Articles tagged: charity
food & grocery: Muscular Dystrophy Association Lock-Up - getting arrested for a good cause
Posted: May 22, 2013There's a warrant out for my arrest, and I need your help to raise bail! Fortunately, it's for a good cause. And my "jail" on June 13, the day of the Muscular Dystrophy Association's annual ... Read more »
food & grocery: Frugal Friday at Grizzly Peak Brewing Co. - split a pizza or enjoy bread pudding for $5 per person
Posted: Feb 15, 2013My friend Ruth Kraut "won" me last fall at Gimme Shelter, the primary fundraising event for Alpha House, which provides shelter and other support services to homeless families. I had donated a gift certificate to ... Read more »
recipe: Ann Arbor Tailgates - Try a Baked Potato Chip recipe from a cookbook to support Alpha House
Posted: Dec 12, 2011Buy a cookbook and help the homeless. Alpha House — a shelter for homeless families in Washtenaw County — has published a cookbook just in time for holiday shopping: Ann Arbor Tailgates: Your Favorite Recipes. ... Read more »
Warm the Children campaign returns, aims to serve 3,000 kids in the area
Posted: Oct 09, 2011Looking outside, the changing leaves are beautiful, but also a reminder that cold temperatures are quickly on their way. Unfortunately, a lot of kids in our area won’t be prepared. That is why AnnArbor.com is ... Read more »
Faith: Church fills 100 backpacks for needy local students
Posted: Aug 17, 2011It’s that time of year again, when our city’s population increases by about 35,000, and you’re inundated with back to school ads. At many local churches in Ann Arbor, this means one of the congregations' ... Read more »
Column: You can help Ann Arbor's Avalon Housing win an orchard to feed its residents
Posted: May 17, 2011I'm declaring that today is Mitzvah Day! A mitzvah (pronounced MITZ-vuh) is literally translated from the Hebrew as "commandment," but it's taken to mean "good deed." And this is an easy mitzvah to perform: Please ... Read more »
Opinion: Seeing firsthand how Warm the Children helps those many kids in need
Posted: Nov 29, 2010We all have our own unique examples of what Washtenaw County is about. Many of my impressions about this community come from talking to so many business owners here for my job as business news ... Read more »
Non-profit organization looks for new Ann Arbor location due to forced move off Washtenaw County property
Posted: Jul 17, 2010A brown, nondescript building on the Washtenaw County Service Center campus at Hogback and Washtenaw doesn’t look like much — no more than an afterthought among a few mismatched old buildings that remain on the property. In fact, ... Read more »
Opinion: Wonderful charity needs the community's help
Posted: Jul 11, 2010I have been a consistent supporter of the “House By The Side Of The Road” - the only organization in Washtenaw County that provides free clothing and household items to the needy in the area ... Read more »
Opinion: There is no ‘social justice’ in government programs
Posted: Jun 13, 2010It is trendy for many who support the latest wave of government-sponsored social programs to use the concept of "Social Justice" as justification. Let's examine this considering three constituencies, those pushing the agenda, those who ... Read more »
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neighborhood news, with video: Pioneer High School student starts online charity
Posted: May 21, 2010The idea for Damian McGlothlin's new charity is, oddly enough, similar to online movie rental business Netflix.The Pioneer High School junior wanted to start a charity where people could use a website to donate, picking and choosing where ... Read more »
Why on this night are millions of people going hungry?
Posted: Mar 30, 2010I don't offer a traditional Seder [SAY-der] at Passover, the eight-day holiday which began at sundown last night and commemorates the Israelites' exodus from slavery in Egypt. I'm always about the food, secular creature that ... Read more »
Warm the Children needs your help to reach its year-end goal
Posted: Dec 26, 2009Want to donate to Warm the Children? Download a donation form. Letters have been coming in from volunteers and recipients alike praising the Warm the Children campaign this year. But there is still more to ... Read more »
Warm the Children campaign approaches $100,000 mark, but still a long way to go
Posted: Dec 06, 2009Want to help? Download the donation coupon. This year’s Warm the Children fund-raising campaign is approaching the $100,000 mark, but there is still a long way to go. “To date we have received $96,496.65 in ... Read more »
Ann Arbor Warm the Children founder never imagined program would endure, grow as it has
Posted: Nov 29, 2009Want to help? Download the donation coupon. When Cathy O’Donnell approached her bosses at The Ann Arbor News to sponsor a program that would put warm clothing on the backs of the area’s poor children, ... Read more »
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