The Home Depot Foundation has announced a donation of $1 million to support the relief, recovery and reconstruction efforts following the devastation caused by Hurricane Sandy. A substantial part of the donation has been disbursed immediately to three key organizations involved in the rehabilitation efforts, including the Red Cross, Team Rubicon, and Operation Homefront.

The American Red Cross has received $250,000 towards immediate disaster relief supplies and activities. Red Cross has received 15,000 pairs of leather cowhide work gloves, 5,000 flat or transfer shovels, and 5,000 metal, garden, stone and bow rakes as a part of its requested items for cleanup operations in New York and New Jersey. The amount of $250,000 is over and above the Foundation's annual commitment of $0.5 million to the disaster giving program of the Red Cross.

Team Rubicon has received $100,000 to deployed special teams of U.S. military veterans with unique skills to support the affected communities in the Northeast. Operation Homefront has received $150,000 towards its Emergency Relief Fund that provides food, clothing and temporary shelter to service members and their dependents in the affected regions.

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Vikas is a staff writer for the Sustainable Development news and editorial section on Justmeans. He is an MBA with 20 years of managerial and entrepreneurial experience and global travel. He is the author of "The Power of Money" (Scholars, 2003), a book that presents a revolutionary monetary economic theory on poverty alleviation in the developing world. Vikas is also the official writer for an international social project for developing nations "Decisions for Life" run in collaboration between the ILO, the University of Amsterdam and the Indian Institute of Management.

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