The International Franchise Association (IFA) Educational Foundation announced the winners of its inaugural Franchising Gives Back Awards, who were honored at a special event in\u00a0Washington, D.C., on September 28, 2015. Your local CertaPro Painters of Columbus team\u00a0took the Gold Award under their Veteran category for Franchising Gives Back.<\/p>\n
“Support Our Veterans Award<\/b>\u00a0\u2014\u00a0CertaPro Painters<\/b>\u00a0\u2014 CertaPro Painters kicked off a campaign to support Homes for Our Troops (HFOT), a privately funded nonprofit organization building specially adapted, mortgage-free homes nationwide for the most severely injured veterans from\u00a0Iraq<\/span>\u00a0and\u00a0Afghanistan<\/span>. CertaPro became one of HFOT’s national sponsors, committing to raising\u00a0$200,000<\/span>\u00a0in funds and donations of its painting services by the end of 2014. CertaPro Painters exceeded its goal by raising$260,000<\/span>\u00a0and an additional\u00a0$160,000<\/span>\u00a0through in-kind donations.”<\/p>\n You can read more about the foundation and other award winners here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The International Franchise Association (IFA) Educational Foundation announced the winners of its inaugural Franchising Gives Back Awards, who were honored at a special event in\u00a0Washington, D.C., on September 28, 2015. Your local CertaPro Painters of Columbus team\u00a0took the Gold Award under their Veteran category for Franchising Gives Back. “Support Our Veterans Award\u00a0\u2014\u00a0CertaPro Painters\u00a0\u2014 CertaPro PaintersRead the full article <\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":1,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","format":"standard","categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-356","community","type-community","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-community"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/certapro.com\/albany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/community\/356","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/certapro.com\/albany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/community"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/certapro.com\/albany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/community"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/certapro.com\/albany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/certapro.com\/albany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=356"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/certapro.com\/albany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/community\/356\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/certapro.com\/albany\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/certapro.com\/albany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=356"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/certapro.com\/albany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=356"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/certapro.com\/albany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=356"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}