{"id":83730,"date":"2020-08-25T19:31:00","date_gmt":"2020-08-25T21:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/english-the-home-depot-mobilizes-to-support-communities-facing-hurricane-laura\/"},"modified":"2020-08-25T19:33:01","modified_gmt":"2020-08-25T23:33:01","slug":"the-home-depot-se-moviliza-para-apoyar-a-las-comunidades-que-enfrentan-al-huracan-laura","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/the-home-depot-se-moviliza-para-apoyar-a-las-comunidades-que-enfrentan-al-huracan-laura\/","title":{"rendered":"The Home Depot Mobilizes to Support Communities Facing Hurricane Laura"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<style type=\"text\/css\"><![CDATA[\n\/* Style Definitions *\/\nspan.prnews_span\n{\nfont-size:8pt;\nfont-family:\"Arial\";\ncolor:black;\n}\na.prnews_a\n{\ncolor:blue;\n}\nli.prnews_li\n{\nfont-size:8pt;\nfont-family:\"Arial\";\ncolor:black;\n}\np.prnews_p\n{\nfont-size:0.62em;\nfont-family:\"Arial\";\ncolor:black;\nmargin:0in;\n}\n]]><\/style>\n<div class=\"xn-content\">\n<p><span class=\"xn-location\">ATLANTA<\/span>, <span class=\"xn-chron\">Aug. 25, 2020<\/span> \/PRNewswire-HISPANIC PR WIRE\/ &#8212; As Hurricane Laura marches toward the Gulf Coast, The Home Depot<sup>\u00ae<\/sup> will activate its Hurricane Command Center to support communities preparing for the storm. <\/p>\n<div id=\"prni_dvprnejpgcd4eleft\" style=\"WIDTH: 100%; TEXT-ALIGN: left\" dir=\"ltr\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"prnejpgcd4eleft\" title=\"The Home Depot logo.\" border=\"0\" alt=\"The Home Depot logo.\" align=\"middle\" imagelabel=\"General\" src=\"https:\/\/mma.prnewswire.com\/media\/118058\/the_home_depot_logo.jpg\"\/><\/div>\n<p>This year, the Hurricane Command Center will be virtual to prioritize safety and social distancing. More than 250 associates from the company&#8217;s merchandising, operations and supply chain teams are working around the clock to move truckloads of products to stores in <span class=\"xn-location\">Texas<\/span> and <span class=\"xn-location\">Louisiana<\/span>. So far more than 230 trucks have reached the area with products like generators, water, tarps, batteries and flashlights.\u00a0 <\/p>\n<p>There are more than 50 Home Depot stores in the areas that could see impacts from Hurricane Laura. Stores will remain open as long as it&#8217;s safe to do so.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Our associates are vital to helping our communities brace for this approaching storm and we&#8217;re extremely grateful for their hard work,&#8221; said <span class=\"xn-person\">Hector Padilla<\/span>, president of the Southern Division of The Home Depot. &#8220;We&#8217;ll continue to hope for minimal impact from this storm as we prioritize the safety of our associates and customers in this active hurricane season.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The Home Depot Foundation is working with national nonprofit partners including Team Rubicon, Convoy of Hope, Operation Blessing, All Hands and Hearts and ToolBank Disaster Service.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Home Depot Foundation works with its nonprofit partners ahead of disaster season to pre-fortify warehouses with emergency supplies so they&#8217;re able to activate in impacted communities quickly. Operation Blessing has sent emergency water and storm clean-up supplies and will deploy more after the hurricane weakens.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Our thoughts are with\u00a0the communities that may be impacted by this storm,&#8221; said\u00a0Shannon Gerber, executive director of The Home Depot Foundation. &#8220;We&#8217;re working closely with our nonprofit partners to identify critical needs so we can provide immediate support. In addition to financial support, our Team Depot associate volunteers will work alongside our disaster relief partners to assist the people and areas impacted.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The Homer Fund, Home Depot&#8217;s employee assistance program, is also ready to process grants for associates affected by the storm. In 2019, The Homer Fund gave more than <span class=\"xn-money\">$16 million<\/span> to associates,\u00a0including nearly <span class=\"xn-money\">$1 million<\/span> to assist families affected by natural disasters.