Your generosity is keeping hands warm this year... meeting the need, pair by pair!

Your generosity is keeping hands warm this year...

meeting the need, pair by pair!

Dear Friend -

The Mittens Season is rolling along, with more of our Distribution Partners receiving their boxes of new mittens and gloves. While we are not able to hold our annual community collection due to Covid-19 health concerns, handmade and store-bought pairs are coming in from you with your mailed pairs and financial donations. Every dollar helps, and every pair helps. Thank you so much! We have distributed about 6,000 pairs so far this season. YOU are making a difference!

Since October, we have been very fortunate to be able to purchase more than 2,000 pairs of warm gloves with grants we have received. Hundreds of senior citizens will receive pairs purchased with a very generous grant from the Mary Thompson Foundation. Next week we will be receiving grant funds from Eagles for Children, once again enabling us to purchase new warm pairs for Head Start and school children. The request for warm gloves from Michigan Veterans Foundation (an 11 year Distribution Partner) was funded by a wonderful grant from the Detroit Tigers Foundation. More on that below!

We have had several Collection Partners pivot from MittenRaisers to hosting Giving Pages to help raise funds to buy warm pairs. This is a very easy way to involve remote workers who want to once again donate to Mittens for Detroit - many of whom look forward to their annual collection box or mitten tree. A Giving Page is branded with your logo and information, and it is free of charge to you and MFD both. If you are interested in a Giving Page for your office, company, or organization, please contact me!

We need you and your support. More than ever. Your financial donations help us not only keep the doors open, we can purchase exactly the size pairs that we need... especially for the teens and adults. When we receive grants, we add additional donation funds to the purchase to allow us to order even more pairs at great prices. Every dollar makes a difference - and your donations have a great impact on those who will be facing the bitter cold which we know is just weeks away.

Thank you for all of your support, year after year!

Warmly,

Wendy Shepherd, Executive Director, Mittens for Detroit

and

The MFD Board of Directors

Detroit Tigers Foundation celebrates Veterans Day with new gloves for Michigan Veterans Foundation

We celebrated Veterans Day at the Michigan Veterans Foundation with the Detroit Tigers Foundation on 11/6/20. A generous grant allowed MFD to purchase 450 pairs - the entire request from MVF. Thank you, Detroit Tigers, for your kindness! View the video featured on MLB.com - MFD comes in about halfway through the video. Go, Tigers!!

It's almost too late to make your Art4Gloves, A Virtual Fine Art Gallery & Sale purchase!

Art4Gloves - A Virtual Fine Art Gallery & Sale, is 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! Please share this gallery and sale with your friends and colleagues.

bit.ly/MFD_Art4GlovesCatalog

Want to learn more about the individual artists?

http://bit.ly/MFD_Art4GlovesArtists

After your next Target run,

vote for MFD 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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