SWOT Analysis: The Home Depot

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The Home Depot mission has the vision, and ethical framework, to be a major contributor to all of many causes above. Two of their values are giving back to our community and doing the right things. On the website doing the right things is quoted a, "doing the right thing" instead of just "doing things right".(Home 2016) They continually do above and beyond works in the community by helping with building project that donating equipment to help build and repairs homes and shelters in many low income neighborhood.
The Home Depot foundation has many success stories of their contribution to the homeless and veterans One of their project is called Teens Depot where they help with taking of the yards, painting taking teen kids along with adult
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They are built for this type of program from the mission to the merchandise of the store. Employees at the management level are trained to look for ways to help veteran, homeless and low income. Conversation held with their staff show they have found ways to impart their vision and mission to their employee. Becoming a force in a major issue in our society would help establish a better name
Sears has not had much opportunity to really give much to the community because they have been in the red in profit earning for a while. They have not been big in any kind of community evolvement but are more devoted to energy saving. In 2015 they were recognized with the Energy Star Partner of the Year Sustained Excellence Award, they have donated 1.75 million dollars to St Jude children hospital. In 2014, more than 5.3 million ENERGY STAR certified products were sold through Sears and Kmart (Hutchinson 2015).
Sears has shown in the past they are committed to the well being of the community, unfortunately it has fallen upon hard and dark time which has crippled it ability to do as much as it could for social causes. My study of the health of this corporation has not brought any good news. While upon first study and surveys I believe I saw a company that was destined for a comeback studies have shown a company that is on the verge of flat
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In 2015 they introduced the Small Business Economic Mobility Initiative. It has been established to help non profit organization be established and becoming a helpful part of our communities (Sam’s Club 2016). It has made a name for itself by giving grant to community and helping create jobs through growth. They also encourage member to volunteer to help with homeless gear, which they use to help cloth and support homeless. They would probably not do well with the protecting, forests, rivers and oceans. Unlike The Home Depot its doesn’t have the resources to head up a program unless they decide to hire an expert to head it up and with the volunteering and grant program they have it would spread them pretty thin. Helping veterans would allow them to just expand a vision of their already started Homeless gear program. They would just need to change the concentration to veterans. I would not want them to forget other homeless but put a special section toward

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