MFD is 10 years old this month!
Your help is needed more than ever before
to warm hands this winter.
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Covid-19 has caused MFD to pivot from public collections to a focus on fundraising this season. |
Dear Friend -
Every Autumn since 2010, as the leaves start falling from the trees, you have seen Mittens for Detroit collection boxes appear in your favorite restaurant, coffee shop, store, library, or at your office. But not this year. Because of COVID-19 health concerns, we are unable to hold our public collection.
COVID-19 or not, it's getting cold out there. You've probably been looking for your mittens and gloves. Tens of thousands of Detroiters need pairs to warm their hands every morning. More than one-quarter million pairs have been collected and distributed to these folks in our first 10 seasons.
The model for MFD has been based on community support, with 32,000 pairs of new mittens and gloves donated every year. We were not sure what to do when the pandemic broke out and the writing was on the wall. We thought about simply closing the doors for a year, to wait until next year to continue our work.
Facts are facts - it's cold out there, and thousands of kids, teens, and adults need gloves. The only way for MFD to get them on hands this year, is to pivot to fundraising and purchasing pairs from our wholesale partners. The need is huge, and people depend on MFD and you to help them stay warm. You are big part of our first 10 years' success - and we need you now to step up once again.
We hope that you can find a way to help us as winter quickly approaches. Perhaps by making your year-end donation earlier than usual. Or purchasing something from our amazing Art4Gloves virtual fine art gallery and sale. Maybe you'll throw on some good shoes and take part in our Virtual Halloween Fun Run or Walk or Creep or Crawl. If you give to United Way, you might start designating that donation to MFD. And if you shop at Target and belong to their Target Circle, you can once again help us win a large grant from them as we move into the holiday season. These easy ways for you to help, and they will have a great impact on our ability to meet the needs of others. Read all about these options below.
We need you. More than ever. You can help us raise funds so that we can buy the mittens and gloves now. You can make a difference, and we hope that you will.
Thank you for all of your support, year after year!
Warmly,
Wendy Shepherd, Executive Director, Mittens for Detroit
and
The MFD Board of Directors
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Art4Gloves, A Virtual Fine Art Gallery & Sale is Held Over through 11/16!
Art4Gloves - A Virtual Fine Art Gallery & Sale, a benefit celebrating Mittens for Detroit's 10th Year. Showcasing 18 local and national artists from 6 states, 75 originals and prints available for purchase, and 150 items in the inventory. Mediums include painting, ceramics, drawing, sculpture, encaustic, photography, and designer jewelry. Prices range from prints for $120 to a huge museum-quality painting for $75,000.
40% of proceeds from the show will provide new mittens and gloves for Detroiters in need.
When you buy art at Art4Gloves, you will not only be making your life more beautiful, you will be purchasing with purpose.
No admission or registration required! Come as you are, when you like - and be prepared to be wowed by the gallery. There's art for seasoned - and new - collectors. Please share this gallery and sale with your friends and colleagues.
Click here to view the Catalog and enter the Gallery
Want to learn more about the individual artists? Check out their videos at
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Scare up some Halloween Fun... and Gloves!
MFD's 10th Birthday is this Halloween... and we need YOU to help us celebrate!
Our Virtual Halloween Fun Run or Walk or Creep or Crawl is a great way for you and your family, friends, school, co-workers, neighbors, and any other friendly spirits to have a great time while doing good!
Whether you walk, run (from zombies?!), or take a ride on your broomstick, every dollar raised will help purchase new warm gloves for people whose hands would be very cold without them this winter.
Very family friendly, very fun, very positive way to celebrate Halloween this year. Parade the neighborhood, downtown, your local watering holes, or just back and forth from your couch to the 'fridge!
Don't let COVID-19 suck the fun out of your Halloween!
Costumes not required... but DEFINITELY encouraged!
REGISTER HERE TODAY!
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Vote for Mittens for Detroit in your Target Circle Account by 12/31/20!
Have you been racking up votes in your Target Circle account with all of your pandemic, Halloween, and holiday Target runs? Here is what you can do with those votes to help Mittens for Detroit!
We are honored and excited to have been chosen for the 2nd time as one of 5 Metro Detroit nonprofits participating in a special charitable giving campaign, sponsored and funded by Target. Last year, we came in 2nd place, with your votes granting us nearly $5,700!
If you are in the Metro Detroit market, please help us make the most of this incredible opportunity. Every online or in-store purchase earns you a vote that counts towards helping MFD receive a portion of the available Target funds for our mission to warm as many hands as possible in Detroit. Super easy to do, doesn't cost you a dime! Just VOTE!
You have until 12/31/20 to vote, Metro Detroiters - so don't delay - click Target.com/Circle
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Do you GiveUnited?
Now you can designate MFD for your donation!
Mittens for Detroit is a Designations Eligible Partner for the United Way for Southeastern Michigan! This is amazing, and we are greatly appreciative.
This means that your designated donations through your paychecks will be sent to Mittens for Detroit. This is a terrific opportunity for you to help us, week by week, paycheck by paycheck. Check with your payroll or human resources personnel to learn more about how to choose Mittens for Detroit for your deduction.
If you GiveUnited, please consider MFD when making your donation designations. Thank you, United Way of Southeastern Michigan!
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