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 […]

The Empowerment Plan is a Detroit-based nonprofit dedicated to serving the homeless community. The organization hires homeless parents from local shelters to become full-time seamstresses so they can earn a stable income, find secure housing, and gain back their independence for themselves and for their families. The individuals that The Empowerment Plan hires are trained […]

Friends, neighbors, volunteers! We are wonderfully surprised to have run out of volunteer slots 2 weeks before our event. But don’t worry, to help meet the demand for everyone we’ve added 10 more slots for February 20th’s A Time to Help at Forgotten Harvest. Sign up today! Visit atimetohelp.org/volunteer to register. Questions, comments, concerns? Email us at atimetohelp.detroit@gmail.com

Forgotten Harvest is a food rescue organization that rescues surplus, prepared and perishable food and donates it to emergency food providers. Volunteers will be re-packing nutritious food into family size portions destined for the table of those in need.  Volunteers will also help with clean-up of work area at end of shift. Date/Time:  Feb 20, […]

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

November 21, 2015, 9:00 a.m. – 11:30 a.m. Arts & Scraps is a Detroit nonprofit that uses recycled industrial materials to help people of all ages and abilities think, create and learn. Arts & Scraps serves 275,000 children and recycles 28 tons annually. Project Location:    Arts & Scraps | 16135 Harper | Detroit, MI 48224 | Map […]