News & Updates
Painting With A Mission For Women in Recovery
In a span of three hours, 25 volunteers transformed the walls of the main hallway of the Detroit Rescue Mission Ministries’ women treatment facility from stark white to pretty in pink.
A Time to Help Creates Educational Kits at Arts & Scraps
Led by Mitch Albom and his radio show partner, Ken Brown, nearly 40 volunteers spent a Saturday morning at the Arts & Scraps Warehouse in Detroit.
Success Marks the First A Time to Help Project Of The Year
The final tally was impressive: 1,281 soup mixes and 334 spice bags. S.A.Y. Detroit’s army of volunteers held their first project of 2018 at Motown Soup in Utica.
20th Christmas Party for shelter residents and children a holiday hit
More than 80 A Time to Help volunteers helped make Mitch Albom’s annual S.A.Y. Detroit/The Salvation Army Christmas Party for shelter residents and their children a morning to remember.
A Helping Hand For Westside Cultural & Athletic Club
A labor of love: for more than 40 years, Erica Wright has directed her charity — and its mission of guiding young people — out of her home near West Side Academy in Detroit.
S.A.Y. Clinic Celebrates Residents, Attracts New Patients, at Health Fair
The parking lot just outside the doors of the S.A.Y. Detroit Family Health Clinic was transformed into a vibrant gathering spot for the community for “Healthy Food = Healthy Women.”
Backyard Fun at Angels’ Place
For 25 years, Angels’ Place has provided residential homes, community living, support and day programs for persons with developmental disabilities.
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 […]
Spreading Rocks – And Fellowship – At The Detroit Zoo
Royal Oak — As scores of patrons waited in line Saturday (May 20) to visit the Polk Penguin Conservation Center, more than two dozen A Time to Help Volunteers made their way behind the building to face the project that awaited them at the Detroit Zoo: Spreading thousands of pounds of landscaping rocks. How’s that […]
Tiny Homes, Big Hearts at Cass Community
The painters were on rooftops and ladders. The other crew members filled a dumpster with debris that had been littering a two-block area around Cass Community Social Services’ campus in Highland Park. The common thread was that they were all volunteers — more than two dozen strong — and all members of Mitch Albom’s A […]