As the second largest retailer in the United States, second only to WalMart, The Home Depot boasts the largest home improvement retailer in the U.S. The Home Depot currently operates 2,193 warehouse stores in seven countries, employing 331,000 people in the U.S., Mexico, Canada, China, Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, and Guam. Back in June of 1978 Home Depot founders Arthur Blank and Bernie Marcus opened the first two, 60,000 square foot warehouse locations in Atlanta, Georgia. The brand new home improvement retailer set out to build the largest construction supply and services warehouse and featured an astonishing 25,000 products in each of their stores.
When Blank and Marcus founded The Home Depot, the goal was to provide quality goods with superb customer service. But the two wanted to be a part of something much larger than simply a construction and home improvement retailer, Blank and Marcus wanted to give back to the communities that they represented.
In 2002, The Home Depot Foundation was established as a not-for-profit organization that funded and supported affiliated nonprofit organizations at rebuilding communities by offering affordable housing, the planting of trees in neighborhoods and schools, and building community parks and children’s playgrounds.
Furthermore, The Home Depot Foundation embraces communities and maintains relations through the improvement of long-term welfare in each supported community. The Home Depot Foundation long-term building approach constitutes designing and maintaining healthy, affordable housing in communities where residents want to live and thrive.
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