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Approved Nonprofit Agencies Southeast Michigan Ford Motor Company salaried employees may voluntarily spend up to 16 hours a year, on company time, with approved non-profit organizations (listed below). Before you select a nonprofit agency, be sure to review the 16-CSP rules and guidelines. Quick searchAngel's Place, Southfield, Mich.
Agency Description: Angel's Place was founded in 1992 to respond to the overwhelming need for Christian, people-centered homes and services for men and women with developmental disabilities, whose parents can no longer care for them. Eight homes are located in Oakland County and one home each in Wayne County and Macomb County. Angel's Place homes offer a Christian family environment of love and compassion, coupled with an atmosphere of acceptance, dignity, well-being and the potential for personal growth and acceptance. Opportunities: Painting, landscaping (weeding, hedging flowers, planting, mowing), and spring clean up at the homes. Arts & Scraps, Detroit, Mich.
Agency Description: Arts & Scraps is a non-profit organization that recycles industrial scraps into inexpensive creative material, and provides educational programming for children and the adults serving them. Arts & Scraps recycles 22 tons of material annually, serving over 200,000 children. Opportunities: Preparing and packaging art kits for children's groups. Occasionally there are building or painting projects. Boys and Girls Republic, Farmington, Mich.
Agency Description: Michigan's oldest residential youth treatment center, established in 1890, evolving over the years as a community resource for youth and families, providing residential treatment and supervised independent living for at-risk youth and outpatient counseling services for adults, youth and children. Facility houses 80 residents located on an 80 acre campus in Farmington Hills. They provide a year round academic and vocational training program, an independent living program, and a therapeutic recreation program for youths. They also offer custom-designed Adventure Challenge Programs to school, community, and corporate groups. Opportunities: Landscaping, planting flowers, spreading wood chips on ropes course and landscape areas, waterproofing wooden bridges, cleaning/housekeeping. Coalition on Temporary Shelter, Detroit, Mich.
Agency Description: St. Peter's Episcopal Church in Corktown. In 1983, COTS purchased it's current facility at 26 Peterboro and began the tradition of providing emergency shelter, meals, clothing, and comprehensive support services for homeless women, children and men. Today COTS has a staff of more than 90 and serves thousands of homeless people annually at three locations. COTS exists to alleviate homelessness by providing shelter, food and clothing, as well as job search, GED, AA/NA, life management, parenting, and GED programs, which enable people to achieve economic self-sufficiency and decent, affordable housing. COTS is committed to advocate for long-term solutions to the problem of homelessness. Opportunities: Full-day events for painting; half-day events to prepare meals, work on mailings. Focus: HOPE, Detroit, Mich.
Agency Description: Focus:HOPE is a civil and human rights organization founded in 1968 by Father William T. Cunningham and Eleanor M. Josaitis. Focus:HOPE unites a multicultural community in common efforts to overcome poverty, injustice and build racial harmony. Over the years, Focus:HOPE has initiated practical solutions to the problems of hunger, economic disparity, and inadequate education. Answers can be found in Focus:HOPE's technology training and education programs, and its partnerships with community organizations, universities and corporations. Opportunities: Working at the food warehouse. Teams will work repackaging food boxes to be delivered to homebound seniors and soup kitchens. Painting; building maintenance. Gleaners Community Food Bank, Detroit, Mich.
Agency Description: Gleaners Community Food Bank is a vital link between available food and those who need it most. Local and national producers have surplus food that may otherwise go to waste for lack of a way to safely and efficiently bring it to market. Human service agencies face tight budgets and increasing demands for services. Gleaners expertise and facilities bring these valuable resources together to help ease the problem of hunger. Gleaners secures, stores, and distributes food to local non-profit agencies and charities, that directly feed the poor and hungry including: Soup kitchens, shelters, etc. Over 20 million pounds of food are handled each year. Opportunities: Packaging various types of food for distribution to other non-profit agencies; redistributing large containers of surplus food into smaller distributable sizes. Sorting of canned goods. Greening of Detroit, Detroit, Mich.
