More than 500 Ford employees have signed up with Ford Volunteer Corps to participate in community service. Yesterday these Good Samaritans renovated non-profit shelters and family centers at 32 different locations throughout southeast Michigan. Additionally, the Ford Motor Company Fund provided $57,000 in grants to purchase necessary tools and equipment for the project.
“We’re utilizing our people and our resources to lay the foundation for a brighter future in our communities,” said Jim Vella, president of Ford Motor Company Fund and Community Services, in a press release. “Children and families are the back bone of strong communities. By helping them succeed, we’re helping our communities grow and prosper.”
The non profit organizations in southeast Michigan that received up to $5,000 in fellowship for yesterday’s project are:
- Arts & Scraps, Detroit – Organize and inventory robots materials
- Focus: Hope, Detroit – Create family literacy area at Center for Children
- Girl Scouts of SE Michigan, Detroit – Assemble learning kits for girls
- Grandmont Rosedale Development, Detroit – Transform vacant house into a family’s home
- Habitat for Humanity, Monroe – Install flooring and hang kitchen cabinets
- Junior Achievement, Detroit – Assist students with financial literacy exercises
- Matrix Human Services, Detroit – Pack baby shower baskets with infant necessities
- Methodist Children’s Home, Redford – Clean, paint and create a sensory wall
- Northville Community Foundation, Northville – Secure flooring in Maybury Farm barn
- Penrickton Center, Taylor – Restore resonance boards and repaint murals
- Ruth Ellis Center, Detroit – Paint residential facility
- Salvation Army, Denby Center, Detroit – Refresh residential cottages
- Starfish Family Services, Inkster – Participate in literacy activities with children
- Vista Maria, Dearborn Heights – Paint interior common areas and living quarters for girls
- World Medical Relief, Detroit – Assemble basic hygiene kits
Scores of Ford employees get together on six continents in September for Ford Global Week of Caring. They provide community service to the citizens of the area.
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