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GENERAL CONDITIONS
The program (the "Program") is held in 3 phases to determine which projects are going to be selected: Project Nomination, Project Evaluation and Voting.
Project Nomination: You can submit your project idea during the nomination phase between January 26th and February 21st, 2012.
Project Evaluation: The selection committee narrows down the list of eligible projects, and posts selected projects online (at www.homedepot.ca/community) for public voting.
Voting: You can vote for your favourite project during the Voting phase between April 4th and 24th, 2012. Projects with the highest number of votes will be completed by The Home Depot associate volunteers during a one-day timeframe in September 2012.
Eligible Participants:
Projects can be nominated by anyone who is a legal resident of Quebec over the age of 18, excluding officers, directors, employees, owners, principles or partners of The Home Depot Canada Foundation (the "Foundation"), The Home Depot of Canada Inc. (the "Home Depot") or any of The Home Depot stores in Canada, their immediate family members (spouse, child, parent, or siblings, regardless of where they reside) or members of the same household (whether related or not).
Recipient organization must be a registered charity with Canada Revenue Agency. No projects will be implemented without the express authorization or approval from the applicable beneficiary organization.
Eligible Project Ideas:
The Foundation provides resources and support to registered Canadian charitable organizations that support our commitment to the development of affordable housing and community improvement projects. Specifically, The Home Depot Canada Foundation is dedicated to building strong communities for Canadians in need.
Eligible projects will have the following characteristics:
- The recipient organization must be a registered charity with Canada Revenue Agency.
- Serve a community and/or population in need
- Have a positive impact on the community - specifically, it should lead to the improvement of an affordable housing complex or a public gathering space in your neighbourhood.
- Be self-contained and manageable - eligible projects must be capable of completion within a one-day time frame during the month of September 2012 by The Home Depot associate volunteers.
- Must be located in a community in Quebec where The Home Depot has a retail presence.
- Eligible projects should not require access to private property in order to be implemented.
- Must have the approval of an authorized officer or responsible person of the registered charity.
Examples of eligible projects include:
- Putting a fresh coat of paint on a shelter, low-income and/or transitional housing unit/complex
- Landscaping, planting, green space beautification or conservation project
- Improving storage space at a food bank
- Playground enhancement projects
The following are examples of ineligible projects:
- Requests that only benefit individuals (the Foundation is only permitted to support Canadian registered charities).
- Fundraising initiatives including, without limitation, charity benefits, dinners, exhibits, conferences and sporting events
- Nonprofit organizations that have been in existence for less than one year
- Public institutions including schools and daycares
- Courtesy or advertising campaigns in newspapers
- Endowments or capital campaigns
- Administrative or capital costs (for example, overhead, office equipment, salaries)
- Personal or group expeditions
- Projects that benefit a political party or political group
- Sports teams or other sponsorships
- Film, music, television, video and media production projects or funding for public broadcasting
- Projects deemed unsafe or dangerous as determined by the sole discretion of The Home Depot Canada and The Home Depot Foundation.
- Projects that require ongoing funding. This campaign is designed to support self-contained community improvement projects.
How to Nominate a Project Idea:
No purchase is necessary to participate. A purchase will not increase your submissions chance of success. The person whose e-mail address is tied to the submission is considered the "nominator."
Complete the following steps:
(1) Complete all fields of the online entry form provided on this website. No other means of submission will be accepted.
Use descriptive language and, where possible, include a photo to provide additional context.
(2) In the project description be sure to provide an estimate of how much your project will cost to complete.
(3) You must submit your project idea during the nomination phase between 6:00 a.m. ET January 26, 2012 and 11:59 p.m. ET February 21, 2012.
(4) You must comply with the submission guidelines below:
- You must submit your idea in one of Canada's two official languages (English or French).
- Your submission cannot include any mention of any specific individual, company, brands, or products(other than the registered charity affiliated with the project being nominated).
- Your submission cannot contain any trademarks or other material owned by a third party without the express written permission of that third party.
