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 Motown Soup – No 1 in 2024
A Time to Help will be making Motown Soup our first volunteer opportunity of the year. Motown Soup, a volunteer-driven nonprofit, produces and sells products such as soup and dips to benefit nonprofits and community organizations that feed the homeless and hungry. Volunteers will be working in teams packaging various mixes.
Event Date/Time: Saturday, February 3, 9:15 am to noon.
Volunteers Needed: 25
Location: Motown Soup is located at 45160 Van Dyke Ave., Utica, MI 48317 (corner of Hall Road and Van Dyke), in the lower level of Trinity Lutheran Church. Look for our ATTH sign, which will be outside the door. | Map
Parking: Free parking in lot adjacent to the church.
Attire/Other Info: All volunteers will be outfitted in aprons, hair nets/caps and food safety gloves on location. The store will be open following the project.
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/JE/volepgviu6p9y4
Questions: atimetohelp.detroit@gmail.com
NOTE: This event registration has moved to our new volunteer platform at 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.