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DLA Kids Celebrate Tigers Opening Weekend

Happy Opening Day! Today’s festivities are just the start of the excitement for the Tigers Opening Weekend. On Sunday, kids from the Y Detroit Leadership Academy will join nearly 200 others to promote a healthy lifestyle for children at the Detroit Tigers’ Kids Opening Day. They will demonstrate exercises before the game and enjoy an…

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Amy Kuras

April 5, 2013

Youth Development

Eat Out, Help a Family Have a Christmas

Want to keep your kitchen clean before the big Thanksgiving feast? Olga’s Kitchen is donating a portion of sales on Wednesday, Nov. 21 to the Metro Youth YMCA I Can Achieve program’s Adopt-A-Family project. Diners need to present the attached flyer for the donation to be registered.

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Amy Kuras

November 20, 2012

Social Responsibility / Youth Development

Volunteers Build Playground for Y School

What once was a dreary stretch of parking lot is now a colorful playground for children at the YMCA’s Detroit Innovation Academy thanks to the hard work of hundreds of volunteers from Mercedes-Benz Financial Services, the Kaboom! nonprofit and the generosity of Y donors.

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Amy Kuras

October 11, 2012

Social Responsibility / Youth Development

Shopping Days to Benefit Swim Program

Shoppers can enjoy high-end retail in downtown Detroit and benefit the Detroit Swims Urban Swim Initiative, thanks to the Somerset Collection’s CityLoft and Downtown Detroit Days event this weekend. Five percent of sales from the weekend event will go toward the YMCA’s goal of ensuring water survival skills for all children in Detroit.

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Amy Kuras

July 24, 2012

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DLA Kids Celebrate Tigers Opening Weekend

Eat Out, Help a Family Have a Christmas

Volunteers Build Playground for Y School

Shopping Days to Benefit Swim Program