Working Homes/Working Families
SAY Play is Hiring
September 11, 2015
WE ARE LOOKING FOR PART-TIME HELP WITH THE FOLLOWING POSITIONS: Administrative Assistant for the SAY Detroit Play Center Job Description Purpose: The Administrative Assistant is responsible for ensuring that all members and volunteers of the SAY Detroit Play Center have an exceptional environment when they arrive at the center. The center is designed to be a unique training facility in which young
Volunteers Sign Up
September 3, 2015
Rain outside, but good stuff in: That’s S.A.Y. Play Center academic advisor Jenell Mansfield encouraging a Wayne State social work student to sign up during the school’s volunteer fair today at Wayne State. Use our easy online application system to sign up today!
Safer Grounds For The S.A.Y. Play Center
August 17, 2015
August 15, 2015 – Detroit, MI – Fifty volunteers braved the heat and spent most of the morning pruning and removing large trees and shrubs from the grounds of the S.A.Y. Play Center in an effort to both beautify the campus and make it safer.
Notes for Notes Debuts Music Studio
August 14, 2015
DETROIT, AUGUST 12–Notes for Notes, a non-profit organization which builds, equips, and staffs after-school recording studios, announced the completion of the studio inside the S.A.Y. Detroit Play Center. Nashville record artist, and Michigan native Frankie Ballard was on hand for the unveiling.
August Project: Landscaping at S.A.Y. Play Center
August 10, 2015
August 15, 2015, 9:00 a.m. – 11:30 a.m. The Lipke Recreation Center will reopen as the S.A.Y. (Sports, Academics, Youth) Detroit Play Center after repairs and refurbishment. In partnership with SAY Detroit a 501(c) (3) non-profit, the city of Detroit, and Score7 Charitable Fund, the center will engage underserved youth in a unique approach to
#NICEICEBABY: Grand Photos from the Grand Opening
August 4, 2015
Detroit Mayor Mike Duggan, KEM, Nicole Curtis and Primo Water Ice owners John and Adrianna Adams joined Mitch Albom in celebrating the opening of Detroit Water Ice. Click on a photo to view larger:
S.A.Y. Detroit Gets Ready to D-Ice!
August 4, 2015
DETROIT… GET READY TO D-ICE! S.A.Y. DETROIT INTRODUCES SCRUMPTIOUS NEW DESSERT TO DETROIT! S.A.Y. DETROIT, ITS CHARITY PARTNER, DETROIT RESCUE MISSION MINISTRIES, ALONG WITH BEDROCK REAL ESTATE SERVICES/MERIDIAN HEALTH, AND GOODWILL INDUSTRIES OF GREATER DETROIT COMBINE EFFORTS TO OPEN CHARITABLE RETAIL OPERATION Detroit (August 4, 2015)– Detroit, a city known for its own iconic foods,
Parenting Takes a Village in the Heart of Detroit
June 26, 2015
Revitalizing the family unit, Sharlonda Buckman and the Detroit Parent network are building champions for today’s youth right here in the heart of Detroit.
Working Homes, Families Builds a Neighborhood
June 19, 2015
DETROIT — In a matter of weeks, Jesse White Sr. will be moving his family from their one-bedroom apartment into a three-bedroom house with a backyard and trees that are as old as its east side Detroit neighborhood. “This isn’t just a house, it’s a home,” said Chanel Roland-White, Jesse’s wife, who’s pregnant with the
First D.R.Y. Library Opens in the Philippines
June 19, 2015
A children’s library opened Friday in the central Philippines. But it symbolizes so much more than that. In November 2013, a super typhoon flattened areas of the country, killing more than 6,000 people and displacing thousands more. When author Mitch Albom visited the island nation three months later, touring schools where he saw tents and