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Higgins Park is Born!

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City of Detroit, S.A.Y. Detroit, and Cooper Standard Collaborate to Construct Community Playground, Strengthen Neighborhood. DETROIT, MI — October 11th. In a continuing effort to revitalize city neighborhoods and beautify the community, the City of Detroit teamed with the Cooper Standard Foundation and S.A.Y. Detroit’s Working Homes/Working Families to build a playground at Higgins Park. … Read more

A Time to Help October 2017: Westside Cultural & Athletic Club

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Project Description:  Volunteers will be working primarily outside performing general clean-up and light landscaping around the home base of a nonprofit supported by S.A.Y. Detroit. Chores include the removal and trimming of bushes and overgrowth; raking leaves; weed-whacking and trash pick up. Another team will be working in the basement removing items, cleaning and organizing. … Read more

S.A.Y. Detroit Celebrates DRMM Graduation with Giveaways

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Mitch Albom was on hand to represent S.A.Y. Detroit at the Detroit Rescue Mission Ministries graduation ceremony on August 25th. The annual graduation ceremony is for DRMM residents who have successfully completed their program. At this year’s event, two families were surprised with new homes, and another two families were surprised with new vehicles. Albom presented one … Read more

A Time to Help September 2017: S.A.Y. Detroit Family Health Clinic

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Project Description: Volunteers will assist S.A.Y. Detroit staff in hosting “Healthy Food = Healthy Women’’ — a free women’s health fair and open house at the S.A.Y. Detroit Family Health Clinic. Volunteers will help set up; serve a continental breakfast; distribute free items and information; and assist in giving clinic tours. Event Date/Time: Saturday, September … Read more

It Was a Summer of Success at S.A.Y. Play

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S.A.Y. Detroit Play Center‘s “Summer of Success” was an application-only summer camp devoted to promoting campers’ social and emotional learning and physical health. The morning health and wellness programming addressed the building of five core competencies — self-awareness social awareness self-direction decision-making relationship building around S.A.Y. Play’s  4 core values: LOVING, HARD WORK, EXCELLENCE, RELATIONSHIPS. Each … Read more

Touring a Special Center Devoted to Michigan’s Veterans

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One of the first projects funded by S.A.Y. Detroit after its founding in 2006 was a new commercial kitchen at the Michigan Veterans Foundation. Eleven years later, Mitch Albom joined MVF Executive Director Tyron Chatman on a tour of the new Detroit Veterans Center (4626 Grand River, Detroit), home to 104 veteran residents. In addition … Read more

S.A.Y. Detroit Play Center Awarded FIRST Grant

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S.A.Y. Detroit is proud to announce that the S.A.Y. Detroit Play Center has again been chosen as a recipient of a FIRST STEM Equity Community Innovation Grant. The annual grants are given to underserved and underrepresented communities to support the development of new, innovative approaches to address equity, inclusion and diversity inequalities in STEM (science, … Read more