Domtar, Office Depot® Charitable Partnerships Support Education

The Office Depot Start Proud! program is one of Domtar's key charitable partnerships supporting education. Image includes large group of people (teachers, representatives from Office Depot and Domtar) in an office supply store holding a check to Independence Elementary School for $5,000 US.
BY: Nicholas.Pearson

Since its inception in 2018, Domtar has been a proud supporter of Start Proud!®, Office Depot’s signature back-to-school philanthropic initiative. The program is one of several Domtar charitable partnerships that help foster brighter beginnings for schools in underserved communities, ensuring students, parents and teachers nationwide have the supplies they need to start the school year confident, prepared and proud.

Access to quality educational resources can make all the difference in achieving academic success, and at Domtar, we’re committed to making this access possible through strategic collaborations that benefit schools across the country. Recently, we’ve expanded our Office Depot® charitable partnerships to provide more support for schools, students and educators.

Supply Donations Make a Difference

In addition to Start Proud!®, we collaborate with Office Depot on other educational initiatives to help teachers and school administrators get the supplies they need to keep school going — without reaching into their own pockets.

Every Office Depot® OfficeMax® location raises funds, in-store and online, to support a Title I public elementary, middle or high school in the store's local community. To help amplify the impact, Domtar exclusively sponsored four of these school partnerships over winter break. We also hosted teacher shopping events to help teachers restock, reset and replenish supplies for the new semester.

Participating locations received $20,000 in Office Depot merchandise credit to support their unique needs in places like:

    • Palm Beach, Florida
    • Austin, Texas
    • Wake County, North Carolina
    • San Bernardino, California

The geographic areas selected were identified as strategic locations for where our partners do business in Office Depot OfficeMax store locations and through contracted school district customers with ODP Business Solutions.

Teachers are often the unsung heroes in education—going above and beyond the classroom to ensure their students are provided for. To celebrate teachers and share how paper can be the fibers that keep us connected, with an opportunity for creativity on every blank page, Domtar joined Office Depot OfficeMax to surprise 20 teachers across the country.

Domtar mailed curated packages containing a variety of our Xerox® Paper products and other critical classroom essentials, such as printers, writing instruments, organization tools and Office Depot OfficeMax merchandise cards, to teachers as a way to show our gratitude and appreciation for their commitment to the classroom.

“These charitable partnerships are about more than providing school supplies. They are an investment and celebration of education, while bringing optimism and enthusiasm,” says Rosalind Streater, a senior account manager with Domtar. “Through these programs, we are supporting children, educators and the community throughout the academic year.”

Charitable Partnerships Help Drive Student Success

Domtar is making a tangible difference in partner markets by providing supplies to Title I schools. We know the critical role that quality materials play in the classroom experience. Our contributions, from notebooks to art supplies, help ensure that students have what they need to learn and thrive.

Learn more about some of our other education initiatives and charitable partnerships:

Find how to request a community investment on Domtar.com.
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