- Your submission, idea or association cannot be, endorse, or contain material or activity that is, offensive, obscene, or sexually suggestive, false or misleading, defamatory or disparaging about other people or companies, or endorse any form of hate or hate group, or discriminatory against any identifiable group. Any submission deemed by The Home Depot Canada or The Home Depot Canada Foundation in its or their, sole and absolute discretion to be in violation of this provision or otherwise not in keeping with the mandate of the Foundation will be deemed ineligible.
- An idea that does not meet the eligibility criteria outlined above will not be part of the selection process and will not be posted for voting.
- There is no limit on the number of unique project submissions you can make, however, duplicate submissions of the same project will not be considered.
All submissions become the property of the Foundation and will not be returned.
Who selects the nominated projects to be considered as finalists?
A selection committee comprised of representatives of The Home Depot Canada Foundation and a committee of selected associates from The Home Depot stores in Quebec will evaluate nominated projects [based on the criteria outlined below] to determine which projects will be selected and made available for public voting.
How will the nominated projects be evaluated?
Nominated projects will be evaluated based on a number of factors, including, but not limited to:
Community Impact - will the project make a measurable and meaningful difference to a population in need in the local community?
Volunteer Engagement - does the project offer ample and reasonable opportunities to involve The Home Depot associate volunteers?
Creativity - is the project unique? Does it involve a creative or innovative solution to a community need?
(A representative from the selection committee will contact you (by email) to let you know if your project has been selected to advance to the Voting Phase. Only nominators of projects that are selected to proceed to the Voting Phase will be contacted.)
Voting Phase:
After the selection committee narrows down the list of eligible projects, selected nominations will be placed on cestbeau.info for public voting.
All eligible participants (including persons who nominated a project and members of the registered charity are eligible to vote.
Voting will take place between 6:00 a.m. April 4th and 11:59 p.m. EST April 24th, 2012.
You are encouraged to tell your family, friends and neighbours to vote for your project. You can generate votes by posting it on Facebook, Twitter and other online communities.
There is a limit of one vote per person per day. Use of automated devices is prohibited; automated votes (including but not limited to votes submitted using any robot, script, macro, or other automated service) are not permitted and may result in disqualification.
Selected Projects:
The selection committee will tally the votes and select a minimum of 10 and a maximum of 22 projects to complete. The actual number of projects completed will depend on the number and quality of submissions received.
If there is a tie and only one of the projects can be completed the tie will be broken by a random draw conducted by an impartial member of the Foundation.
By May 17th, the projects receiving the highest number of eligible votes will be announced. The Home Depot associates (Team Depot) will then get in touch with each of the nominators and/or the charitable organization leading the project to outline the parameters of the project and schedule the project completion date.
Project Completion:
During the month of September, the projects receiving the highest number of eligible votes will be completed with support from local The Home Depot store associates as part of the Team Depot program.
Why renovate your community?
"Giving back" and "doing the right thing" are two of The Home Depot's core values. We live these values by using our skills, knowledge and resources to meet important community needs that help improve the places we all call home.
The Home Depot Canada Foundation
As the charitable arm of Canada's largest home improvement retailer, The Home Depot Canada Foundation brings together volunteerism, do-it-yourself expertise, product donation and monetary grants to support the development of sustainable homes and communities.
Our commitment to building healthy neighbourhoods allows us to meet important needs in the communities where The Home Depot Canada associates live and work. This includes supporting affordable housing and community improvement projects.
With the support of The Home Depot Canada associates, suppliers and customers across the country we are committed to making the communities we call "home" a better place to be.
General Conditions
The Foundation reserves the right to terminate, suspend or modify the Program, in whole or in part, at any time and without notice or obligation if, in The Foundation's sole opinion, any factor interferes with the proper conduct of the Program as contemplated herein.
