Office Depot, Inc. Donates $200,000 to Youth-Focused Non-Profit Organizations to Help Students Beat the ‘Summer Slide’
June 25 2020 - 9:00AM
Business Wire
Donations to Support Educational Programs
Designed to Keep Underserved Children and Teens Learning and
Engaged Throughout the Summer
Office Depot, Inc. (NASDAQ: ODP), a leading provider of business
services, products and technology solutions through an integrated
B2B distribution platform, today announced that it is providing
$200,000 to select Boys & Girls Clubs across the country as
well as other youth-focused non-profit organizations. These
donations will help fund programs designed to keep underserved
children and teens learning and engaged throughout the summer in an
effort to beat summer learning loss, also known as the “summer
slide.”
“With the closure of schools earlier this year due to COVID-19,
kids attending our Clubs are at a greater risk of falling even
further behind their peers,” said Kelly Lemberger, executive vice
president of literacy, education and training initiatives for the
Boys and Girls Clubs of Philadelphia. “As we work to re-open our
Clubs for summer camp programming, Office Depot’s generous donation
will help us continue to engage our members in fun, hands-on
educational activities, that can help our kids begin the next
school year on track to succeed.”
The academic regression that typically occurs during the summer
months while students are out of school is said to
disproportionately affect students from low-income backgrounds, and
due to COVID-19 educational disruptions this year, researchers from
the not-for-profit educational assessment provider, Northwest
Evaluation Association, project that students may return to school
in the fall with roughly 70% of the learning gains in reading
relative to a typical school year and less than 50% of the learning
gains in math.
To help provide on-site summer camp educational programming and
virtual learning opportunities for students in economically
distressed neighborhoods, Office Depot is donating $10,000 to each
of the following 16 Boys & Girls Club chapters:
- Boys & Girls Clubs of the Valley (Arizona)
- Boys & Girls Clubs of Central Orange Coast and San
Francisco (California)
- Boys & Girls Clubs of Metro Denver (Colorado)
- Boys & Girls Clubs of Broward County, Palm Beach County and
Central Florida (Florida)
- Boys & Girls Clubs of Metro Atlanta (Georgia)
- Boys & Girls Clubs of Chicago (Illinois)
- Boys & Girls Clubs of Southeastern Michigan (Michigan)
- Boys & Girls Clubs of the Twin Cities (Minnesota)
- Boys & Girls Clubs of Greater Charlotte (North
Carolina)
- Boys & Girls Clubs of Philadelphia (Pennsylvania)
- Boys & Girls Clubs of the Austin Area and Greater Tarrant
County (Texas)
- Boys & Girls Clubs of King County (Washington)
“Office Depot is proud to support non-profit organizations in
communities across the country to help provide underserved students
with access to educational tools and programs all summer long,”
said Gerry Smith, chief executive officer for Office Depot, Inc.
“Despite the new set of challenges brought on by these uncertain
times, we remain committed to investing in our youth and providing
resources that will help them to feel empowered, confident and
ready to tackle the new school year.”
In South Florida, where Office Depot’s headquarters is located,
the company will donate additional funds to each of the following
non-profit organizations for programming geared towards financial
literacy, college preparation and more:
- Greater Boca Raton Chamber of Commerce’s Golden Bell Education
Foundation
- Junior Achievement of South Florida
- Path to College
- United Way of Palm Beach County
- YMCA of South Palm Beach County
For more on how Office Depot strengthens communities, empowers
education and champions entrepreneurship, please visit
www.depotdifference.com.
About Office Depot, Inc.
Office Depot, Inc. (NASDAQ:ODP) is a leading provider of
business services, products and technology solutions to small,
medium and enterprise businesses, through a fully integrated B2B
distribution platform of approximately 1,300 stores, online
presence, and dedicated sales professionals and technicians.
Through its banner brands Office Depot®, OfficeMax®, CompuCom® and
Grand&Toy®, as well as others, the Company offers its customers
the tools and resources they need to focus on their passion of
starting, growing and running their business. For more information,
visit news.officedepot.com and follow @officedepot on Facebook,
Twitter and Instagram.
Office Depot is a trademark of The Office Club, Inc. OfficeMax
is a trademark of OMX, Inc. CompuCom is a trademark of CompuCom
Systems, Inc. Grand&Toy is a trademark of Grand & Toy, LLC
in Canada. ©2020 Office Depot, Inc. All rights reserved. Any other
product or company names mentioned herein are the trademarks of
their respective owners.
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