Date/Time: Feb. 18, 2017 – 9 AM to 11:30 a.m. Project Description: Volunteers will be repackaging green beans for distribution, as well as sorting and packing other food-drive items. Project Location: Gleaners Community Food Bank of Southeastern Michigan, 24162 Mound Road, Warren, MI, 48091 (Between 9 Mile and 10 Mile Road; located directly behind the Salvation […]

The annual holiday party for shelter residents at The Salvation Army is A Time to Help’s largest volunteer effort of the year. Having a special gathering for homeless parents and their children is heartwarming for everyone involved — clients, volunteers and sponsors. With the help of a generous public, the A Time to Help holiday […]

Project Description: To provide a safe route for children around Samuel Gompers Elementary-Middle School in the Brightmoor neighborhood on Detroit’s west side. Volunteers will be removing brush and blight, raking and bagging leaves, and performing other general landscaping chores. Attire/Other Info: Please wear clothing suitable for working outdoors. Some materials will be provided, but volunteers […]

Project Description: Volunteers will be assembling soup and other dry goods mixes, as well as packaging and boxing them, at Motown Soup. All proceeds from the sale of the products benefits homeless shelters, soup kitchens and food pantries. Location: Motown Soup is located at 45160 Van Dyke Ave., Utica, MI. 48317 (corner of Hall Road […]

Project Description: Volunteers will be harvesting and processing produce, as well as cultivating and weeding beds and performing other general gardening chores, at the Capuchin’s 2.5-acre organic farm in Detroit. The garden provides tons of produce to the Capuchin Soup Kitchen each year. Event Date/Time: Sat., Sept. 17, 9 a.m.-noon. Location: The Earthworks farm is […]

Project Description: Volunteers will be weeding and performing general grounds clean-up throughout the Zoo. Volunteers will work in teams and be supervised by the Zoo’s landscape staff. Event Date/Time: Sat., July 9, 8:30-noon. Volunteers are asked to be at the Ford Education Center (Click Here for Map) by 8:30 a.m.; project begins at 9 a.m. […]

The Senate Theatre in Detroit is perhaps best known for housing one of the world’s largest Wurlitzer pipe organs. But it’s also home to a nonprofit group called “Detroit Theater Organ Society” – and the vintage southwest Detroit theatre (which opened in 1926) needs a helping hand from A Time to Help before it stages […]

Project Description: Volunteers will set out in two groups for activities to help Hamtramck welcome the summer months. One will be working along Joseph Campau Avenue planting annuals in planters along nine city blocks; another will be sprucing up Veteran’s Park, including painting the main pavilion and performing other light maintenance. Event Date/Time: Sat., May […]

Cass Community Social Services fights poverty and creates opportunity for Detroit’s most at-risk citizens. The nonprofit has been a leader in devising programs and creating jobs to enhance the lives of the homeless community, the disabled, and those who suffer from mental illness and substance abuse. Project Name: Cass Community Social Services Event Date/Time: April […]