Focusing on their student’s abilities vs. disabilities, Mark and Deb Prentiss are stirring up a recipe for success right here in the heart of Detroit.
Air Date: March 2, 2017
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A Time to Help March 2017: COTS’ Bright Beginnings Child Development Center
Bright Beginnings serves families through COTS’ emergency shelter and long-term housing initiatives. Volunteers will be hosting a Family Fun Day to celebrate the families that COTS serves. Volunteers will help set up, design and run each station and clean up. Some of the games that volunteers will be helping with include potato sack races, a Jenga … Read more
Shakespeare Classics in the Heart of Detroit
Making it look easy, Sam White is answering Where for Art Thou Shakespeare right here in the heart of Detroit.
Air Date: February 23, 2017
Breaking Records, Helping Others at Gleaners
Gleaners Community Food Bank of Southeastern Michigan has been feeding hungry people and nourishing communities for years. On Saturday (Feb. 18), more than 30 volunteers with Mitch Albom’s A Time to Help initiative contributed to the effort. The volunteers — which included nearly a dozen National Honor Society students from nearby Fitzgerald High — gathered … Read more
Caring Through Coffee in the Heart of Detroit
Ten years of giving with no end in sight, Dan Dewey is bringing caffeinated happiness to the heart of Detroit.
Air Date: February 16, 2017
Love Has No Calories in Downtown Detroit
In a special Valentine’s Day treat for our neighbors in the Guardian Building (500 Griswold) and the Buhl Building (535 Griswold), we scooped FREE Detroit Water Ice in thanks for all the neighborhood love and support we receive in Campus Martius. If you missed your free scoop, try our D-Ice Water Ice, hot Philly Pretzels, … Read more
A Time to Help March 2017: COTS’ Bright Beginnings
Registration for our Feb. 18 project at Gleaners Community Food Bank in Warren is closed because we have reached the maximum number of volunteers. We have secured the date and location of our March A Time to Help Project. Mark your calendars now for March 25th. We’ll be at COTS/Bright Beginnings day care. Sign up for that … Read more
A Time to Help February 2017: Gleaners Community Food Bank
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 … Read more
Michigan Masons Give Their Time to Help Detroit Water Ice
Detroit — When the Michigan Masons and Michigan Masonic Charitable Foundation became large supporters of Mitch Albom’s S.A.Y. Detroit charities last fall, they stressed that their commitment would be more than financial. They proved that once again on Saturday, January 21, when nearly three dozen Masons and their families joined Albom at The Detroit Water … Read more
Morningside Neighborhood Gains Strength With Another Family
Two days before Christmas, Lillie Taylor and her three children received a gift that she hopes will last a lifetime: A place to call home.
Taylor smiled broadly on Friday as she received the keys to a newly refurbished house in the Morningside neighborhood on Detroit’s east side from Kisha Woods, director of Genesis House 2 at the Detroit Rescue Mission Ministries, as part of S.A.Y. Detroit’s Working Homes/Working Families charity.