Featured Image: Brick ASP participants with a springtime treat!

Marching Into Spring!

This month, CAN has been busy upgrading our community centers to provide better facilities and services to our visitors. We're thrilled to announce the completion of several exciting projects, including kitchen updates at multiple locations and the opening of a new library at Bryant Community Center. These renovated spaces are sure to enhance the overall experience of our programs and services. Additionally, we're proud to share that our recent Diaper Drive was a huge success. Thanks to the generosity of our donors, we'll be able to provide essential baby items to the families who rely on our services. For more information about these updates, read on below!



Check Out What's Cooking!

The kitchens at 4 of our community centers got some exciting upgrades!

Green Baxter Court, Hikone, and Bryant Community Centers all received brand new fridges that will allow us to store more perishable items in our emergency food pantries! They also upgraded some kitchen supplies like pots, pans, utensils, microwaves, blenders and more to improve how we cook meals and snacks for our educational program participants! Thank you to Galens Medical Society for helping us make this happen!

Can you tell we are excited to get cookin' with these new tools?!

Our Brick Community Center kitchen got a full upgrade!

Thanks to Galens Medical Society, Rotary Club of Ann Arbor, and Kiwanis Club of Ann Arbor, Brick was able to improve their kitchen space with a new stove, dishwasher, sink, and cabinets! What started as a kitchen without even a way to cook, now is a space that has everything our staff need to make delicious dinners!

Bryant's Library Update

Did you know March is Reading Month?

It felt like the perfect time to give the library at our Bryant Community Center a makeover! In partnership with The Jack and Jill Foundation who supplied our library with tablets for reading and our friend Yodit Johnson who supplied it with furniture, Bryant staff created the...

Black Excellence Library!

Each wall represents the colors of the pan-American flag. The Black Lives Matter fist decorates the room and is complimented by two surrounding "Ally Walls" that have handprints from Bryant staff and students, past and present!

We are blown away by the support from you all during March's Diaper Drive!

It is truly amazing all that we can accomplish when the community comes together for those in need! With your help, we were able to stock our pantries with over 150 boxes of diapers and other baby items like wipes and rash cream! Now, instead of having to say "Unfortunately, we don't have those items right now", we can say "Yes! What size do you need?" when families come to shop at our sites looking for diapers!

Thank you for helping us stock up on these essential items!

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