Giving GUIDE 2018 - 2019 Guide To Connecting with Local Charities WJBK FOX 2, Gardner-White Furniture and 100.3 WNIC are proud to present the annual Giving Guide. This resource guide highlights the needs of local charitable organizations. It is designed to make it easy for you to make a difference. In this book you will find hundreds of opportunities to make an impact on our community by investing your time, goods or services during this holiday season or throughout the year. The Giving Guide connects you to those who need your help. Take some time to look through the book and get to know how you can help the agencies serving your community. The amazing nonprofit organizations in this Giving Guide do so much for so many but they can’t do it alone. You have the power to make a tremendous impact on these organizations and the countless people they serve. We thank you for making a connection with those in need in our community during this holiday season and all year long! Giving Guide • i ALPHABETICAL INDEX OF FEATURED AGENCIES A G P A Hand Up Community Action Agency 2 Gift Of A Helping Hand Charitable Trust 10 Penrickton Center for Blind Children 17 Accounting Aid Society 2 Gilda’s Club Metro Detroit 10 Play-Place Autism & All Worthy of Love 2 Gleaners Community Food Bank 10 Special Needs Center 17 American Foundation for Goodwill Industries of R Suicide Prevention 2 Greater Detroit 10 Root of the Matter 17 American Lung Association 2 H Angela Hospice 3 S HAVEN 10 Angels’ Place 3 Salvation Army of Metro Detroit 17 Heart of the Hills Players 10 Arbor Hospice 3 Seedlings Braille Books for Children 18 Horses Heal Hearts of Michigan, Inc. 11 Area Agency on Aging 1-B 3 Services to Enhance Potential 18 Hospice of Michigan 11 Art Road Nonprofit, Inc. 3 Shades of Pink Foundation 18 Humble Design 11 Arts & Scraps 3 Single Family Living Assistance League of J Non-Profit Organization 18 Southeastern Michigan 4 Jackets for Jobs, Inc. 11 Six Feet Over 18 Asthma & Allergy Foundation of America 4 JARC 11 South Lyon Area Youth Assistance 18 Avalon Village 4 JDRF Metro Detroit/ South Oakland Shelter 19 B SE Michigan Chapter 11 Special Olympics Michigan 19 Jewish Family Service 12 Sphinx Organization 19 Barbara Ann Karmanos Cancer Institute 4 Jo Elyn Nyman Anchors St. Anne’s Mead 19 Bonnell Foundation: Living Programs for Children 12 with Cystic Fibrosis 4 St. Vincent and Judson Center 12 Sarah Fisher Center 19 Boys & Girls Clubs 5 Just Ask Foundation, Inc. 12 St. Vincent de Paul 20 Boys Hope Girls Hope of Detroit 5 K Susan G. Komen C Greater Detroit 20 Kadima 12 Camp Casey 5 Kids Kicking Cancer 12 T CARE House of Oakland County 5 The Bottomless Toy Chest 20 Career Dress 5 L The Fowler Center for Catholic Charities of Southeast Michigan 5 Latino Family Services 13 Outdoor Learning 20 Children With Hair Loss 6 M The Heat and Warmth Fund (THAW) 21 Children’s Miracle Network 6 The Lake House 21 Macomb County City of Garden City Our Warming Center 13 Tigerlily Cat Rescue 21 HOME Pantry 6 Macomb Food Program 13 Travelers Aid Society of Common Ground 6 Metropolitan Detroit 21 Make-A-Wish Michigan 13 Community Housing Network 6 Turning Point, Inc. 21 March of Dimes 13 COTS 6 Variety the Children’s Matrix Human Services 13 Crohn’s & Colitis Foundation 7 Charity of Detroit 21 MCREST 14 Crossroads for Youth 7 Methodist Children’s V Croswell Opera House 7 Home Society 14 Volunteers of America Michigan 22 CYO Camps 7 Michigan Pet Fund Alliance 14 W Michigan Humane Society 14 D World Education Relief 22 MIU Men’s Health Foundation 14 Detroit Goodfellows 7 World Medical Relief 22 Detroit Institute for Children 7 Muscular Dystrophy Association of Greater Detroit 15 Detroit PAL 7 Y Downtown Boxing Gym N Yad Ezra 22 Youth Program 8 NAMI Michigan 15 Yatoomas Foundation For The Kids 22 E National Kidney Foundation of Michigan 15 Eastern Market Corporation 8 Neighborhood House 15 Z Easterseals Michigan 8 Neighborhood Legal Services Michigan 15 Zaman International 22 Elli’s House 8 Neighborhood Service Organization (NSO) 15 To search by Wish List item visit Epilepsy Foundation of Michigan 8 New Day Foundation for Families 16 www.fox2detroit.com/givingguide Northeast Guidance Center 16 F FAR Therapeutic Arts and Recreation 9 O First Step 9 Oakland Family Services 16 Focus: HOPE 9 Operation Get Down, Inc. 16 Forgotten Harvest 9 Operation Graduation & Jalen Rose Leadership Academy 17 Freedom House Detroit 9 Friends for Animals of Metro Detroit 9 ii • Giving Guide Giving Guide • 1 A HAND UP COMMUNITY ACCOUNTING AID SOCIETY AMERICAN FOUNDATION FOR ACTION AGENCY 3031 W. Grand Blvd. (Suite 470) SUICIDE PREVENTION 14046 Bringard, Detroit, MI 48205 Detroit, MI 48202 37637 Five Mile Rd. (#187) CONTACT: Zolita Brown CONTACT: Harry Cook, Controller Livonia, MI 48154 PHONE: 313-520-1541 PHONE: 313-556-1920 x1207 CONTACT: Steve Windom [email protected] [email protected] PHONE: 810-730-2667 www.accountingaidsociety.org A Hand Up Community