Home Depot Foundation Commits $50 Million To Strengthening Trade Professions

March 13, 2018

The Home Depot Foundation will be committing $50 million over the next 10 years to training more than 20,000 tradespeople.

The Home Depot Foundation will be committing $50 million over the next 10 years to training more than 20,000 tradespeople.

The focus of the program will be on training veterans—a population The Home Depot Foundation has been committed to since 2011—in the skills of plumbing, carpentry, electrical engineering, and HVACs.

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Kadie Yale | Former Architecture & Design Expert

Kadie Yale holds a BA in Industrial Design from San Francisco State University and MA in Decorative Art History and Theory from Parsons the New School.

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