MINNEAPOLIS, April 28, 2016 /PRNewswire/ -- Valspar has
provided $2.5 million in cash and
product donations to support 51 local Habitat for Humanity
organizations in 16 states as part of Valspar's National
Neighborhood Week, May 9 – 14, 2016.
Every Valspar site in the United
States will be activating volunteer teams during National
Neighborhood Week to work on Habitat home builds and A Brush With
Kindness projects.
"Valspar is committed to doing its part to transform
neighborhoods through its partnership with Habitat for Humanity,"
said Gary E. Hendrickson, Valspar
Chairman and CEO. "As a founding partner of the neighborhood
revitalization program, A Brush With Kindness, Valspar helps
families, seniors and veterans living in homes that are in need of
a new coat of paint and minor repairs. Many low-income families
live in challenging circumstances and struggle to maintain their
homes. The A Brush With Kindness program brightens the lives of
families and restores pride throughout neighborhoods."
The Valspar Foundation provided funding and a dollar-for-dollar
match to the annual employee giving totaling $600,000 in financial support to local Habitat
organizations in communities where Valspar operates. In addition to
donating the paint for the volunteer projects, Valspar has donated
paint to 60 local Habitat for Humanity ReStores. The ReStores are
home improvement outlets open to the public and all revenue
supports Habitat's work building, rehabbing and repairing homes for
low-income families, seniors and veterans. The market value of the
product donation is over $1.9
million.
Valspar's National Neighborhood Week is providing support to the
following local Habitat organizations:
Alabama:
- Greater Birmingham Habitat for Humanity
California:
- Habitat for Humanity of Greater Los
Angeles
- Habitat for Humanity of Greater
Sacramento
Florida:
- Habitat for Humanity of Pinellas
County, in Clearwater
Georgia:
- Athens Area Habitat for Humanity
- Augusta/CSRA Habitat for Humanity
- Habitat for Humanity of Newton
County, in Covington
Illinois:
- Chicagoland Habitat for Humanity
- DuPage Habitat for Humanity, in Wheaton
- Fox Valley Habitat for Humanity, in Montgomery
- Habitat for Humanity Chicago
- Habitat for Humanity Chicago South Suburbs, in Hazel Crest
- Habitat for Humanity of Kankakee
County
- Habitat for Humanity Lake County, in Waukegan
- Habitat for Humanity of McHenry
County
- Habitat for Humanity Northern Fox Valley, in Elgin
- Rockford Area Habitat for Humanity
- Will County Habitat for Humanity, in Joliet
Iowa:
- Quad Cities Habitat for Humanity, in Davenport
Kentucky:
- Bowling Green/Warren County
Habitat for Humanity
- Habitat for Humanity of Metro Louisville
Maryland:
- Washington County Habitat for Humanity, in Hagerstown
Michigan:
- Habitat for Humanity of Kent
County, in Grand
Rapids
- Habitat for Humanity of Oakland
County, in Pontiac
Minnesota:
- Central Minnesota Habitat for Humanity, in Saint Cloud
- Habitat for Humanity of Douglas
County, in Alexandria
- Habitat for Humanity Freeborn/ Mower, in Austin
- Habitat for Humanity South Central Minnesota, in Mankato
- Habitat for Humanity of West Central Minnesota, in Willmar
- Habitat for Humanity Winona-Fillmore Counties, in Winona
- Itasca County Habitat for Humanity, in Grand Rapids
- Lake Agassiz Habitat for Humanity, in Moorhead
- Lakes Area Habitat for Humanity, in Brainerd
- Northwoods Habitat for Humanity, in Bemidji
- Redwood River Habitat for Humanity, in Marshall
- Rochester Area Habitat for Humanity
- Twin Cities Habitat for Humanity
North Carolina:
- Chatham Habitat for Humanity
- Habitat for Humanity of Charlotte
- Habitat for Humanity of High
Point, Archdale and
Trinity
- Our Towns of North Mecklenburg
– Iredell, in Cornelius
New Hampshire:
- Merrimack Valley Habitat for Humanity, in Lawrence
Ohio:
- Habitat for Humanity of Summit
County, in Akron
Pennsylvania:
- Habitat for Humanity of Beaver
County, in Beaver
Falls
- Habitat for Humanity of Greater
Pittsburgh
- Lancaster Lebanon Habitat for Humanity
Texas:
- Dallas Area Habitat for Humanity
- Garland Area Habitat for Humanity
Wisconsin:
- Dane County Habitat for Humanity, in Madison
- Habitat for Humanity of Waukesha
County
- St. Croix Valley Habitat for Humanity
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market, and highly-engineered solutions for the construction,
industrial, packaging and transportation markets. Founded in 1806,
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