Support veterans through The Home Depot Foundation Facebook contest

Sons of the American Legion in East Point, Ga. is enlisting area residents to help the organization win a $25,000 The Home Depot gift card by voting daily in January in The Home Depot Foundation’s second annual Aprons in Action Facebook contest. Voting began January 1 and runs through January 31, 2013 The organization that receives the most votes during the month will win the $25,000 prize to help fund an organizational or community improvement project, and will have the opportunity to compete for the grand prize of $250,000 at the end of the year-long program.

Each month during the year-long Aprons in Action competition, The Home Depot Foundation selects four organizations that support U.S. veterans to compete for the monthly prize. In May 2013, Facebook fans will be recruited by all 11 monthly winners to vote in the contest’s final round. The organization that receives the most votes will win the $250,000 grand prize from The Home Depot Foundation, and the organizations that earn the second and third most votes will win $150,000 and $100,000, respectively.

Voting runs from January 1, 2013 at 9:00 a.m. ET through January 31, 2013 at 11:59 p.m. ET. Find Aprons in Action on The Home Depot Foundation’s Facebook page at www.facebook.com/homedepotfoundation. Voting is available on computers and mobile devices.

The final percentages of votes for each nonprofit will be posted on The Home Depot and The Home Depot Foundation’s Facebook pages on February 1, 2013 at 9:00 a.m. ET.

Turn to The Home Depot Foundation Facebook page and support this very worthy Georgia non-profit.

Follow this Atlanta Community Guide Examiner to find out “what’s happening” by clicking on subscribe.Email notification with each new posting. Also follow this Examiner as the Buckhead Cooking Examiner and my blog, http://luvgourmet.com/blog/ and receive the best new recipes and interesting facts and tips about food for you and your family.

Advertisement

, Atlanta Community Guide Examiner

Former New Orleanian Lynda Mahana has always had a great passion for food and entertaining. A mother of four and ardent hostess and cook, Lynda operates In Good Taste, her own catering and event planning business. Lynda is the founder and first president of the Cancer Crusaders, a 30 plus year...

Today's top buzz...