May 16, 2016 | A Hole in the Roof, News + Updates, SAY Detroit
It’s not everyday that you’ll find Fr. Gary Wright kneeling beside a concrete pit in the basement of his 168-year-old church. But this was a special occasion. Wright wanted to show a visitor exactly how the proceeds from a $5,000 donation from Mitch Albom’s Hole in...
Jun 19, 2015 | A Hole in the Roof, DRY Libraries, News + Updates
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...
Apr 23, 2015 | A Hole in the Roof, News + Updates
When Charlotte Coleman submitted an application earlier this year to A Hole in the Roof Foundation on behalf of Christ Temple Apostolic Church, she was stunned by the immediacy of the response. “Let me tell you, normally that doesn’t happen,” said Coleman, chairperson...
Mar 26, 2014 | A Hole in the Roof, A Time to Help, Dream Scholars, News + Updates, SAY Detroit, SAY Detroit Clinic, Working Homes/Working Families
DETROIT, March 26 – More than a dozen Detroit charities were grateful recipients of more than $400,000 in donations distributed from Mitch Albom’s “S.A.Y. (Super All Year) Detroit Radiothon.” The monies were collected in a single 15-hour broadcast last December...
Feb 24, 2014 | A Hole in the Roof, DRY Libraries, News + Updates
BESTSELLING AUTHOR MITCH ALBOM LAUNCHES INITIATIVE IN PHILIPPINES TO REBUILD LIBRARIES AFTER TYPHOON YOLANDA Engages dozens of famous writers – including Stephen King, Amy Tan, Jeff Kinney, JK Rowling, John Grisham, Nicholas Sparks, John Green & more –...