News & Updates
Busting Blight in Brightmoor One Block at a Time
One down, more than a dozen to go. Volunteers from A Time to Help spent last Saturday (Nov. 12) helping Motor City Blight Busters clear a city block of blight in the Brightmoor neighborhood on Detroit’s west side. More than 40 volunteers — including some new faces and a group from Oakland County Children’s Village […]
Seeing Clearly in the Heart of Detroit
Outfitting his clients with affordable specks, Rayford Frye is helping his community see more clearly right here in the heart of Detroit.
Serving Up Soup and Smiles at Motown Soup
October 15, 2016 — Nearly two dozen volunteers from A Time to Help gathered Saturday morning in the kitchen of Trinity Lutheran Church in Utica to help produce and package Motown Soup’s quality soups and gift boxes. All proceeds from the sale of the non-profit’s products benefits dozens of homeless shelters, soup kitchens and food […]
Meditation Works, The Power of Meditation Mobilized
Granting ten minutes of unplugged bliss, Jake Leider is taking meditation mobile right here in the heart of Detroit.
Bountiful Community Gardens in the Heart of Detroit
With a little planning and planting Jerry Ann Hebron has created a community and a garden right here in the heart of Detroit. Air Date: October 10, 2016
Kids Kicking Cancer with Power, Peace, and Purpose
Providing children with a sense of Power, Peace, and Purpose, Rabbi G and Michael Hunt are helping kids to kick cancer right here in the heart of Detroit.
Michigan Masons Make a Difference at S.A.Y. Play
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 […]
Urban farm yields bountiful time for ATTH volunteers
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 […]
S.A.Y. Play Dedicates Baseball Field to Judge Damon Keith
Honoring one of Detroit’s, and our nation’s, most distinguished civil rights heroes, the renovated field at S.A.Y. Detroit Play Center at Lipke Park was dedicated today as “The Honorable Damon J. Keith Baseball Field.” Judge Keith, Mitch Albom, and representatives from the Detroit Tigers Foundation, an affiliate of Ilitch Charities, and the Baseball Tomorrow Fund (BTF), […]
Detroit Water Ice Celebrates One-Year Anniversary
Detroit Water Ice Factory, the hottest destination for iconic dessert treats, celebrates its one-year anniversary on Thursday, August 4th. Free water ice will be given out between the hours of 11 AM and 2 PM (and scooped by Mitch Albom), to celebrate this milestone occasion, at the store’s flagship location, 1014 Woodward Avenue in downtown […]