Team Depot's April Volunteer Campaign

Two and a half million hours of sweat equity have flowed from Home Depot associates into American neighborhoods since 2011, across more than 27,000 completed projects that average out to five volunteer sites finished every single day. April is when that output peaks, and with the Spring Doing season already three days in, store leaders have 26 days left to get their teams on the board.

The Home Depot Foundation's 2026 spring campaign, titled "Orange Hearts, Green Thumbs: Celebrating Team Depot's Commitment to Community," runs through April 30 across thousands of communities nationwide. The initiative coincides with National Volunteer Month and represents Team Depot's highest-visibility period of the year. The program was formally established in 1993 after associates mobilized spontaneously following Hurricane Andrew the prior year; this April is its 33rd Spring Doing season. In 2024 alone, more than 56,000 associate volunteers completed nearly 2,500 projects, the strongest single-year output the Foundation has recorded.

The first step for any associate is to connect with the store's Community Captain. Every Team Depot location has a designated associate, appointed by store leadership, who plans all volunteer projects, recruits participants, and serves as the direct link between the store and the Foundation's field team. For stores without an active captain, the Foundation maintains a registration pathway for new captains through the Team Depot Toolbox, the program's central hub for project listings, grant applications, and training materials. District captains also run periodic Captain Huddles to coordinate multi-store projects and cross-recruit volunteers across a district.

Not every community service activity qualifies for Foundation support. Approved Team Depot projects must partner with a registered nonprofit organization or a government agency such as a parks department, fire department, or veterans' service organization. Once a qualifying partner is confirmed, the Community Captain can apply for a Foundation grant to cover materials, supplies, and project costs. Self-organized store events that skip the nonprofit partnership step do not qualify for grant funding. The current campaign's four focus areas are park and garden restoration, veteran housing repairs, neighborhood revitalization, and disaster-response follow-up work: all areas where associates with hands-on construction and landscaping knowledge contribute at a skilled level rather than simply showing up to haul debris.

For store managers, the practical pressure point is scheduling. The Spring Doing season sits directly on top of the company's Spring Starts promotional cadence, which means volunteer requests and peak weekend traffic will compete for coverage on the same calendar. The move is to identify interested associates now, map their preferred project dates against the promotional schedule, and work with the Community Captain to stage projects on lower-traffic days where possible. All projects carry standard safety requirements: pre-event briefings, tool use policies consistent with the company's standard operating procedures, and PPE compliance throughout. As the Foundation framed it, "these dedicated Home Depot associates give up their own time off to serve their neighbors," which means associates shoulder the personal cost of participation; the least a store can do operationally is make scheduling seamless on its end.

Pro desk associates have an additional reason to get involved. Contractor customers notice when their local store is running visible neighborhood improvement projects. The community credibility built through a Team Depot weekend can open more doors with local trades than a Pro mailer ever will.