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Detroit Goes Green

October 21, 2013 by saydetroit

A Time to Help Volunteers partnered with The Greening of Detroit and the Detroit Water and Sewage Department to bring together over 160 volunteers on Saturday, October 19, 2013. Volunteers planted more than 120 trees along Pierson and Braile from 7 Mile Road to Pembroke Avenue.

Celebrating A Time to Help: Fifteen Years

August 18, 2013 by saydetroit

For 15 years….
You’ve volunteered, scrubbed floors and painted walls,
You’ve planted trees and boxed up food,
You’ve torn down crumbling walls.
But now’s the time to take a break and ponder what you’ve done,
It’s party time for A Time to Help, so please enjoy some fun!

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Annual A Time to Help Christmas Party

December 1, 2012 by saydetroit

Save the date: December 8, 2012 | 8:00am – 12:30pm

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 the shelters are enormously touched by the generosity of volunteers and sponsors. Help make the annual Adopt a Shelter as successful as last year’s. Volunteers will help in decorating, setting up the gift shop, serving food, crafts and games.

Volunteers Pack More than 1 Million Meals

October 17, 2012 by saydetroit

On Saturday, October 6, A Time to Help volunteers gathered at the Masonic Temple in Detroit to package over 1 million meals for feed the world day in cooperation with Kids Against Hunger. Five hundred thousand package swill go to local agencies like Gleaners Food Bank, and 500,000 meals will be used by Rhema International … Read more

Volunteers Partner with Motor City Blight Busters

June 10, 2012 by saydetroit

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 … Read more

A Time to Help Joins Habitat for Humanity to Clean Up Morningside Commons

May 20, 2012 by saydetroit

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 … Read more

Spring Planting and Clean Up at the DTE Energy Gardens

April 28, 2012 by saydetroit

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 … Read more

Special Christmas Home Makeover

December 13, 2011 by saydetroit

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, … Read more

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