News & Updates
Holiday Party for Denby Shelter a Hit
On Saturday, December 6, the annual A Time to Help holiday party for shelter residents overflowed with good food, fun activities, and touching moments.
Housing For Homeless Vets
November 8 – Highland Park, Michigan – In a project befitting the weekend before Veterans Day, A Time to Help volunteers joined Mitch to prime the walls of several rooms in a three-story building the Detroit Rescue Mission Ministries (DRMM) is rehabbing for homeless vets.
Stocking Up For Motown Soup
October 18 – Utica, Michigan – More than 60 A Time To Help volunteers that included 20 walk-ins joined Mitch Albom to work in tandem with members of Trinity Lutheran Church to package soup, cookie, and cornbread mixes that will be sold by local charity Motown Soup in order to help those in need.
Time to Help LifeBUILDERS
Despite unseasonably chilly weather, over 30 A Time to Help volunteers gathered on Saturday, September 13 to help with yard rehab with LifeBUILDERS.
Working Mom Gets Help Sprucing Up New Home
June 21 – Highland Park, MI – Nearly 40 volunteers worked alongside members of Highland Park’s Revival Tabernacle Church to clean up a house that will soon become home to a working mom and her two kids.
Making a House a Home
May 31 – Southfield – More than two dozen A Time To Help volunteers spent their Saturday morning sprucing up a house that is home to several special needs adults.
Community Center Clean Up
Ravendale – April 26 – Fifty volunteers from A Time to Help worked to haul debris and rearrange desks, tables, and cabinets at the future site of the new Ravendale Community Center located on Outer Drive in Detroit.
Detroit Charities Rewarded
DETROIT, March 26 – More than a dozen Detroit charities were grateful recipients of more than $400,000 in donations distributed from Mitch Albom’s “S.A.Y. (Super All Year) Detroit Radiothon.” The monies were collected in a single 15-hour broadcast last December at the Somerset Collection in Troy. Albom handed out 14 oversized checks at a ceremony […]
Food Bank Restocked
This past Saturday, March 22, Time To Help monthly volunteers came out in record numbers to help sort more than 20,000 pounds of food to be distributed to Detroit’s needy by Gleaners Food Bank of Southeastern Michigan.
Christmas at the Denby Center
Adopting homeless children and their parents living in shelters for one day is one of Time to Help’s most cherished activities. The residents of Denby Center are enormously touched by the generosity of volunteers and sponsors. Having a special party in their honor with tons of needed gifts, food, arts and crafts, games, Santa, and more is […]