[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Your generous mitten and glove donations go to benefit the following charities of Michigan – this is a partial list:
Alternatives for Girls
Alternatives For Girls’ mission is to help homeless and high-risk girls and young women avoid violence, teen pregnancy and exploitation, and help them to explore and access the support, resources and opportunities necessary to be safe, to grow strong and to make positive choices in their lives.
The Children’s Center of Wayne County
The Children’s Center leads the way in providing an integrated approach to community mental health that treats the whole child and the whole family.Together with our community partners, we offer meaningful solutions that address mental, physical and behavioral health, abuse and neglect, and poverty challenges currently faced by over 100,000 children in the Greater Detroit area.
COTS – Coalition on Temporary Shelter
Founded in 1982, Coalition On Temporary Shelter (COTS) is a private, non-profit organization that provides emergency shelter, transitional housing, as well as comprehensive support services for the homeless and at-risk population. COTS’ mission is to alleviate homelessness by providing an array of services that enable people to achieve self-sufficiency and obtain quality affordable housing. COTS provides more than 40,000 nights of emergency shelter for more than 2,000 men women and children annually. COTS also exists to advocate for long-term solutions to the problems of homelessness.
Covenant House of Michigan
Covenant House Michigan is a faith-based nonprofit organization that provides hope to homeless, runaway and at-risk youth ages 13-22. We provide shelter, educational and vocational programs, as well as other support services, to help overcome hurdles such as homelessness, unemployment, inadequate education, violence, drugs and gangs. Our goal is to redirect them onto a path toward meaningful and successful adulthood.
Crossroads of Michigan
The purpose of Crossroads’ ministry is to care for any person in need by providing counseling, advocacy and material assistance when possible and appropriate, and responding to other human needs in the community as they are enabled to do so.
Gleaner’s Food Bank – Backpack Program
Gleaners partners with local schools to distribute backpacks filled with nutritious food for the weekend to children who rely on free and reduced fee school meals during the week.
Latino Family Services
Their mission is to provide and coordinate comprehensive Human services to residents of Wayne County with particular emphasis on its Latino residents.
Michigan Veteran’s Foundation
The Michigan Veterans Foundation is a non-profit agency. Their main project is the Detroit Veterans Center. The DVC provides the skills and confidence needed for homeless veterans to break the cycle of homelessness and return to independent living.
Ruth Ellis Center
Provides short-term and long-term residential safe space and support services for runaway, homeless and at-risk gay, lesbian, bi-attractional, transgender and questioning youth in Detroit and Southeastern Michigan.
St. Aloysius-Canticle Café
St. Aloysius is situated in a widely diverse area of downtown Detroit. We work with all of the people in the neighborhood to address needs of companionship, food, clothing, and emergency shelter. We also focus on the critical needs of the tenants of many low-income housing buildings in the area. Our parish nurse works to address the Health and Wholeness issues within our community-at-large. Recently, the physical plant of our Community Center had to close. We now attempt to provide all of these services in a smaller fashion — on the streets and in the community housing areas. This ad gentes style of ministry means we are now more focused on going to the people, rather than them coming to us.
St. Christine Christian Services
The mission of St Christine Christian Services is to help meet daily needs of some of the most vulnerable in the Brightmoor community of Detroit, assisting everyone with deep respect and dignity. We do this by serving meals two days a week in our soup kitchen, distributing bags of groceries from our food pantry, and operating a warming/cooling center where we serve coffee and donuts five days a week. We also provide use of computers for email, job searches or personal business. We also provide periodic healthcare such as flu shots, blood pressure screenings, dental care, and foot care. Finally, we distribute fresh produce from our garden behind the office center.
St. Patrick Senior Center
St. Patrick Senior Center has been improving the quality of life for seniors in Detroit for over 30 years. They are dedicated to enabling seniors to live rich and independent lives by providing a wide range of services, activities, and classes, as well as the support of a caring community.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]