News & Updates
Life-Saving Dental Care at S.A.Y. Detroit Family Health Clinic
The S.A.Y. Detroit Family Health Clinic continues to expand offerings to serve the underserved through a new alliance with the recently-formed, community-based dental team from Covenant Community Care. Students from the University of Detroit Dental School, under the direction of Dr. Heidi Hudson, the director of the community based team, are reaching out to serve […]
Volunteers Partner with Motor City Blight Busters
Project: Motor City Blightbusters Project Details: Motor City Blight Busters is a Detroit non-profit dedicated to the stabilization of our Detroit neighborhoods. Since 1988, they have been a positive catalyst for Detroit neighborhoods, families, and volunteers by tearing down blighted and abandoned homes, cleaning up dump sites, painting exisiting houses, cleaning up neighborhoods, building new […]
A Time to Help Joins Habitat for Humanity to Clean Up Morningside Commons
Habitat for Humanity Detroit Blight Blitz! Volunteers helped Habitat Detroit and its community partners clean up the Morningside Commons neighborhood on Detroit’s east side. They boarded up vacant homes, removed debris, trimmed hedges and trees, and mowed grass. They concentrated on the streets between the two local elementary schools in our efforts to ensure children […]
Spring Planting and Clean Up at the DTE Energy Gardens
In yesterday’s event, A Time to Help volunteers partnered with DTE Energy Gardens in Allen Park, MI to put in tomato stakes, plant early season crops, spread compost, and set up walkways. The DTE Energy Gardens Project is a joint venture between DTE Energy, Gleaners Community Food Bank of Southeastern Michigan (Gleaners) and many volunteers in […]
A Home in the Midst of Heartbreak
This afternoon, Banika Jones walked through the doors of a refurbished home on Custer Street in Detroit to the cheers of onlookers. Banika was thrown into the public spotlight in January when she suffered a mother’s worst nightmare–the disappearance of her two year-old daughter, Bianca. Last month, the girl’s father was charged with her murder. […]
Home Sweet Home for Texana Hollis
The smell of fresh-baked cookies filled the air this afternoon as Texana Hollis, the 101-year old woman who was evicted last fall, finally returned to her home of sixty years. The house had received a complete makeover after the HUD had deemed the conditions unlivable. Made possible by the efforts of Mitch Albom and SAY […]
Mother Batie’s Kitchen Gets New Name, Look, and Life
Last fall, through The Heart of Detroit and a stirring article in the Free Press, Mitch introduced us to Mother Maude Batie. A pillar of the community, she has been serving hot meals to those in need for over 40 years. And today, with the help of local charities–and your generosity–Mother Batie’s Kitchen received a […]
A New Home and Car for Dale Jones and his family
A new home and a car to Dale Jones and his family through the Working Homes/Working Families program
Pastor Henry Covington Memorial Concert
The memorial concert honoring the late Pastor Henry Convington will be held December 23, 2011 at 8:00 p.m. at I Am My Brother’s Keeper Church in Detroit.
Special Christmas Home Makeover
PROJECT: A family in need in the community will be surprised this Christmas when they are given the keys to a home through the “Working Homes for Working Families” Program at Detroit Rescue Mission Ministries! The home will be ready on Saturday for our Time to Help volunteers to unload the truck full of furniture, beds, […]