The Home Depot hosted its 2017 Retool Your School Winners’ Ceremony in Atlanta this week to announce the nine HBCUs winning a total of $360K. Special guests included Atlanta Mayor Kasim Reed, Actor and Author Hill Harper and Retool Your School judge and HBCU alumnus Laz Alonso. Other judges included: Gregory Moore, Esq., Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (SIAC); Mr. Michael Tabb, managing partner, Red Rock Global; Dr. Ivory A. Toldson, president and CEO of the Quality Education for Minorities Network; and Mr. Jermaine Luke, store manager, The Home Depot. Based on student population, the final schools were judged in three categories with three schools each winning a $50K, $40K and $30K grant. The top schools winning the $50K grand prize and the representatives accepting on their behalf:
Herman J. Felton, President, Wilberforce University
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The Home Depot Announces Its 2017 Retool Your School Grant Award Recipients at The Home Depot Headquarters Winners Ceremony With Special Guests Atlanta Mayor Kasim Reed And Actor Hill Harper
Nine Historically Black Colleges and Universities Were Awarded a Total of $360,000 in Campus Improvement Grants
This week, The Home Depot® held the winners’ ceremony to announce the 2017 Retool Your School Campus Improvement Grant Program recipients. This year, nine HBCUs were awarded a total of $360,000 to use towards funding sustainable campus improvement projects of their choosing. To date, the program has awarded more than $1.8 million dollars in grant money to HBCUs. In 2017 alone, 72 HBCUs participated in the voting phase of the program.