The Foundation reserves the right in its sole discretion to disqualify any individual who tampers or attempts to tamper with the entry process, the operation of the Program and/or the Program Website, violates these guidelines, or acts with intent to annoy, abuse, threaten or harass any other person. WARNING: ANY ATTEMPT TO DELIBERATELY DAMAGE ANY WEBSITE ASSOCIATED WITH THIS PROGRAM OR UNDERMINE THE LEGITIMATE OPERATION OF THE PROGRAM IS A VIOLATION OF CRIMINAL AND CIVIL LAWS, AND THE HOME DEPOT CANADA FOUNDATION RESERVES THE RIGHT TO PROSECUTE AND SEEK DAMAGES TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW. In the event of a dispute as to the identity of the person who submitted any nomination, the authorized account holder of the e-mail address submitted at the time of submission will be deemed to be the entrant. The "authorized account holder" is the natural person assigned an e-mail address by an access provider, service provider, or other person or organization responsible for assigning e-mail addresses for the account associated with the submitted address.
The Foundation is not responsible for any lost, damaged, late, incomplete, fraudulent, illegible, or unidentified entries. Entrants agree to abide by these guidelines. Decisions of The Home Depot Canada, the Foundation, Team Depot and any/or any person participating in the selection or voting process will be final and binding on all matters pertaining to this Program. The Program is subject to all applicable federal, provincial and municipal laws. Void where prohibited. The Foundation reserves the right to correct any typographical, printing, computer programming or operator errors.
Selected projects may not be completed exactly as proposed in any nomination. The Foundation reserves the right to implement all or any portion of an entrants submission in any manner as determined in the Foundation, The Home Depot Canada, and/or Team Depot's sole discretion. Decisions of The Home Depot, the Foundation and/or Team Depot or any of their respective officers, directors, employees, or volunteers with respect to the implementation of any project are final and binding on all matters.
LIMITATIONS OF LIABILITY AND RELEASES
BY PARTICIPATING IN THIS PROGRAM, ENTRANTS AGREE THAT THE HOME DEPOT, THE FOUNDATION, AND THEIR RESPECTIVE PARENT, RELATED AND AFFILIATED COMPANIES, AND EACH OF THEIR RESPECTIVE OFFICERS, DIRECTORS, EMPLOYEES AND AGENTS (COLLECTIVELY, THE "RELEASES") HAVE NO LIABILITY WHATSOEVER FOR, AND SHALL BE HELD HARMLESS BY ENTRANTS AGAINST, ANY LIABILITY FOR ANY INJURIES, LOSSES OR DAMAGES OF ANY KIND (INCLUDING DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, CONSEQUENTIAL OR PUNITIVE DAMAGES) TO PERSONS OR PROPERTY RESULTING FROM THE PROGRAM, INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, PARTICIPATION IN THE PROGRAM. Some jurisdictions do not allow the exclusion or limitation of incidental or consequential damages, therefore such exclusions may not apply to you.
Without limiting the foregoing, the Releases, and any of their respective agencies, suppliers or contractors, shall not be responsible for: (a) any incomplete or inaccurate information that is caused by Program Website users, or by any of the equipment or programming associated with or utilized in the Program, or by any technical or human error which may occur in the processing of submissions in the Program; (b) lost, interrupted, or unavailable network, server, service provider, on-line systems, telephone networks or telephone lines, or any other connections; (c) the theft, destruction, loss or unauthorized access to, or alteration of, entries; (d) any problems with, or malfunctions or failures of, telephone networks or lines, computers or computer on-line systems, servers or providers, computer equipment, software, viruses or bugs; (e) garbled transmissions or miscommunications; (f) failure of any e-mail to be received by or from the Foundation or The Home Depot and/or Team Depot for any reason, including but not limited to traffic congestion on the Internet or at any website or combination thereof or technical incompatibility; (g) damage to a user's computer equipment (software or hardware) occasioned by participation or downloading of materials related to this Program; (h) printing, distribution, programming or production errors, and any other errors or malfunctions of any kind, whether human, mechanical, electronic or otherwise; or (i) technical, pictorial, typographical or editorial errors or omissions contained herein.