epiphany Veterans Life Center, which provides services like meals, transportation, medical care, counseling, career training, job placement and transitional housing for female veterans in the area, was in need of a quite a few repairs.
Volunteers from the foundation installed new lighting fixtures, painted, put in new flooring and cleaned. They even installed new shelving, according to the news source. In addition to the work done in Michigan, other volunteer groups from the foundation's sector across the country will be participating in a number of veteran improvement jobs through Veterans Day.
To view pictures from the Detroit project and many more Home Depot Foundation jobs, visit Instagram or Twitter and search the hashtag #ServiceSelfie. Every time someone likes one of these hashtagged photos, the foundation will donate $1 toward future veteran projects.