In 2024, Alabama A&M University was named a winner in The Home Depot Retool Your School (RYS) program for the fourth year in a row. Thanks to 500,000+ unique votes AAMU receive a $100,000 campus improvement grant during the 2024 campaign. Ebony Magazine recently featured AAMU’s 4-peat success as a multi-year winner of the campaign that supports HBCU campus improvements around the nation.
Last year’s AAMU win signified the passion of the Alabama A&M community, as AAMU garnered 517,146 total votes – the second most of all 67 competing institutions. In 2021 and 2022, Alabama A&M secured the first prize $75,000 campus improvement grant. In 2023, as The Home Depot raised the stakes to offer more resources to competing HBCUs, AAMU won a first prize grant worth $150,000 in campus improvements.
Since 2009, the Retool Your School Program has provided over $9.2 million in grants that allow HBCUs to make sustainable improvements to their campuses. The Home Depot has grown the Retool Your School Campus Improvement Grant Program to a total grant pool to $2M awarded between 30 HBCUs. 2024 marked AAMU’s sixth win in the program’s 15-year history.
Past AAMU RYS Wins:
2024 – $100,000 (Second Place)
2023 – $150,000 (First Place)
2022 – $75,000 (First Place)
2021 – $75,000 (First Place)
2019 – $50,000 (First Place)
2012 – $25,000 (Campus Pride Award)
