家得宝基金会11月6日再投3,000万美元，44笔资助支持退伍军人住房，累计投入已超6亿美元
家得宝基金会11月6日宣布，再投入3,000万美元、通过44笔资助支持退伍军人服务组织，用于关键住房修缮、智能家居改造以及帮助无家可归退伍军人安居的住房项目。
本轮资助包括：为Gary Sinise基金会、Tunnel to Towers基金会与Jared Allen's Homes for Wounded Warriors等组织提供资金，为重伤退伍军人建造无障碍定制住宅与无抵押智能住宅；为Meals on Wheels America、Habitat for Humanity International、Purple Heart Homes等非营利伙伴提供支持；为Volunteers of America提供住房单元建设与改造资金；并支持Operation Homefront的过渡性住房村、永久支持性住房与关键住房修缮项目。基金会称，新资助还将把一项主租赁住房试点扩展至华盛顿特区与亚利桑那州普雷斯科特，并支持1,000多处面向年长与残障退伍军人的关键修缮。
家得宝基金会表示，其迄今累计投入已超过6亿美元，改善了65,000多处退伍军人住房与设施，本轮资助使其向2030年累计投入7.5亿美元的承诺继续推进。
图中是Habitat for Humanity在德国的建房项目现场，该机构为家得宝基金会本轮资助的非营利伙伴之一。
Home Depot Foundation Invests Another $30 Million on November 6 in 44 Veteran Housing Grants; Total Investment Tops $600 Million
The Home Depot Foundation announced on November 6 an additional investment of $30 million in 44 grants to veteran service organizations, funding critical home repairs, smart home modifications and housing programs for veterans exiting homelessness.
The grants include funding for the Gary Sinise Foundation, Tunnel to Towers Foundation and Jared Allen's Homes for Wounded Warriors to build new accessible, personalized and mortgage-free smart homes for catastrophically wounded veterans; support for nonprofit partners including Meals on Wheels America, Habitat for Humanity International and Purple Heart Homes; funding for Volunteers of America to construct or rehabilitate housing units; and support for Operation Homefront's transitional housing villages, permanent supportive housing and critical home repairs. The foundation said the funding will also expand a master-lease housing pilot to Washington, D.C., and Prescott, Arizona, and support more than 1,000 critical repairs for senior and disabled veterans.
The foundation said its investments to date exceed $600 million, improving more than 65,000 veteran homes and facilities, and that the new grants advance its pledge of $750 million by 2030.
来源：家得宝基金会
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图片来源：图中是Habitat for Humanity在德国的建房项目现场，该机构为家得宝基金会本轮资助的非营利伙伴之一。Habitat for Humanity Deutschland, via Wikimedia Commons
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