Staples® Cause for Caring grant program helps associates who are experiencing severe financial hardship due to an emergency qualifying event, and as a result, do not have the ability to maintain basic monthly living expenses.
Download the Direct Grant Application Prep Pack and complete the application checklist. For associates in need of help obtaining new or temporary housing, please download our New Tenant/Temporary Housing Form.
Illness or injury
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FUNERAL
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Natural disaster
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Unemployment
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Homelessness
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Domestic abuse
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Military deployment
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COVID-19 job impact
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To ensure prompt processing of a Staples Cause for Caring grant, please gather the appropriate documents before submitting your application. The application is not complete until all relevant supporting documentation has been received. All qualifying events must be within a 6-month timeframe to be considered.
To assist associates or immediate family member (limited to spouse/domestic partner or dependents) who have encountered financial hardships for reasons beyond their control (illness or injury) with household expenses or travel expenses to appointments.
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Staples Cause for Caring does not provide funding for medical bills.
Available to assist those who have incurred the loss of an associate or immediate family member (limited to spouse/domestic partner, parent or dependents) if the associate is financially responsible for arrangements. An associate’s spouse/domestic partner may apply for assistance in the event of an associate’s death.
Note:
Staples Cause for Caring does not provide funding for medical bills.
Associate’s primary residence is severely damaged, destroyed or rendered unlivable by a localized natural disaster (fire, flood, tornado, hurricane, ice/wind/snowstorm, mudslide, etc.) or federally/state-declared natural disaster or terrorist attack, or associate is displaced from home and forced to pay for alternative housing.
Loss of a spouse’s job or associate’s second job due to a layoff or company closure within the past 6 months. Excludes Staples’ employment.
Associates in need of new housing due to:
Note: Associates requesting assistance as a result of the sale or foreclosure on their rented residence are required to submit proof of the sale or foreclosure including:
Associate, immediate family member or spouse/domestic partner who has encountered financial hardships after being deployed.
Associate or spouse who has been furloughed or received a reduction of hours due to coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19).