Vote Today And Every Day In
March To Help MSHV Win
$250,000 From The Home Depot
Foundation
The Midwest Shelter for
Homeless Veterans is competing
with 10 other nonprofits for
$250,000 from the Home Depot
Foundation in its Aprons In
Action Facebook Contest Finale.
Vote for MSHV once a day from
March 1 through March 31
Please Note: You must be
a Facebook member in order to
vote in the Home Depot contest.
After clicking on the "Vote Now"
link you will be asked to log
into (or sign up for) Facebook
in order to vote for MSHV. In
addition, once on the Home Depot
Foundation Facebook page, MSHV
voters need to click on the "Aprons
in Action Vote Now" link,
located below the picture, and
not on the picture itself. The
Midwest Shelter is Option #7.
The Midwest Shelter for Homeless
Veterans, the October 2011
winner of $25,000 from The Home
Depot in The Home Depot
Foundation's year-long Facebook
voting program called Aprons in
Action, will compete against 10
other monthly winners for
$250,000 in the final round of
the contest. Voting begins March
1 and runs through March 31. You
can vote now
here.
The organization with the most
votes at the end of the month
will win the $250,000 grand
prize. Organizations with the
second and third most votes will
receive $150,000 and $100,000
from The Home Depot Foundation,
respectively.
The final percentages of votes
for each nonprofit will be
posted on The Home Depot and The
Home Depot Foundation's Facebook
pages.
For more information and to view
the program rules, visit The
Home Depot on Facebook or go
to
www.homedepotfoundation.org.
About Midwest Shelter for
Homeless Veterans, Inc.
Located in downtown Wheaton,
MSHV is a transitional housing
program that provides
counseling, access to health
care and educational and
job-training services to U.S.
veterans of any era to help them
out of homelessness and back to
useful, productive lives. People
interested in making a donation,
volunteering or learning more
about the shelter can
click
here or call 630-871-VETS
(8387).
About The Home Depot
Foundation
In 2011, The Home Depot
Foundation committed $30 million
over three years to nonprofit
organizations dedicated to
improving the homes of
economically disadvantaged
veterans. Through Team Depot,
the company's associate-led
volunteer program, thousands of
Home Depot associates volunteer
their time and talents to
positively transform
neighborhoods and perform basic
repairs and modifications to
homes and to the facilities
serving veterans with critical
housing needs.
Since its formation in 2002, The
Home Depot Foundation has
granted more than $270 million
to nonprofit organizations
improving homes and lives in
local communities. To learn more
and see our associates in
action, visit
www.homedepotfoundation.org,
follow us on Twitter @homedepotfdn,
and like us on Facebook at
www.facebook.com/homedepotfoundation.
“Giving back” isn’t just a nice saying for us. It’s one of The Home Depot’s eight core values that the Company was built on 32 years ago. Learn more about all the ways we give back to communities.
