EDITORIAL BETTER BUSINESS.TAKE some paint, some ceiling fans, a few brushes and a lot of hard work, and what do you get? Great opportunities for some local kids, that's what. Local Home Depot The Home Depot (NYSE: HD) is an American retailer of home improvement and construction products and services. Headquartered in Vinings, just outside Atlanta in unincorporated Cobb County, Georgia, Home Depot employs more than 355,000 people and operates 2,164 big-box stores and their employees have generously donated do·nate v. do·nat·ed, do·nat·ing, do·nates v.tr. To present as a gift to a fund or cause; contribute. v.intr. To make a contribution to a fund or cause. the materials and labor to convert a former Canoga Park funeral home into a new center for the West Valley Boys & Girls Club Girls Club is a 2002 American television series created by David E. Kelley, who was also it's producer and executive producer. Only two out of a total of thirteen episodes created were broadcast on Fox Television in the United States and Global Television in Canada. . Thanks to their gift, some 500 kids, ranging from ages 6 to 17, will have a beautifully renovated facility for arts, sports, learning and recreation. And that's just for starters. The club's directors anticipate that once the overhauled facility is open to the public, enrollment will double. A little philanthropy philanthropy, the spirit of active goodwill toward others as demonstrated in efforts to promote their welfare. The term is often used interchangeably with charity. goes a long way. But this is about more than charity; it's it's 1. Contraction of it is. 2. Contraction of it has. See Usage Note at its. it's it is or it has it's be ~have about civic responsibility, businesses taking care of the communities that take care of them. When kids have positive, constructive activities and safe places to gather, they're likely to stay in school and away from crime. That, in turn, makes a neighborhood safer and more prosperous, the sort of place where people want to settle down and buy homes - then spend mountains of money fixing them up. So for Home Depot, doing a good deed deed, in law, written document that is signed and delivered by which one person conveys land or other realty (see property) to another. A deed may assure the extent of the conveying party's ownership or, if the party is uncertain of the precise extent, he issues a is also a matter of good business. Or, as Tony Fernandez, manager of the Woodland Hills Home Depot puts it, ``The people we're helping today will become our future customers.'' That's not just true of Home Depot, but all companies that do business in the community. And that's why business can - and should - play a partnering role in supporting the institutions that make neighborhoods strong. It's in their own best interest, and all of ours. |
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