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The RONA Foundation will kick off its month-long Home Sweet Home campaign Sept. 1 to raise funds to revitalize the living environments and facilities of selected local charities serving people in need.
In Southwestern Ontario donations are being collected at the Windsor East, Leamington, Chatham, Sarnia and Wallaceburg stores.
Customers will be invited to donate to support a local cause. Online shoppers will also have the chance to participate by making a donation when shopping on rona.ca.
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“Our in-store and distribution centre teams are inspired by this timely cause and they’re motivated because each team chooses the local organization it wants to support,” said Catherine Laporte, chair of the RONA Foundation Board of Directors and senior vice-president, Marketing and Customer Experience at RONA.
“Some non-profits sometimes find it harder to raise donations because they don’t have the infrastructure of a big national organization behind them. That, we’ve got.”
The proceeds collected at Windsor East will support Charity House and Brentwood Recovery Home. In Leamington, all donations will be given to the Hospice of Windsor and Essex County.
The Chatham Kent Women’s Centre will receive the proceeds from the Chatham and Wallaceburg Stores. Sarnia is collecting for Habitat for Humanity Sarnia (Lambton).
In total, the campaign will support nearly 150 Canadian non-profits across Canada.
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