The INSIDER - VOLUME 18 SPRING/SUMMER 2022

On March 28, the 2022 Home Depot Retool Your School grant competition concluded. Over the course of the 28 - day competition, Texas College organically amassed 702,810 votes, which successfully positioned the College in second place to earn a campus improvement grant of $50,000. This year’s success marks the fourth Home Depot Retool Your School grant awarded to Texas College; the College earned a $30,000 grant in 2021 from Home Depot, which was used to renovate the President’s Living Room patio in the Willie Lee Glass Building as an outdoor recreational gathering space for alumni, students, faculty, staff, and friends of the College. To achieve victory in this year’s competition, Texas College and the Texas College National Alumni Association (TCNAA) collaboratively and strategically employed a multitude of efforts to engage and urge stakeholders to vote. Through varied daily initiatives and accountability measures, Texas College effectively and significantly increased individual participation in the 2022 campaign. With this expansion of engaged voters, the College appreciably amplified the securement of votes. The growth in votes for the College is colossal, as evidenced on Day 19 of the competition when 2022’s vote total reached 383,000 votes, surpassing the entire 2021 vote total of 382,999 votes. This milestone is undoubtedly significant and further illustrates the strategic commitment to a successful Retool Your School campaign for 2022. To demonstrate Texas College’s dedication this year, it should be noted that the 2022 competition did not offer bonus challenge votes as it did in 2021’s competition, in which 185,000 bonus votes were offered through the completion of weekly challenges; of the 185,000 bonus challenge votes offered, Texas College accumulated 175,000 votes. Thus, given 2022’s challenge absence of bonus challenge votes, the organic accumulation and sizable increase in votes is indicative of the College’s and TCNAA’s employment of successful strategies. This Herculean feat is expounded upon when consideration is given to institutional size, which the competition accounts for through the use of “clusters” to separate institutions by their enrollment size. RETOOL YOUR SCHOOL Jake Martin, Chief Marketing & Communications Officer, is presented the grant award at the 2022 Home Depot Retool Your School Winners' Announcement Ceremony in Atlanta, Georgia, on Tuesday, April 26, 2022.

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