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Social Responsibility

Adopt-a-Family at the Y

Support the YMCA of Metropolitan Detroit’s Adopt-a-Family campaign to provide Christmas gifts and a week of groceries for families in need this holiday season.
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November 8, 2023
Healthy Living / Social Responsibility

Five hundred pounds and counting

The Carls Family YMCA recently initiated its annual food drive and has accumulated more than 500 pounds of nonperishable items that will benefit two community charities. The food drive kicked off on Thanksgiving morning and will run over the next several weeks. Both Community Sharing and Active Faith, local community health centers that have food pantries…
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Meagan Scaringe

December 1, 2014
Social Responsibility / Youth Development

Stuff-A-Backpack Returns

Remember how exciting it was to get fresh new school supplies at the beginning of each year? The smell of a fresh pack of crayons, the satisfaction of writing with a perfectly sharp new pencil, or the potential of uncreased, tidy, blank notebooks is a joyful memory for many of us. Providing those supplies can…
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Amy Kuras

August 2, 2014
Social Responsibility

There’s Still Time to Stuff A Backpack

Prospective members can donate a backpack, lunchbox or other essential school supplies to the YMCA and join for $25 through Aug. 31. Donation stay in the local communities in each branch and help children in need, including those who have left their homes due to domestic violence.
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Amy Kuras

August 28, 2013
Social Responsibility

Y Gives Three Families a Christmas

In memory of Sarah Tolbert, a dedicated volunteer at the Detroit Leadership Academy who died earlier this year, her family and the teens from the MY-Y program adopted three families at the Detroit Leadership Academy this Christmas.
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Amy Kuras

December 20, 2012
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

Pizza Day To Raise Funds for Family

Youth who participate in the I CAN ACHEIVE program are giving back by helping a needy family this holiday season. On Thursday, Nov. 15th, from 11 a.m. to 11 p.m., Shield’s Pizza on 25101 Telegraph Road in Southfield will donate a percentage of food purchases to the YMCA I CAN ACHIEVE program’s Adopt-a-Family fund.
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Amy Kuras

November 14, 2012
Social Responsibility

Project Stuff a Backpack Shoulders School Supply Costs

The YMCA of Metropolitan Detroit, as well as its generous members, is stepping forward to help families deal with the challenge of equipping their children for the new school year. At each Y location, they’ve been spending the month of August collecting donations of new backpacks, lunchboxes, and school supplies like crayons and notebooks from…
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Amy Kuras

August 30, 2012