Agency Description: The Greening of Detroit exists to improve the quality of life in Detroit by guiding and inspiring the reforestation of Detroit's neighborhoods, boulevards, and parks through tree planting projects and educational programs. The Greening of Detroit seeks to return the city of Detroit to its former glory as "The City of Trees" and "The Paris of the Midwest" by reforesting the city through tree planting projects and by using environmental education to generate the resolve, the necessary support, and the essential abilities necessary to ensure a safe, sustainable ecosystem for healthy trees within the city of Detroit. Through its work to enhance Detroit's urban forest and educate its communities, The Greening strives to improve the quality of life for those who live and work in the city; use trees and vegetation to enhance community pride; cultivate appreciation of the social, economic, environmental and aesthetic value of trees and community forests; promote volunteerism among residents of the city, suburbanites who frequent the city for work and recreation and corporations doing business in the city; create an ethic of care within corporate and individual residents of the city, thus ensuring proper maintenance of all tree planting projects; and encourage environmentally responsible development of the city which should include preservation, creation and expansion of green space. Opportunities: Planting of trees at schools, parks and other parts of the city of Detroit. Last of spring planting will be done on Saturday, 06/07. No plantings during the summer. Autumn plantings resume in October. Habitat for Humanity - Detroit, Detroit, Mich.
Agency Description: Housing and reviving impoverished Detroit neighborhoods one home, one family at a time. They offer their partner families an opportunity to help themselves, to own a decent, affordable home of their own, which they pay for and maintain. Partner families invest hundreds of hours of "sweat equity" into building their homes and the homes of others. The houses are sold at no profit and with no interest charged. Mortgage payments are placed in a fund used to finance additional houses. Volunteers provide the labor, and individual, church, and corporate sponsors provide the money and materials to build Habitat houses. Habitat's goal is to improve the physical condition of the neighborhood as well as the social conditions of the residents. Opportunities: Activities include site preparation, landscaping, fencing and home building. Penrickton Center for Blind Children, Taylor, Mich.
Agency Description: Penrickton Center for Blind Children was established in the City of Taylor, Michigan in 1952 by three families (Penman, Ricker and Wigginton) as a day nursery for blind pre-schoolers. Through the years, Penrickton Center has constantly changed to meet the needs of visually impaired children in the Metropolitan Detroit area. In the late 1950’s, a 5-day residential program was added to better serve children in the community. In the early 1960’s, a program was initiated to serve blind children with one additional handicap because no such program existed to meet these special needs. Currently, Penrickton Center specializes in treating blind children ages one through twelve with a least one additional handicap such as deafness, cerebral palsy, brain damage, developmental delay and seizures. Opportunities: Cleaning toys and therapy equipment that the children use, ensuring toys are safe and have all their pieces. Washing storage units, cleaning kitchen shelves and cupboards. Washing windows inside and outside. Yard work (dependent on weather). Painting bedrooms. Salvation Army, Southfield, Mich.
Agency Description: The Salvation Army is an integral part of the Christian Church, although distinctive in government and practice. The Army's doctrine follows the mainstream of Christian belief and its articles of faith emphasize God's saving purposes. Its objects are 'the advancement of the Christian religion ...of education, the relief of poverty, and other charitable objects beneficial to society or the community of mankind as a whole. ' The international movement was founded in 1865 by William Booth in London, England and has become the world's most recognized charity. Opportunities: Weeding, debris clean-up and landscaping projects at Acres of Hope complex. Painting, refurbishing and warehouse sorting projects. The Harbor Light at Acres of Hope uses volunteer assistance at lunch. Trimming of trails, painting signs and buildings and minor grounds and building maintenance and repairs at Camp Echo Grove. Starfish Family Services, Inkster, Mich.
Agency Description: Starfish Family Services is a private, nonprofit agency in Inkster serving Southeastern Michigan, with a focus on Western Wayne County. We have 19 programs assisting 7,000 children and their families. Together with our community and our dedicated board of directors, we are committed to helping families create sustainable success. Rather than simply trying to aid families in crisis, Starfish helps families redirect their lives onto a positive course that helps prevent problems from escalating. Our early investment approach provides families with the tools they need to learn to be successful and to eventually realize their dreams. Opportunities: STORY TIME AT STARFISH: Read to children in the Head Start preschool program at the Inkster or Dearborn Heights locations. Volunteers are asked to bring their favorite children's books (appropriate for ages 3-4) to read to the children. Music, drama and silliness can be incorporated into the readings. A DAY IN THE GARDEN / Inkster: Help prepare and plant the Kid's Club Summer Camp garden. The garden is tended to all summer by elementary-school aged children who learn about gardening and nutrition. Mulch an outdoor picnic area adjacent to the garden. Veteran's Haven Inc, Wayne, Mich.
Agency Description: A Viet Nam veteran founded the Veteran's Haven in the spring of 1994. Veteran's Haven provides direct immediate emergency services of food, clothing, counseling, job connections and transportation to 'honorably discharged' veterans that are disabled, homeless or in need. Opportunities: Grounds keeping, general maintenance, repairs. |