<\/p>\n<p><b><u>About The Home Depot<br \/><\/u><\/b>The Home Depot is the world&#8217;s largest home improvement specialty retailer, with 2,293 retail stores in all 50 states, the <span class=\"xn-location\">District of Columbia<\/span>, <span class=\"xn-location\">Puerto Rico<\/span>, <span class=\"xn-location\">U.S. Virgin Islands<\/span>, <span class=\"xn-location\">Guam<\/span>, 10 Canadian provinces and <span class=\"xn-location\">Mexico<\/span>. In fiscal 2019, The Home Depot had sales of <span class=\"xn-money\">$110.2 billion<\/span> and earnings of <span class=\"xn-money\">$11.2 billion<\/span>. The Company employs more than 400,000 associates. The Home Depot&#8217;s stock is traded on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE: HD) and is included in the Dow Jones industrial average and Standard &amp; Poor&#8217;s 500 index.<\/p>\n<p><b><u>About The Home Depot Foundation<br \/><\/u><\/b><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/c212.net\/c\/link\/?t=0&amp;l=en&amp;o=2899443-1&amp;h=1112747288&amp;u=https%3A%2F%2Fcorporate.homedepot.com%2Fcommunity&amp;a=The+Home+Depot+Foundation\" rel=\"nofollow\">The Home Depot Foundation<\/a>\u00a0works to improve the homes and lives of U.S. veterans, train skilled tradespeople to fill the labor gap and support communities impacted by natural disasters. Since 2011, the Foundation has invested more than <span class=\"xn-money\">$350 million<\/span> in veteran causes\u00a0and improved more than\u00a047,000\u00a0veteran homes and facilities in\u00a04,500\u00a0cities. The Foundation has pledged to invest half of a billion dollars in veteran causes by 2025.\u00a0To learn more about The Home Depot Foundation visit\u00a0<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/c212.net\/c\/link\/?t=0&amp;l=en&amp;o=2899443-1&amp;h=1081673245&amp;u=https%3A%2F%2Fcorporate.homedepot.com%2Ffoundation&amp;a=HomeDepotFoundation.org\" rel=\"nofollow\">HomeDepotFoundation.org<\/a>\u00a0and follow us on\u00a0<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/c212.net\/c\/link\/?t=0&amp;l=en&amp;o=2899443-1&amp;h=4190913406&amp;u=https%3A%2F%2Ftwitter.com%2FHomeDepotFound&amp;a=Twitter\" rel=\"nofollow\">Twitter<\/a>\u00a0@HomeDepotFound and on\u00a0<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/c212.net\/c\/link\/?t=0&amp;l=en&amp;o=2899443-1&amp;h=250169743&amp;u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2Fhomedepotfoundation%2F&amp;a=Facebook\" rel=\"nofollow\">Facebook<\/a>\u00a0+\u00a0<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/c212.net\/c\/link\/?t=0&amp;l=en&amp;o=2899443-1&amp;h=3924564894&amp;u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.instagram.com%2Fhomedepotfoundation%2F&amp;a=Instagram%C2%A0\" rel=\"nofollow\">Instagram\u00a0<\/a>@HomeDepotFoundation.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Logo &#8211; <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/c212.net\/c\/link\/?t=0&amp;l=en&amp;o=2899443-1&amp;h=1918649278&amp;u=https%3A%2F%2Fmma.prnewswire.com%2Fmedia%2F118058%2Fthe_home_depot_logo.jpg&amp;a=https%3A%2F%2Fmma.prnewswire.com%2Fmedia%2F118058%2Fthe_home_depot_logo.jpg\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/mma.prnewswire.com\/media\/118058\/the_home_depot_logo.jpg<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>SOURCE  The Home Depot<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"xn-content\">\n<p><span class=\"xn-location\">ATLANTA<\/span>, <span class=\"xn-chron\">Aug. 25, 2020<\/span> \/PRNewswire-HISPANIC PR WIRE\/ &#8212; As Hurricane Laura marches toward the Gulf Coast, The Home Depot<sup>\u00ae<\/sup> will activate its Hurricane Command Center to support communities preparing for the storm. <\/p>\n<div id=\"prni_dvprnejpgcd4eleft\" dir=\"ltr\">&lt;img id=&quot;prnejpgcd4eleft&quot; title=&quot;The Home Depot logo.&quot; border=&quot;0&quot; alt=&quot;The Home Depot logo.&quot; align=&quot;middle&quot; imagelabel=&quot;General&quot;&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":83731,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-83730","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-interes-humano"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83730","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=83730"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83730\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/83731"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83730"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83730"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83730"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}