Action Agency was created to [email protected] provide support to those in the community who have Accounting Aid Society has been offering free tax and www.AFSP.org/Michigan financial services to taxpayers and small businesses in experienced trauma. A Hand Up’s mission is to improve AFSP is a voluntary health organization that gives those the quality of life for individuals who have experienced Detroit and southeast Michigan for more than 45 years. We use taxes to build relationships and relationships affected by suicide a nationwide community empowered or are affected by trauma/violence. A Hand Up also by research, education and advocacy to take action provides awareness, prevention services, and training to build futures. Our programs and services include individual income tax preparation, financial coaching, against this leading cause of death. AFSP is dedicated to the Metro-Detroit area on dealing with trauma and to saving lives and bringing hope to those affected by violence (i.e. anti-bully, domestic violence). tax debt relief and IRS dispute resolutions. Plus sound financial management practices for small businesses. suicide. AREAS SERVED: Wayne County, Oakland County, Through a combination of coaching, education and AREAS SERVED: State of Michigan, Wayne County, Macomb County individual actions, Accounting Aid Society touched the Oakland County, Macomb County, Livingston County, AGES SERVED: All lives of more than 27,000 in 2018 by delivering more Monroe County, Washtenaw County, St. Clair County, than 58,000 services, which facilitated an economic Genesee County, Lapeer County WISH LIST: impact of $27 million to the region. AGES SERVED: 12-99 Gift cards (Target, Meijer, Kroger, Walmart), Gas Cards AREAS SERVED: Wayne County, Oakland County, Free event venues for fundraising. Macomb County, Livingston County WISH LIST: Auction items (baskets, tickets, services, gift certificates) Volunteers. We need all level of volunteers. From AGES SERVED: Adults, taxpayers, renters and dedicated, state-wide members of our Board or White printer paper homeowners who meet lower income guidelines; and, Directors, to day-of event volunteers. We have a large School supplies for after school program/back to school small business owners with less than $250,000 in annual need for education/programming volunteers - to get rally receipts. trained, go out in the community, and deliver our life- Audio visual equipment (screens, speakers, projector, WISH LIST: saving education. We have ways to help those how have microphone) Volunteers been affected by suicide as well. Office space Snacks and bottled water for more than 500 volunteers VOLUNTEERS ACCEPTED? Grant Writer at 20+ tax sites Yes, our agency accepts volunteers. Toiletries Auction items for annual gala VOLUNTEER OPPORTUNITIES: Board of Directors, Web designer Committee Chairs, Committee Members, Event Planning VOLUNTEERS ACCEPTED? Committee Members, Day-of Event Volunteers. VOLUNTEERS ACCEPTED? Yes, our agency accepts volunteers. Volunteers are not needed at this time. AGE OF VOLUNTEERS: Adults and children 12 and up VOLUNTEER OPPORTUNITIES: Volunteers are the (children must be accompanied by an adult) cornerstone of our programs and services, and we depend on volunteers year-round. Options include: - Tax prep volunteers (training provided) AMERICAN LUNG ASSOCIATION - Financial coaches (training provided) 1475 E. Twelve Mile Rd. - Pro bono CPAs, attorneys, Enrolled Agents (for Low Madison Heights, MI 48071 Income Taxpayer clinic) - Administrative assistants, phone appointment agents, CONTACT: Maureen Rovas IT assistants PHONE: 248-784-2000 AGE OF VOLUNTEERS: Adults 18 and older [email protected] www.lung.org From our first breath to our last, our lives are defined ALL WORTHY OF LOVE by the simple act of breathing. But for far too many, breathing is anything but simple. Tobacco smoke, 2844 Livernois Rd. (PO Box 99067) polluted air and lung diseases such as lung cancer, COPD, Troy, MI 48099 asthma and others threaten our lungs and lives. Our CONTACT: Lindsey Fischer Sullivan vision is a world free of lung disease. Our mission is to PHONE: 313-923-7477 save lives by improving lung health and preventing lung [email protected] disease through research, education and advocacy. www.allworthyoflove.org AREAS SERVED: State of Michigan All Worthy of Love is an anti-trafficking organization. AGES SERVED: All ages We are reaching and rescuing slaves through weekly WISH LIST: outreach to individuals entangled in prostitution because we believe all are worthy of love! Executive leaders and professional interested in local leadership positions to expand outreach within AREAS SERVED: State of Michigan, Wayne County, Southeast Michigan. Patients and caregivers who have Oakland County, Macomb County been touched by lung disease to share their stories with AGES SERVED: All Ages others and to participate in American Lung Association events and planning committees.