News & Updates
“Words & Music” Charity Book Launch November 8 at Fox Theatre
Tickets Go On Sale Saturday, September 19 at 10 a.m. All proceeds benefit S.A.Y. Detroit. (DETROIT– September 15, 2015) — Mitch Albom will host an evening of entertainment and storytelling to benefit S.A.Y Detroit and the launch of his newest novel The Magic Strings of Frankie Presto at the Fox Theatre on Sunday, November 8 […]
SAY Play is Hiring
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
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 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
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.
#NICEICEBABY: Grand Photos from the Grand Opening
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!
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
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
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
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 […]