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Oakwood Competes Again for Home Depot® Grant
 Oakwood University has been announced as a finalist in The Home Depot's 2015 RETOOL YOUR SCHOOL Campus Improvement Grant Program.
Online voting begins TODAY, Friday, February 27.
Oakwood is in Cluster 2.
Tweet now #Oakwood_RYS15.
One $50,000 Tier I major grant, 13 Tier II $10,000 grants, and three $25,000 campus pride grants for the schools that receive the most online votes and social media activity, as assessed by The Home Depot®, will be awarded. The Home Depot® will announce the winners on or around May 2.
This year, the Retool Your School Grant Program is using a new grant structure which will award a total of $255,000 in grants to nine accredited HBCUs in $50,000, $25,000, and $10,000 grant denominations. Based on student enrollment, schools will be categorized into one of three clusters:
- schools with 4,000 students or more,
- schools with between 3,999 and 1,201 students, or
- schools with less than 1,200 students.
Oakwood's three proposals highlight how each project will make a lasting, positive impact on the campus. The three projects are:
$50,000 - Mile-long circuit of outdoor exercise stations emphasizing the laws of health
$25,000 - Fruit trees near the Unity Pond
$10,000 - Bleachers for fans and seating for players on the soccer field
Online voting begins TODAY, Friday, February 27. Oakwood is in Cluster 2. Vote (on your desktop computer, laptop, smart phone, AND tablet) at: http://retoolyourschool.com/vote-now/. You can vote on all of these devices every day - once a day. Tweet now #Oakwood_RYS15.(On some devices, you may need to scroll to find Oakwood University.)
Team Oakwood -- we did this (and won) for the past two years. Let's show them we can do this again! |
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About Oakwood
Oakwood University, a historically black, Seventh-day Adventist institution in Huntsville, Alabama, has as its mission to transform students through biblically-based education for service to God and humanity.
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