Established in 1997 to galvanize volunteerism on a regular basis, A Time to Help stages monthly projects to aid the needy and promote unity in metro Detroit.
Since then, more than 200 monthly projects have been completed by thousands of volunteers, ranging from building houses, delivering meals, beautifying city streets, running adoption fairs, repairing homeless shelters, packing food, and hosting an annual Christmas party to a shelter for battered women.
Mitch Albom and WJR co-host Ken Brown lead each monthly project, usually held on Saturdays between 9AM – noon. Volunteers can sign up for one, two or all, and there are no requirements, except that, for most events, volunteers should be at least 18 years of age. Older teenagers can come if accompanied by at least one adult supervisor for every four of them.
Do you have a suggestion for a project, or have a question about volunteering? Contact us at atimetohelp.detroit@gmail.com.
A Time to Help Mother Batie’s Kitchen During Volunteer Month
Since Mother Batie’s Kitchen was first restored operationally and transformed in 2011, it has expanded under the care of her grandson Antwan Price to serve nearly 100 meals every day. It has also added free child care to help parents in its surrounding community.
A Time to Help volunteers will be returning after 13 years to once again assist with a spring spruce up for the play area of the daycare room, yard cleaning, and flower planting.
Note, this is the first project for our new volunteer coordinator Wendy Jackson, and we hope you will welcome her as project lead!
Event Date/Time: Saturday, April 20, 10:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m..
Volunteers Needed: 15
Location: Mother Batie’s Kitchen / United Sisters of Charity, 16339 Rosa Parks Blvd, Detroit, MI, 48203 | Map
Parking: Free street parking.
Attire/Other Info: Please dress for outdoor cleaning and gardening. Bring your own gardening gloves. Tools will be provided, but feel free to bring your own. Event is weather-permitting only and will be postponed if there is rain.
This is a registration-only event through Bloomerang Volunteer – please be sure to sign up and select the shift in STEP 2 of registration. Please don’t attend and unregister if you don’t feel well.
Sign up at Bloomerang Volunteer: https://app.initlive.com:443/JE/9ie6bvqu6ursut
Questions: wendy@saydetroit.org
NOTE: Volunteer event registration has moved to a new platform: Bloomerang Volunteer. This new platform will be used for all volunteer opportunities with SAY Detroit moving forward. Bloomerang Volunteer is a pretty robust platform and there’s a lot of cool little things we’ll be able to do together — and, it has a mobile app! If you’d like video overviews, you can watch this. If you like to dig into FAQs, you can get started here.
