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A Time to Help November 2016: Motor City Blight Busters

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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 … Read more

Michigan Masons Make a Difference at S.A.Y. Play

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It was a busy and exciting morning at the S.A.Y. Detroit Play Center as Mitch Albom and the Michigan Masons Charitable Foundation announced a 10-year, multimillion dollar grant for S.A.Y. Detroit in what may be the single largest commitment to S.A.Y. Detroit, and to S.A.Y. Play, yet received. In honor of this gift, Detroit Mayor Mike Duggan … Read more

A Time to Help October 2016: Motown Soup

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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 … Read more

Urban farm yields bountiful time for ATTH volunteers

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Intermittent rain showers failed to dampen the spirit – or work ethic – of nearly two dozen A Time to Help Volunteers who participated in Saturday’s (Sept. 17) project at the Capuchin Soup Kitchen’s Earthworks Urban Farm on Meldrum Street in Detroit. Volunteers picked produce and performed other gardening chores inside a greenhouse, while another … Read more