News & Updates
S.A.Y. Detroit Celebrates DRMM Graduation with Giveaways
Mitch Albom was on hand to represent S.A.Y. Detroit at the Detroit Rescue Mission Ministries graduation ceremony on August 25th. The annual graduation ceremony is for DRMM residents who have successfully completed their program. At this year’s event, two families were surprised with new homes, and another two families were surprised with new vehicles. Albom presented one […]
Touring a Special Center Devoted to Michigan’s Veterans
One of the first projects funded by S.A.Y. Detroit after its founding in 2006 was a new commercial kitchen at the Michigan Veterans Foundation. Eleven years later, Mitch Albom joined MVF Executive Director Tyron Chatman on a tour of the new Detroit Veterans Center (4626 Grand River, Detroit), home to 104 veteran residents. In addition […]
Electrician Lends a Hand At Detroit Water Ice
DETROIT — Doug Watson isn’t a carpenter by trade—he’s a longtime electrician at The Conti Corporation—but he raised his hand anyway when he heard that S.A.Y. Detroit needed some work done at its Detroit Water Ice Factory in downtown Detroit. The request: Install a third row of trim designed to hold a slew of celebrity […]
Praise for Westside Cultural’s Erica Wright
Erica Wright’s eyes were rimmed with tears as he spoke. S.A.Y. Detroit was visiting Wright’s summer session for a lunchtime pizza party at her Westside Cultural & Athletic Club nonprofit on a recent Thursday when Derrick R. Coleman paid her a surprise visit. Nearly 40 years ago, Coleman was a 6-year-old boy on Detroit’s west […]
TV Donation to S.A.Y. Play Center Spearheaded by Michigan Masons
S.A.Y. Detroit is proud of its partnership with the Michigan Masonic Charitable Foundation. That’s why a friend of the Michigan Masons is a friend of S.A.Y. Detroit!The staff and students at the S.A.Y. Play Center at Lipke Park this week were thrilled to receive a flat screen television and sound system that was donated by […]
S.A.Y. Detroit and Cooper Standard Join Forces Again at Morningside Community Park
S.A.Y. Detroit teamed up once again with the Cooper Standard Foundation to expand the playground it built back in 2016. It is the same eastside Detroit community where Working Homes/Working Families has rebuilt and given away 9 homes to needy families. Dozens of employees from Cooper Standard returned to the Morningside neighborhood to add another […]
S.A.Y. Play Center Gets Spruced Up
When the S.A.Y. Detroit Play Center at Lipke Park reopens after the Fourth of July, the students enrolled for the summer session will enjoy a fresh start — in more ways than one. Nearly 40 A Time to Help volunteers spent last Saturday morning (June 24) giving the inside of the facility a scrub-down, while […]
Pop-up DWIF Up & Running Thanks to DMCII
Bloomfield Hills — If you happen to stop by the Detroit Water Ice Factory’s new pop-up location this summer at the Franklin Cider Mill, you’ll see the handy work of your Detroit Muscle Crew II. All you have to do is take a look around. The scoop: A team of DMCII members came together shortly before […]
DMC Update 4 from St. Anthony’s: Phase 1 Completed; Carpenters, painters needed for Phase 2
DETROIT — It has been a few weeks since your last Detroit Muscle Crew II update about the work being done at the Cathedral of St. Anthony in Detroit, and it’s time to get you up to speed. And give you major plaudits. And ask for more help. As you’ve been reading since mid-spring, the […]
DMC Update 3 from St. Anthony’s: Skilled Tradespeople Come Together
DETROIT/MAY 12 – Only when the church bells rang out at noon did the Detroit Muscle Crew II team of volunteers take a break. The crew spent the day on Friday volunteering their labor at the Cathedral of St. Anthony on Detroit’s east side replacing and installing more than a dozen glass block windows around […]