Oakwood University Wins $50K Home Depot - ReTool Your School Grant in National Competition
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Posted By: Reginald Culpepper on December 02, 2015 In May, Oakwood University won a Tier 1 grant of $50,000 in The Home Depot's Retool Your School competition. Representatives of the competition toured Oakwood's campus today, December 2, as well as to help install exercise equipment purchased from the winning grant. According to Home Depot officials, the judges liked Oakwood's grant proposal for a two-mile long circuit with outdoor exercise stations emphasizing the benefits of physical activity. The stations are a part of the Healthy Campus 2020 initiative that Oakwood officially launched this past August. The competition rules also encouraged participating schools to utilize social media to help with voting numbers. The Retool Your School competition is not new for Oakwood. In 2013, Oakwood won the Tier 1 grant of $50,000, which allowed the University to construct an outdoor pavilion by its Unity Pond. In 2014, Oakwood won the Campus Pride Grant, which allowed the University to enhance the Unity Pond area with an additional pavilion as well as additional benches and tables around the campus. "We thank everyone who voted, tweeted and posted images on Facebook that allowed us to win this grant," said George Johnson Jr., integrated marketing and public relations director of Oakwood University. "Truly the network that Oakwood has developed helped us to win and we wouldn't have been able to do this alone with just the amount of people we have here on our campus," he said. If you enjoyed this article, Join HBCU CONNECT today for similar content and opportunities via email! |
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Reginald Culpepper
President, Fulfillment and Web Services, HBCUCONNECT Clark Atlanta University class of 1998 Member Since September 2000 |
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